Frederick Serafim
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Shadow Walking
Shadow Walking
Mystical verses flower into an uplifting, melodic chorus, depicting a couple living in the shadows and dealing constructively with inner ghosts and issues.
I'm Just a Singer
I'm Just a Singer
Cover of the most popular song from the Moody Blues 1972 #1 Billboard album, "Seventh Sojourn". The words are probably truer today than ever. In recognition of the recent passing of John Lodge.
Not of This World
Not of This World
Mostly electronic mid tempo tune with vocals and some guitar, written for people who are comfortable feeling excluded from the mainstream world.
Fulfillment
Fulfillment
Upbeat piano and synth guitar jazz-rock tune regarding life's best approach.
Friends Across Enemy Lines
Friends Across Enemy Lines
R&B tune with a breezy, lilting tempo and a exhilarating instrumental bridge, regarding the dire need for international dialogue and goodwill.
Someday We'll Shine
Someday We'll Shine
A multi-faceted arrangement featuring various mood, key and melody changes, with paradoxically optimistic lyrics, given the over-riding planetary environment.
Castle of Cards
Castle of Cards
One of my favourite arrangements with synth-guitar sax/horn hooks, some hot lead guitar, rap verse lyrics with traditional chorus vocals, and an alternative bluesy progression, portraying our disastrous western political landscape.
Science Fiction Hero
Science Fiction Hero
Science fantasy guitar / synth alt pop-rocker, with deeper implications.
Time for Change
Time for Change
Hard to assign a genre to this multi-mood and melody tune, featuring vocals, piano, dual lead guitars, synths, key changes, and a mostly Latin-ish beat.
Down From the Sky
Down From the Sky
Feel good, classic rock regarding positive karma and UFOs, featuring multiple lead guitars, piano, synths, and a bit of electronic. A prayer for benevolent, extra-terrestrial, planetary intervention.
Demented Love
Demented Love
Upbeat dark comedy featuring piano, catchy guitar riffs and non-traditional rock and roll chord sequences, regarding a disastrous romance.
Refugee Tale
Refugee Tale
Although I support the right of nations to control immigration, the harrowing allure is all on the side of the refugees. Hence this song featuring vocals, a driving bass line, some blazing guitar licks, piano and strings.
Mighty Miss Andrist
Mighty Miss Andrist
A touching, pretty tune from the standpoint of a male school teacher who's lamentably in love with a colleague, who unfortunately is a kind but misandristic 30 year old women's libber.
D'Artagnan
D'Artagnan
Instrumental Rock Symphonic depiction of Alexandre Dumas' "4th" Musketeer.
Little Life
Little Life
For anyone who's suddenly lost a pet. Great Latin beat with some very sweet lead guitar and vocal duo with Catherine Clarkson.
Black Magic Woman (Live)
Black Magic Woman (Live)
Recorded live with my Cryterion outfit as a pre-show warm up at a gig sometime around 2007. Considering how the speaker output was recorded, it eventually tweaked up quite nicely. The room had good acoustics.
Swimming With The Sharks
Swimming With The Sharks
Acoustic and electronic Rock. Scuba diving Catherine wrote the verse lyrics drawing a parallel between deep sea diving and life in general.
Angry Young Man
Angry Young Man
An explosive instrumental theme with softer melodic verses, blended together with a steady Latin beat. For the various types of angry people. Anger - sure, violence - no.
Always Love Music
Always Love Music
Rocker anthem featuring a driving bass line, layered guitars and synths and Catherine's heady lyrical edification of my otherwise simple title.
