Frederick Serafim
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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.
Someday We'll Shine Someday We'll Shine
Rocker with a multi-faceted arrangement featuring various mood, key and melody changes, with strangely optimistic lyrics.
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.
Time for Change Time for Change
Hard to assign a genre to this multi-faceted mood and melody tune, featuring vocals, piano, dual lead guitars, synths, key changes, and a mostly Latin beat.
Call of the Dream Call of the Dream
Up-beat prog-rocker recalling the angst of earlier anti-war social dissent and the constant lure of selling out to the call of the American Dream.
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.
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.
Mighty Miss Andrist Mighty Miss Andrist
A touching, pretty tune from the standpoint of a very precocious young boy in love with his teacher, who ironically is a a kind but misandristic 30 year old women's libber.
Jungletown Jungletown
Upbeat alt rock n roll / Blues / R&B, regarding the urban jungle, featuring a catchy dual lead guitar hook, sax solos and non-traditional chordal progressions.
Strange Streets Strange Streets
Streets... tranquil, amusing, exciting, violent... Bass, drums, piano, 3 voice synth lead guitar.
White Life White Life
Haunting and hard hitting, mostly spoken word hip hop/symphonic rock tune decrying racism and discrimination from the standpoint of a very concerned white man.
Phantom of the Opera Phantom of the Opera
I used to do a live vocal duet version of this song with the late Catherine Clarkson, using this self-recorded backup track. We never did record the vocal rendition, and so instead I added this improvised lead guitar instrumental.
Conquest of the Conundrum Conquest of the Conundrum
Instrumental rock-electronica with some added Strat and synth guitar leads.
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.
Ultimatum Ultimatum
Jazz-rock instrumental with a great hook. Bass, drums, piano, 3 voice synth guitar.
Roar City Survival Roar City Survival
Compelling vocals and instrumentation drive this humanitarian plea.
I Remember I Remember
Majestic rock-symphonica rendering of the early days with my wife.
