Frederick Serafim
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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.
Alive and Well (Turmoil and Reprieve) Alive and Well (Turmoil and Reprieve)
An ominous soundscape ending in redemptive triumph.
Homeless Homeless
A touching piano and orchestral ballad regarding the plight of the homeless. Some nice lead guitar work during the end fade out. Lyrics and song story below.
Fortunate Son Fortunate Son
Cover of CCR's Fortunate Son, featuring, guitars, piano, horns, synths, bit of electronic...
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.
Beautiful Boys Beautiful Boys
Acoustic reworking of John Lennon's tune, minus the middle 8, and the title pluralized.
Since the Beginning Since the Beginning
Classical Crossover tune featuring exotic synths, harmonies and subtle key changes, evolving from mystic mellow to a buoyant R&B instrumental ending.
Old Souls Old Souls
Art-Rock exploration of mystic experience. Omens, deja vu... have we passed this way before?
Fill the Void Fill the Void
Mystic and majestic, mostly instrumental rock symphonica prelude, with just a few existential lyrics and some improvised horn / violin synth guitar solos.
Ataraxis Ataraxis
Upbeat trance featuring a main synth-brass theme and a secondary piano theme which then unite into an ultimate "peace of mind" counterpoint, in the latter part of the track.
Summer of 69 Summer of 69
I played my first paid gig in the summer of 69. I was almost 16. My rendition of this leans more towards an E Street styling. (Story behind the song continued below)
It's Only Make Believe It's Only Make Believe
Conway Twitty wrote this song in 1958 while living in Hamilton Ontario, walking distance to where I lived years later. He was unknown at that time and his manager sent him to this less competitive medium sized country music mecca to gain experience.
Born to Run Born to Run
Solo acoustic version. Sometimes I play this at parties. It's not a song you think of as being suited for acoustic styling, but Springsteen must have played it something like this when he first wrote it. Very important song!
El Paso El Paso
I was 6 years old when Marty Robbins released El Paso in 1959. It was the first song that truly impressed me and made me want to learn how to sing and play.
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.
Pretty Woman Pretty Woman
My brother asked me to record these bed tracks so that he could support a political candidate by singing his lyrics - Political Woman. Having already recorded the song, I decided I might as well use the track as well and sing the original lyrics.
Conquistador Conquistador
I always loved Procol Harum's Conguistador, especially the live version recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
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.
