Cosmos II

Spring Dance Spring Dance

A fast waltz in honor of the 2010 warm early spring in the northeastern US

Indie Pop

Together or Apart Together or Apart

About how strongly long-term love is etched into your soul

Indie Pop

Private Show Private Show

Dreamy song, written as if observing life from the outside

#7 in Acoustic Vocals

No Right No Right

People often fall in love with someone who are already attached. But our emotions don't tend to honor such constraints. This song is a ballad about such a situation.

#9 in Country-Pop

Tomorrow Has Arrived Tomorrow Has Arrived

An optimistic song insisting that life is satisfying every day if you appreciate what it has to offer

Indie Pop

Phantom Lover Phantom Lover

About a lover who arrives mysteriously and then vanishes

#15 in Classic Rock

Can You Hear My Song Can You Hear My Song

#12 in Indie

Every Minute Every Minute

Daydreaming about your lover while at work

Dance-Pop

Together in Paradise Together in Paradise

The singer is trying to lure a potential lover to an island paradise

Indie Pop

My Muse My Muse

Melodious song about the songwriter's muse and lover

Indie Pop

What Was the Chance? What Was the Chance?

Love song

#7 in Lounge

I Just Ain't Got the Time I Just Ain't Got the Time

Lament about how we're all too busy these days, leaving precious little time for recreation

Blues Rock

Guilty Guilty

Mildly comical song about a serenader who went overboard.

#12 in Blues Rock

Sunshine Sunshine

Another cosmic love song expressing admiration of a girl who radiates like our closest star

#17 in Dance-Pop

Digitized Digitized

Short ditty complaining about the conversion of images of real life into digitized form.

#2 in Comedy

Russian Heaven (Johnik's Song) Russian Heaven (Johnik's Song)

Party song about a close Russian friend from St. Petersburg, and about my favorite beer to drink when I visit there - Baltika 7, which is a European-style lager bottled in Russia.

#3 in Traditional European

Moguchij Byurokrat Moguchij Byurokrat

Song in Russian about a typical bureaucrat who acts like a tsar in his own little world

#1 in Parody

Moya Russkaya Zhena Moya Russkaya Zhena

Humorous song in Russian that compares Russian wives with wives from other countries

#11 in World General

Morskoj Almaz (Gimn Peterburgu) Morskoj Almaz (Gimn Peterburgu)

Tribute to the great city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Originally composed in 2003 in celebration of the 300th anniversary of its founding, I finally found time to make a digital recording in 2013. The lyrics are in Russian.

#4 in Electropop

Get Yourself Unplugged Get Yourself Unplugged

Hard rock song inviting the listener to a party

#3 in Garage Rock