Songs

This page lists Imbue songs. Find scratch recordings, lead sheets, scores and libretto images as they develop. All works are still in progress and are presented here for feedback. Stay tuned for experimental collaboration and deliberation.

List of All Imbue Songs (so far)

Songs are listed in default order of play.

[orchestrated sections marked with *]

• * Intro Medley
• Imbue Theme – piano transcription by Raphael Hino
• Please Don’t Let That Man Win – I was duped!

• For Starry Eyes – original lead sheet, scripted chordpro text, and scratch recording

• * Hooks – instrumental

Scratch Track 8: Hooks: vocal and piano with 105 bpm drum track thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@LumBeat

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What’s your reaction to Hooks, Take 1?

The melodies and rhythm for the four hooks:

• You Release, Be Free
• You Go Cimarron
• You Cancel the Debts
• You Deliberate

We invite feedback about melodies, rhythm, lyric, instrumentation … how many repeats in the Exodus verse, and if none, where which one to remove?

Deliberate slowing down end of each hook

We are wondering whether to slow down the tail ends of each of the four hooks to break up the steady march beat, fit the prosody of the words, and add a sweet twist to the hypnotic drone. Scratch tracks of these ideas pending.

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List of Songs, cont:

• * Rosetta Stone – Jubileed Release – chordpro lyrics, chords lead sheet in mscz and pdf; pending orchestration
  • opensheetmusic display of /home/paula/syncthing-shared-2023-10/USHIN Imbue Project/Imbue Songs/Legends and Histories of Freedom/3 Rosetta Stone/Milka Rubtsova/Rosetta Stone – after Milka editing.mscz
• * Awakening – Breath, Connect, Focus, Let Go, Discern – gathering lyrics, early lyrical ideas, research, some themes for venting, digesting and transcending
• USHIN Shapes – lead sheet, voice & ukele recording – when done will move to imbue/songs
• River Water – a capella recording for 4 voices
  • Homo neanderthalensis – Belonging, connected, on our own wild – icons of faith in the elements turning into us 3 girls and the friendly rocks
• * Exodus – Cimarron Escape – mp3s – rough scratch tracks of piano and vocals for soloist as first takes. Final versions pending for professional recording ~ June 2026.

Exodus Scratch Tracks

Scratch Track 9: End of the verse, starting with, “And it was only after .. to the end of lyrics.

Scratch Track 7: Best of May 27, “slaptrack” (see Hooks, above, for steady beat to replace 1:19 – 28, backing the lyric “cimmaron, and replacing 6:20-6:33 below. )

Scratch Track 6: Good pace for soloist

Scratch Track 4: Solo Vocals Over Sloppy Piano – fast

Scratch Track 3: Solo Lyrics Read Over Piano – very slow

Scratch Track 2:Piano and Solo Voice Faster, sounds rushed, errs

Scratch Track 1: Piano and Solo Voice Slow, irregular

• Steffi’s Waltz
• Grief – 4 voices, piano, drums, slide guitar, cello, oboe (?) recording – finished lead sheet, mp3 of chords and melody.
  • Author of poem has given approval to use
• I Still Believe (melody Starry Eyes)
• * Deliberation – Coming Together
  • Introducing imbue.im deliberation
  • Displaying face-to-face and online private connecting to platform-inclusive open deliberations.
• Medley of 4 Oratorio Stanzas: Legends and History of Freedom
  • Call for historical facts for additional lyrics – see The Last 2 Millenia
• Sing Me a Song – acapella +/- instruments