straight fire 🔥

winter Playlist

Infinite happiness

Rhythm 'n' Birds

Hide and Seek

505 - arctic monkeys

iris - pastel ghosts
lyrics!

I'D LIKE TO KNOW YOU
BUT I DON'T WANT TO
SCARED OF REVEALING
THE IMAGE IS PEELING
I'VE TRIED TO FIGHT THIS
BUT YOU ARE MY WEAKNESS
THIS WORLD IS RESTRICTING
YOU MEAN EVERYTHING
I SEE YOU SO CLEARLY
I WANT YOU COMPLETELY
I'D DO ANYTHING
TO HAVE YOU NEAR ME
FORGET THE FUTURE
CAN WE GET CLOSER
PULL BACK YOUR EYELIDS
I'M LOST IN YOUR IRIS

☆ Iris - pastel ghost (sped up + reverb)

Sad & Alone

SAD & ALONE

Me N My Kup

duvet - boa X vinland Saga

Hide Yamaha CS01 (Dark Fantasy Song) - Slowed + Reverb

Evergreen (Vinland version) -- Richy Mitch and The coal miners

thank you little cloud , 

                                        heartbreak hotel

Skin

skin

Don Toliver - TORE UP (slowed guitar remix but i layered it) prod. marcel

Royal Albert Hall Lockdown

Let Go (on the hang in the park)

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

Sunday

From Chaos

Amber

Written as a commission, to make a song that may scientifically help make babies happier! All a bit odd but was fun to do. Scout was integral to the making of the song of course! There's a little making of doc arriving soon for an insight. For now, here are the lyrics. I've decided to officially release Tiny Human on the same day (as I never actually released it anywhere other than on my website and put the video on YouTube). I like the idea that these two songs, one of the trials of early motherhood and the other, a song to sing with your little one for better times go together. Almost like an old fashioned A and B side. You can decide what would be the A or the B side! Here are the lyrics. Inspired by Scout as she LOVED transport and learned how to say helicopter when she was staying in London with us, as I composed the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play music. Hope you and any little ones you may have or know LOVE it and that it has the intended effect. 

Published by Megaphonic and Felt Music
Record label - Megaphonic Records
copyright 2016
for information on use of sync please contact info@imogenheap.com 
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Lyrics 

Bring bring on the bicycle 
Beep beep in the car
Ping ping a submarine 
phew phew helicopter
A choo choo train an aeroplane 
Or whee down the slide

I just adore 'dore 'dore you every day more 
Wherever we are

So up in the sky
And deep in the ocean 
Through valleys and hills 
Away we go

Bring bring on the bicycle 
Beep beep in the car
Ping ping a submarine 
Phew phew helicopter
A choo choo train an aeroplane 
A rocket to the stars! 

There’s a dance dance dance going on in my heart
Wherever we are

So up in the sky
And deep in the ocean 
Through valleys and hills 
Away we go

You oo oo little monkey who’s staying up late
Who purrs like a cat when they get their own way
Who then turns into a lion and let’s out a 
ROAR!!!

I love love love you every day more
Whatever’s in store

Wooo up in the sky
And deep in the ocean 
Through valleys and hills 
Away we go


Recording Credits 
Written, arranged, performed, produced and mixed by Imogen Heap 
Inspired by Scout and other babies

Imogen Heap – Vocals, programming, synths, clarinet, guitar, mbira, field recording
Florence “Scout” Heap-Lebor - Percussions, toys, giggles, roars and wows
Commissioned by Cow & Gate
Inspired by and direction from Scout and other babies and Goldsmith University Scientists 

Michael Lebor - Whistling and backing vocals
Mary-Anne Paterson - Backing vocals
Erica Doerr - Backing vocals 
Lesley Abrey - Backing vocals
Alexis Michallek - Backing vocals
Assistant engineer - Alexis Michallek
Studio Manager - Alexis Michallek 
Recorded at The Hideaway, London 
Mastering - Simon Heyworth
Artwork Credits 
Sleeve design – Andy Carne 
Front cover image of Scout - Michael Lebor
Illustration - Imogen Heap
 



Recording details : 
Vocals, clarinet, mbira, guitar, drums: 
Microphone: Neuman TLM 103 
Pre-amp: Avalon Vt-737SP
Sounds: 
Abigale’s Horn (1955 Morris Oxford) recorded by Imogen Heap.
Scout’s giggles and vocalisations recorded by Imogen Heap.
Linda the cat purring recorded by Alexis Michallek.
Rocket launch sound from US Govt agency.
Bike Bell While Riding recorded by Iwan Gabovitch.
Lily the Grumpy pomeranian recorded by Robert Ponto.
Fiji the cat, meowing recorded by Chocktaw.
Hair dryer, monkey, hiccups and sneezes collected by parents of panel babies.
Propeller airplane (Cessna), Helicopter and trains from Digiffects library.

 
Software Instruments and DAW :
Avid Pro-Tools 
Ableton Live 
Plugins from Waves Gold Bundle and Focusrite D2/D3 
Box Of tricks by Sonic Couture (Glockenspiel, Cocktail Kit, Whirly Tubes, Body Percussions, Vibraphone)
Native Instrument’s Action Strings

Thanks 
Liz Williams and all at Felt Music

The Happy Song

lyrics:
misunderstanding running rampant
i can see it in your eyes
vision tainted by the lies of every man
banana pie
so sweet and soft 
never enough
im left with crumbs, i have to buy
more of it to satisfy my craving 
climb a ladder

im on the edge
of the world
hang my feet off of the side
no one really wants to die alone
but some of us will try
for this life we dont apply
just appear one day for why?
cover up your pain get high enough
to spread your wings and fly

it’s okay to cry
my sweet banana pie
it’s okay to cry
my sweet banana 

yes i am strong deep inside
but i haven’t always known
guess it’s safe inside my home
and i despise this fucking phone

tell me act like i am grown
tell me care for what i own
if I’ve got to give it back to 
someone this life is a loan

this life is a loan
this life is a loan
this life is alone
honey chin up and be strong 
baby this life is alone

and you don’t need banana pie

banana pie (prod. tsuyunoshi)

Self-produced, independent, engaged, she blurs the boundaries between pure art form and creative entrepreneurship. Heap has always communicated and collaborated with her loyal following (currently she has over 2.2m twitter followers alone) both on and offline in pioneering ways. This has included fans contributing sounds, words and ideas through her inventive Listening Chair project for example or taking on a whole city in China for her song Xizi She Knows.

Her graceful tunes such as signature track Hide & Seek populate movies and TV shows, accompany dance and theatre performances and more recently, have been sampled by a whole new generation of young rappers and producers. On the more commercial end and being an 'artistąs artist', Heap has penned songs for and with Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Mika and Josh Groban among others.

Her Mimu Gloves project a cutting edge experimental gestural music ware developed initially for Imogen’s studio and stage work was premiered at TEDU Global 2011 and since has attracted worldwide interest from the New Scientist, BBC tv and radio, Wired, Dezeen, Mashable.. the list goes on. Now Heap can be found collaborating and supporting new Mimu glovers' who range from pop starlet Ariana Grande to the the leading UK charity working in music, disability and technology, Drake Music. Other technology projects have included a generative and reactive music jogging app, explorations in 3D sound with leading engineers and technologists and Arboreal Lightning, a sound and movement reactive LED tree spanning over 1.5km!

In August 2014 Imogen curated and headlined a 4 day festival of contemporary classical music with heavy leanings in technology, bursting with installations to inspire at London’s iconic Roundhouse Camden.

Heap’s albums have been nominated 4 times for Grammys winning her one for engineering, an Ivor Novello award, The Pioneer award in 2015 from the Artist and Manager awards and recently another Grammy for her contribution to Taylor Swift’s album 1989.

Imogen has now added to her roles. Mum, as her little girl Scout was born in November 2014 on her living room floor. True to form of Imogen’s creative character to draw from and experiment with whatever may be going on around her at the time, Scout is the percussionist on Tiny Human, the first song after her birth.

To release Tiny Human, Imogen started to think on how the music industry could be improved in the wake of blockchain technology and smart contracts. So in her spare time, Imogen’s been speaking and meeting up mostly about what she calls ‘Mycelia’ - A foundation from which to create, champion and maintain the ethical, technological and commercial standards required to run a fair trade music industry.

Heap has recently produced the music for the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, theatre production. J.K Rowling's next story in the series has opened at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End, May 2016.

In 2017, you may see Imogen in a town near you as she’s planning her much awaited next World Tour!