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There seems to be some confusion among fans as to who sang and wrote each part of Inner Universe. On many youtube videos, you will see “Inner Universe by Origa and Shanti Snyder”. This isn’t wrong, but it isn’t fully correct either. I think it’s more proper to say, “Inner Universe by Origa and Benedict del Maestro”, or better yet, “Inner Universe vocals by Origa and Benedict del Maestro, lyrics by Origa, Shanti Snyder and Gabriela Robin”.

The treble soprano vocals for the refrain are provided by Benedict del Maestro. Benedict is not credited at the main lyrics page, but at the music staff section, saying Treble : benedict delmaestro [m-11][the london oratory school schola], where [m-11] means track 11, Inner Universe. If Benedict del Maestro does not ring any bells, probably his involvement with the Lord of the Rings OST will.

As for Shanti Snyder’s involvement, I sent her an email and she answered: (more…)

The Earth Girl Arjuna OST 1 probably has the most Gabriela Robin material found on any Yoko Kanno album. But sadly, not all songs played in the animation was published. I guess there was a surplus of so many songs… The unofficial fan-ripped album created by roxfan of YKDB contains 47 background music tracks in total, and a couple of notable Gabriela-sounding songs in it.

“Clouds” isn’t the official title, we just need to call it something.

Clouds - Track 34:

Track 10:

Track 13:

UPDATE: Download the tracks here. These are available through RapidShare, so these links will expire if no one downloads them for a while:

Part 1
Part 2

Goliath made fan-transcribed lyrics to “Clouds”. Now aren’t you wondering why those weren’t placed in the OST? Wolf’s Rain and Ghost in the Shell: SAC unreleased songs will be next

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Here is Edseverripit’s version of Stamina Rose:

Why those illusion just keep floating up?
Excel than man one should you drain?
Why those illusion just keep floating, yeah?
Excel than man one it should drain…

Yay, yay-hee, yay-yay, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah…(3x)

The lyrics page for Stamina Rose has been updated.

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Edseverripit has made his (her?) own version of the lyrics of “She Is” from the Ghost in the Shell: SAC Solid State Society OST. Just like “Some Other Time”, the title of the song could be easily heard amidst other words that are almost unintelligible, but then brings to thought that the song might be in English, but pronounced really softly and with an odd accent.

Here is Edseverripit’s take on She Is, originally published in his blog:

Do you see this way?
See what you should we do?
Inhale cause one to fail…

See instead…
Mystique standing
Way to do, to be told…
Go down there, you see the breeze
It’s all done, send it to…
Because so, their here yes, she heard from them, what have you?-
Be certain fall…

I tried to roughly transcribe it myself, making it fit into English words, but (more…)