Are you tired of hearing the same old two or three ice cream truck songs over and over? Michael Hearst certainly is. That's why he's created an entire album of NEW songs for ice cream trucks.
"Michael Hearst has transformed one of the most overlooked, yet most insidiously infectious forms of American popular song into a rumination on summertime, innocence, and the music that lurks almost inaudibly in the margins of our lives."
-John Hodgman
"Whenever I listen to this album I find myself screaming.
What about you? Shouldn’t you scream? Shouldn’t we all scream for this album?"
-Lemony Snicket
"A miniaturist masterpiece, it somehow feels as crucial, in a tiny, strange, magical way, as the trucks of summer whose fleeting melody it invokes."
-Michael Chabon
Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer. He is a founding member of the band One Ring Zero, which has released at least seven CDs--including the acclaimed lit-rock album As Smart As We Are. His most recent work is a solo album titled Songs For Ice Cream Trucks. As a writer, Michael's work has appeared in such journals as McSweeney's, Parenthetical Note, and Post Road. He hosts a podcast series with Rick Moody called Eighteen Fifty Nine and is a producer for the website Cassette From My Ex. Hearst has performed and given lectures and workshops at universites, museums, and cultural centers around the world. He has appeared on such shows as NPR's Fresh Air, A+E's Breakfast With The Arts, and NBC's The Today Show.
Thank you Micheal! I have an Ice Cream Truck depot near my store. That's all I hear, constantly, all summer long. They've created quite a 'shoulder season' in fact, for ice cream distribution. I see them upwards of Halloween and I swear, before the snow has hardly melted. HA!
Hello Brooklyn!...my trio is playing in Brooklyn this Sunday night @ The Jalopy Theater (315 Columbia St, Red Hook, Brooklyn). Show starts at 8, we play at 9:30. Come by if you can.
