Songs For Unconventional Vehicles

by Michael Hearst

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Say Hello To The Party, Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, Songs For Unconventional Vehicles, Songs For Extraordinary People, Songs For Fearful Flyers, Songs For Unusual Creatures, As Smart As We Are, and Tranz Party. , and , .

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1.	Song For Unconventional Vehicles 01:03	info	buy track
2.	Airboard Persnal Hovercraft 01:18	info	buy track
3.	Airbus Beluga 00:31	info	buy track
4.	Airfish 8 01:06	info	buy track
5.	Autoalveare 00:37	info	buy track
6.	Bathyscaphe Triest 01:11	info	buy track
7.	Beer Bike 00:56	info	buy track
8.	Bell X-1 00:29	info	buy track
9.	Bertha Tunnel-Boring Machine 01:01	info	buy track
10.	Big Wind 00:38	info	buy track
11.	Domicopter 00:42	info	buy track
12.	E-ship 1 00:19	info	buy track
13.	EleMMent Palazzo 00:41	info	buy track
14.	Flying Cathedral 00:42	info	buy track
15.	Flying Jellyfish 00:30	info	buy track
16.	Gas-Turbine Motorcycle 00:23	info	buy track
17.	Graf Zeppelin Airship 01:11	info	buy track
18.	Hammetschwand Elevator 00:27	info	buy track
19.	Handcar 00:39	info	buy track
20.	Helios Solar Aircraft 00:48	info	buy track
21.	Human Cannonball Truck 00:51	info	buy track
22.	Hyperloop 00:36	info	buy track
23.	HZ1-Aerocycle 01:23	info	buy track
24.	Jail Wagon 00:25	info	buy track
25.	Jet Pack 01:22	info	buy track
26.	Jet Train 01:29	info	buy track
27.	Krupp Bagger 288 01:09	info	buy track
28.	Liberty One Steam-Powered Rocket 01:25	info	buy track
29.	Lockhead XFV 00:34	info	buy track
30.	Monowheel 00:20		buy track
31.	Moon Buggy 00:57	info	buy track
32.	OneWheel Electric Rideable 01:00	info	buy track
33.	Ostrich Carriage 00:37	info	buy track
34.	Ripsaw 00:31	info	buy track
35.	Scubadoo 00:50	info	buy track
36.	Solar-Powered Race Car 00:33	info	buy track
37.	Stoopidtaller 00:45	info	buy track
38.	Strollon Stroller 00:37	info	buy track
39.	Swallowable Wireless Camera 00:31	info	buy track
40.	Turtle 02:33	info	buy track
41.	USS Zumwalt 00:26	info	buy track
42.	Voyager 01:09	info	buy track
43.	Walking Truck 00:46	info	buy track
44.	Winston Wong Ice Vehicle 00:16	info	buy track
45.	Zamboni 00:30	lyrics	buy track
Zamboni, Zamboni, I'm gonna shave that ice. Zamboni, Zamboni, and make it look real nice. Zamboni, Zamboni, I'm gonna shave that ice. Zamboni, Zamboni, and make it look real nice.
46.	Zil-2906 01:14	info	buy track
47.	SFUV Finale 01:01	info	buy track

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Author and composer Michael Hearst presents Songs For Unconventional Vehicles, a collection of miniature songs about some of the strangest cars, trains, planes, submersibles, dirigibles, and rockets EVER!

Released as a companion to Hearst’s children’s book, Unconventional Vehicles, this full-length album (comprised of 47 songs varying in lengths between 2.5 minutes and a mere 17 seconds), features such vehicles as underwater battery-powered scooters, solar-powered race cars, pizza delivery drones, and a hot-air balloon shaped like the Cathedral of Saint Gall.

Songs For Unconventional Vehicles showcases a grand assembly of guest vocalists including Olivier Conan (Chicha Libre), Tanya Donelly (Belly, Throwing Muses), Neil Gaiman, Rachell Garniez, Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields), Greta Gertler Gold, Darren Hanlon, Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom), Clare Muldaur, and Syd Straw (The Golden Palominos).

Brimming with catchy melodies and fascinating facts, this album is sure to enthrall vehicle enthusiasts and music lovers of every age.

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released May 14, 2021

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Michael Hearst New York, New York

Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. His most recent project is a 4-part book/album series: Unusual Creatures, Extraordinary People, Curious Constructions, and Unconventional Vehicles. Unusual Creatures was also made into a PBS series, hosted by Hearst.
Hearst has also composed soundtracks for the movies To Be Takei, Magic Camp, and Chicken People, among others. ... more

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