Biography

Ari Hest became interested in music while still a teenager growing up in the Bronx. Though he'd taken piano lessons as a child, he taught himself how to play the guitar, mostly by listening to records from his parents' collection (Paul Simon) and alternative radio (Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews). While studying at NYU, Hest hit the East Coast college circuit, performing a mix of covers and his own material. The exposure built him a respectable regional following, which he nurtured with self-released albums in 2001 and 2002 (Coming Home and Story After Story, respectively). Hest signed with Columbia Records in 2003 and issued Someone to Tell a year later. Created with producer David Rolfe, the album was a mix of new and re-recorded material and fit comfortably into the well-appointed adult alternative territory of artists like Josh Kelley and John Mayer. The Green Room Sessions, an EP (on which Hest played all the instruments) recorded and mixed on the popular free program GarageBand, came out in 2006, and was followed the following year by another full-length Columbia release, The Break-In. In 2008 he began recording and releasing a new track on his own subscription service every Monday for an entire year. Fans voted on their favorites, resulting in the release of 2009's appropriately titled Twelve Mondays. Sunset Over Hope Street, his first album for Downtown Records' Mercer Street imprint, was released in 2011. . Ari Hest became interested in music while still a teenager growing up in the Bronx. Though he'd taken piano lessons as a child, he taught himself how to play the guitar, mostly by listening to records from his parents' collection (Paul Simon) and alternative radio (Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews). While studying at NYU, Hest hit the East Coast college circuit, performing a mix of covers and his own material. The exposure built him a respectable regional following, which he nurtured with self-released albums in 2001 and 2002 (Coming Home and Story After Story, respectively). Hest signed with Columbia Records in 2003 and issued Someone to Tell a year later. Created with producer David Rolfe, the album was a mix of new and re-recorded material and fit comfortably into the well-appointed adult alternative territory of artists like Josh Kelley and John Mayer. The Green Room Sessions, an EP (on which Hest played all the instruments) recorded and mixed on the popular free program GarageBand, came out in 2006, and was followed the following year by another full-length Columbia release, The Break-In. In 2008 he began recording and releasing a new track on his own subscription service every Monday for an entire year. Fans voted on their favorites, resulting in the release of 2009's appropriately titled Twelve Mondays. Sunset Over Hope Street, his first album for Downtown Records' Mercer Street imprint, was released in 2011.

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6. The Fire Pla..	7. Winter Songs..	8. The Green Ro..	9. Spring Songs..	10. Come Home
11. Autumn Songs..	12. Summer Songs..	13. DreamRiders ..	14. An Intimate ..	15. Sunset Over ..
16. Sunset Over ..	17. Sunset over ..	18. Twelve Monda..	19. Windfall (fe..	20. What Becomes..

Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	After the Thunder	Shouts and Whispers	3:02	$0.99
2.	No One Can Stay	Shouts and Whispers	2:13	$0.99
3.	Bona Fide	Shouts and Whispers	3:57	$0.99
4.	How We'll Always Be	Shouts and Whispers	2:40	$0.99
5.	Into the Empty White	Shouts and Whispers	3:09	$0.99
6.	Less	Shouts and Whispers	2:40	$0.99
7.	Covering Up	Shouts and Whispers	4:20	$0.99
8.	Middle Man	Shouts and Whispers	4:17	$0.99
9.	Here to Be Forgotten	Shouts and Whispers	4:18	$0.99
10.	Harvest	Shouts and Whispers	4:02	$0.99
11.	Mercy (2009)	Twelve Mondays	3:41	$0.99
12.	Weight (2009)	Twelve Mondays	2:35	$0.99
13.	Harmony	Sunset over Hope Street	2:45	$0.99
14.	If I Knew You'd Say Yes (Acousti..	Sunset over Hope Street	2:57	$0.99
15.	If I Knew You'd Say Yes	Sunset over Hope Street	2:56	$0.99
16.	Until Next Time	Sunset over Hope Street	3:34	$0.99
17.	Running Out of Room	Dreamriders Soundtrack	3:20	$0.99
18.	Broken Voices	Dreamriders Soundtrack	4:42	$0.99
19.	Iowa	Dreamriders Soundtrack	2:06	$0.99
20.	Weight	Dreamriders Soundtrack	2:40	$0.99
21.	Nico's Freefall	Dreamriders Soundtrack	0:55	$0.99
22.	Stevens Pass	Dreamriders Soundtrack	0:55	$0.99
23.	Now	Sunset Over Hope Street	4:02	$0.99
24.	Good Look Around	Sunset Over Hope Street	3:22	$0.99
25.	Swan Song	Sunset Over Hope Street	4:03	$0.99

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