Half-handed Cloud

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Half-handed Cloud is an American recording project, based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015.[1] It was started in 1999 as a one-man band by John Ringhofer, who created the band name based on an occurrence in the Old Testament.[2] The majority of Half-handed Cloud's albums have been released on Asthmatic Kitty Records. His previous band was Wookieback with Matthew Vollmer and Brandon Buckner. Ringhofer, a vegetarian, lived rent free in return for his custodial services at a church in Berkeley, CA for a decade. John Ringhofer has collaborated with Sufjan Stevens on Half-handed Cloud's What's The Remedy? 7-inch,[3] among other works such as Thy Is A Word And Feet Need Lamps,[4] and 2014's Flying Scroll Flight Control.[5] Daniel Smith of Danielson and Sounds Familyre is credited for helping to establish Half-handed Cloud's early days, and has been a frequent collaborator with John Ringhofer.[6]

Half-handed Cloud at a concert in Haninge, Sweden in 2008

Discography

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Albums

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  • Learning About Your Scale, 1999
  • We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved, 2002
  • Thy Is a Word and Feet Need Lamps, 2005
  • Halos & Lassos, 2006
  • As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth]], 2010
  • Flying Scroll Flight Control, 2014
  • I Don't Have A Bib, 2018
  • Flutterama, 2022
  • I'm So Sheepy, 2000
  • What's the Remedy?, 2005
  • Harp That's Hung-Up in the Tree, 2006
  • Winding Currents on a Spool, 2007
  • DOVE, 2011
  • Blood Brothers, 2012
  • Foiled EP N°1, 2015
  • Foiled EP N°2, 2015
  • Jiminy Circuits, 2016

Compilation albums

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  • Cut Me Down & Count My Rings, 2009
  • Gathered Out of Thin Air, 2019
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The band's 2015 song Nativity Costume (2000 Year's Eve) was remixed in the 2019 video game Hypnospace Outlaw.

References

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  1. ^ "Welcome!". Halfhandedcloud.com. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. ^ Keller, Chris (2 October 2006). "Half-handed Cloud, Exploring What it Means to be Truly Human: An Interview with John Ringhofer". The Other Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  3. ^ "Pitchfork: Sufjan Collaborates with Half-Handed Cloud on New EP". Archived from the original on 2008-05-24. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
  4. ^ "All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! » Half-handed Cloud - Thy is a Word & Feet Need Lamps". allgoodnaysayers.net. Archived from the original on 5 February 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Flying Scroll Flight Control". Asthmatickitty.com. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  6. ^ Fink, Matt (2006-01-30). "Half-Handed Cloud | Interview | Tiny Mix Tapes". Tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
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