Half-handed Cloud at a concert in Haninge, Sweden in 2008
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]
Discography
Albums
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)
EPs
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
Cut Me Down & Count My Rings (2009)
Gathered Out of Thin Air (2019)
In popular culture
The band's 2015 song Nativity Costume (2000 Year's Eve) was remixed in the 2019 video game Hypnospace Outlaw.
References
^"Welcome!". Halfhandedcloud.com. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
