Half-handed Cloud


Half-handed Cloud is an American recording project, based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. 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. 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, among other works such as Thy Is A Word And Feet Need Lamps, and 2014's Flying Scroll Flight Control. 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.

Discography

Albums

  • Learning About Your Scale
  • We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved
  • Thy Is a Word and Feet Need Lamps
  • Halos & Lassos
  • As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth
  • Flying Scroll Flight Control
  • I Don't Have A Bib
  • ''Flutterama''

EPs

  • I'm So Sheepy
  • What's the Remedy?
  • Harp That's Hung-Up in the Tree
  • Winding Currents on a Spool
  • DOVE
  • Blood Brothers
  • Foiled EP N°1
  • Foiled EP N°2
  • ''Jiminy Circuits''

Compilation albums

Cut Me Down & Count My Rings
  • ''Gathered Out of Thin Air''

In popular culture

The band's 2015 song Nativity Costume was remixed in the 2019 video game Hypnospace Outlaw.