Half-handed Cloud is an American recording project, based in

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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

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. The majority of Half-handed Cloud's albums have been released on

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. His previous band was Wookieback with

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and Brandon Buckner. Ringhofer, a

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, lived rent free in return for his custodial services at a church in

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for a decade. John Ringhofer has collaborated with

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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

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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'' (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 ''

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References

External links

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Half-handed Cloud page
at Sounds Familyre
Half-handed Cloud page
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