Half-handed Cloud

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

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.