VINYL FORMAT. Many years ago, Sufjan Stevens and Half-Handed Cloud's John Ringhofer got together in Dan Smiths (Danielson) parents' basement--not to play table tennis--but to record five of John's songs, which were about some funny things: medicine and tablets and letters and graves. At first glance, Sufjan thought, oh no! John's really gotten into this rock star lifestyle, LSD, drug use, psychedelic prose poems, motion sickness, hospitalization, etc. Should he be worried? Well, it turns out, he was all wr   [ read more ]

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Last year, Half-Handed Cloud's "Learning About Your Scale" careened across the landscape of independent music like a midget car jammed with clowns. With 25 songs crammed into 27 minutes, "Scale" charmed and amazed reviewers and unaffiliated listeners alike with unexpected instrumentation (trombones, talking books, and an air conditioner) memorable melodies, and a dizzying funhouse vision of The Meaning of Life. Once again, Asthmatic Kitty and Sounds Familyre join together to present a new collection of son   [ read more ]

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Armed with the psalms of David, an acoustic guitar, and the electronic Omnichord, Half-Handed Cloud assails nineteen new pop songs outside Eden's gates on Halos & Lassos. With hints of fitness music and video game soundtracks, Halos & Lassos tromps through 19 songs like a mostly-sunny afternoon in Berkeley, California-home of bandleader John Ringhofer. With the modal purity of Moondog, symphonic elements of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," and the ancient art of punning, the album boasts pop mel   [ read more ]

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In twenty-five playful tracks, Learning About Your Scale takes the listener on a dizzying ride through Half-handed Cloud's funhouse vision of The Meaning of Life. Listeners are guaranteed a great time but behind the fast acceleration and sudden stops, and the beeps, honks and whirs, HHC's John Ringhofer casts a gentle, glowing light on What Really Matters.With most songs clocking in under ninety seconds, the listener will have no chance to become bored. Yet HHC takes care and craft with every   [ read more ]

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Many years ago, Sufjan Stevens and Half-Handed Cloud's John Ringhofer got together in Dan Smiths (Danielson) parents' basement--not to play table tennis--but to record five of John's songs, which were about some funny things: medicine and tablets and letters and graves. At first glance, Sufjan thought, oh no! John's really gotten into this rock star lifestyle, LSD, drug use, psychedelic prose poems, motion sickness, hospitalization, etc. Should he be worried? Well, it turns out, he was all wrong. John Ring   [ read more ]

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Half-handed Cloud's third album for Asthmatic Kitty, Thy Is a Word and Feet Need Lamps, delivers an enlightening new collection of signature songs by singer/songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist John Ringhofer. HH''s first two full-length albums, Learning About Your Scale and We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved left critics struggling to draw comparisons with other artists, but Ringhofer acknowledges the influence of Brian Wilson, the Beatles, and some impossibly obscure musician   [ read more ]

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Last year, Half-Handed Cloud's 'Learning About Your Scale' careened across the landscape of independent music like a midget car jammed with clowns. With 25 songs crammed into 27 minutes, 'Scale' charmed and amazed reviewers and unaffiliated listeners alike with unexpected instrumentation (trombones, talking books, and an air conditioner) memorable melodies, and a dizzying funhouse vision of The Meaning of Life. Once again, Asthmatic Kitty and Sounds Familyre join together to present a new collection of son   [ read more ]

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