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.

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.