Half-Handed Cloud

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Eyes Peeled 00:00 Tools
Quail 00:00 Tools
Sailing the Veil-Boat 00:00 Tools
Bees Are Trying to Build Their Nest in You 00:00 Tools
Couple Kings Close The Road On A Giant Part 1 00:00 Tools
Tongues That Possess the Earth Instead 00:00 Tools
You've Been Faithful To Us Clouds 00:00 Tools
Feed Your Sheep A Burning Lamp 00:00 Tools
Animals Are Cut in Two 00:00 Tools
He Woke Me Up Again 00:00 Tools
We're Very Greatly Loved 00:00 Tools
Earth Outside of Ghost Will Only Be Quicksand 00:00 Tools
Suit of Clouds To Ride the Skies 00:00 Tools
Foot On the Brake 00:00 Tools
Picnic Few Want to Attend 00:00 Tools
Praise Awaits You 00:00 Tools
Rise to the Heavens on Evaporation 00:00 Tools
In You NOw, But Still Below 00:00 Tools
You Wouldn't Embarrass Me, Would You? 00:00 Tools
Celebrating Hearts Aligned 00:00 Tools
Skip the Rope 00:00 Tools
They're Bad, But We're Worse 00:00 Tools
Bed That Breathes With Him 00:00 Tools
Pre-teen Apocalyptic Film Acting (Medley) 00:00 Tools
Place Your Wind Against My Sails 00:00 Tools
Tree Replanted Back in Eden 00:00 Tools
Rainbow = Warbow 00:00 Tools
You Get a Horseshoe 00:00 Tools
Home for Christmas 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Javelin' 00:00 Tools
Ezekiel Bread 00:00 Tools
Out of Crudeness: Healing 00:00 Tools
Hydrological Cycle 00:00 Tools
The Famine's Hard 00:00 Tools
I Got a Letter 00:00 Tools
Mud... 00:00 Tools
Flea Market Temple 00:00 Tools
Once, Twice, Seven Times a Werewolf 00:00 Tools
Grandfather Foreskin 00:00 Tools
Here's a List 00:00 Tools
Jael Peg Caper 00:00 Tools
Thumb/Toe Collection 00:00 Tools
Everyone Did What Was Right in Their Own Eyes 00:00 Tools
Pup-Tent Noah 00:00 Tools
To Love Like the Father & Son Love Each Other 00:00 Tools
Considered It a Loan 00:00 Tools
In Holy Pursuit 00:00 Tools
Can't Even Breathe On My Own Two Feet 00:00 Tools
We Are Not Orphaned 00:00 Tools
We Don't Know How It Grows 00:00 Tools
can't even breathe on my own 00:00 Tools
Armstrong's Line 00:00 Tools
Can't Even Breathe On My Own Hand 00:00 Tools
Dear John 00:00 Tools
Pressing Into It 00:00 Tools
Hey Advocate 00:00 Tools
These Crowns We Wear 00:00 Tools
The Sea Has No Face 00:00 Tools
So-So Sorry Teacher 00:00 Tools
I'm the Blinder 00:00 Tools
You Call Yourself Our Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Into Jars 00:00 Tools
Even the Sparrow'd Be Arrowed 00:00 Tools
Plant a Little Fir Tree 00:00 Tools
Samuel Sleeps Where the Ark Lays 00:00 Tools
Those Who Are Saved Say, 'I'm Lost' 00:00 Tools
Always Running Away 00:00 Tools
Tanning Beds to Shine Your Love 00:00 Tools
All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray 00:00 Tools
The Shepherd's Reach 00:00 Tools
Drowning Chariot 00:00 Tools
It's Better To Follow The Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Baldy Knees 00:00 Tools
You Flagged us down with a Wave 00:00 Tools
Good-Good Path 00:00 Tools
We're Not Getting Well 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Tuck Us In, Father 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Our First Full Day Was Spent in Rest 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Running Late for Bed 00:00 Tools
Worlds in Speech, Now in Reach! 00:00 Tools
Took Your Tablets 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: I Got A-Rested 00:00 Tools
Splashdowns hold the Hymnal Together 00:00 Tools
Clothe Yourself Within Us 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: That You May Be Gracious 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Work Isn't What Seemed to Be 00:00 Tools
Sensei Says 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: There Remains a Rest 00:00 Tools
Leaving The Ninety-Nine 00:00 Tools
Maritime Rites 00:00 Tools
Let's Build a Planet 00:00 Tools
What Great Things...! 00:00 Tools
We Must Be Ploughed-Up 00:00 Tools
You Call Yourself Our Shepherd (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
If Before We Were Coughing 00:00 Tools
Guy With Driftwood Skin 00:00 Tools
Pneumatic Mystery Envelopes 00:00 Tools
Baby Moon 00:00 Tools
So Busted Before Your Righteous Throne 00:00 Tools
Source of the Watercourse 00:00 Tools
Rewire My Desire 00:00 Tools
Finding 00:00 Tools
Fresh & Bitter from the Same Spring 00:00 Tools
The Body Binds Us 00:00 Tools
Sonar Sends Bells To and Fro 00:00 Tools
Make Me All Petered-Out 00:00 Tools
Look, the Clouds Have Got You Again! 00:00 Tools
Out on the Ice, We Face Our Hearts 00:00 Tools
Holy Pouch Shoe Guidance 00:00 Tools
Serpent Head Crushed 00:00 Tools
Secret Christ Costume 00:00 Tools
Divers Divers 00:00 Tools
I'm Over the Need to Bail 00:00 Tools
Look How We Made These People 00:00 Tools
Liberty Bell 00:00 Tools
Set Your Beams 00:00 Tools
Put a New Life in Me 00:00 Tools
He's Not the Swindler We Are 00:00 Tools
You'll Sea 00:00 Tools
What Spins, By Your Hand Was Spun 00:00 Tools
Lunar Tears, Timed by Tides 00:00 Tools
Debtors To Greeks & Barbarians 00:00 Tools
Beachcomber's Ultralight 00:00 Tools
Cot-Roof 00:00 Tools
We Toil and Struggle 00:00 Tools
Cut-down 00:00 Tools
Concentric Groups of Mirrored Loops 00:00 Tools
Brooks Embracing Burdens 00:00 Tools
Titus Three 00:00 Tools
Resting in the Current 00:00 Tools
How is a Water-Walker Like a Cleft-Stasher? 00:00 Tools
Command the Wind & Water Inside Me 00:00 Tools
The * That Moved-around the Night 00:00 Tools
Ten Commandment Tombstone 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You & You Will Not Know How to Conjure It Away 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You & You Will Not Know How To Conjure-It Away 00:00 Tools
Was He Really Doubting? 00:00 Tools
Tuck Us In, Father 00:00 Tools
Running Late For Bed 00:00 Tools
Our First Full Day Was Spent In Rest 00:00 Tools
Psychic Failure, Utmost Patience 00:00 Tools
Chins 00:00 Tools
I Got A-Rested 00:00 Tools
That You May Be Gracious 00:00 Tools
Oily 00:00 Tools
Buffet 00:00 Tools
Sailling the Veil-Boat 00:00 Tools
He’s Already On Everyone’s Side 00:00 Tools
There Remains A Rest 00:00 Tools
Enlightenment in the Way 00:00 Tools
Even if Angels Arrive With Plausible News 00:00 Tools
Work Isn't What It Seemed To Be 00:00 Tools
Ploughmen 00:00 Tools
Pause 00:00 Tools
Sewing Wind To Fabric 00:00 Tools
Asian Meteorologists Predicted the Heavens to Snow-down a Child a Child to Us (Plant a little Fir Tree) 00:00 Tools
Bees baked a Loaf for Me (or Flour from Flowers?) 00:00 Tools
We Speak of What We Know 00:00 Tools
To Fill 00:00 Tools
Secret Wisdom Intervening 00:00 Tools
Tablets Breathing Their Last Breath 00:00 Tools
Ten Commandments Tombstone 00:00 Tools
He Can’t Deny Himself 00:00 Tools
Missing 00:00 Tools
Flying Scroll Flight Patrol 00:00 Tools
Winding 00:00 Tools
Now the Veiled Faces Can Breathe 00:00 Tools
Loathed 00:00 Tools
A Favorite Christmas Gag Gift 00:00 Tools
Who Brought These Up? 00:00 Tools
Got-it 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Javelin! / Ezekiel Bread 00:00 Tools
Dear John [Original Version] 00:00 Tools
Never in Labor! 00:00 Tools
Isaiah 49 00:00 Tools
Couple Kings Close the Road on a Giant, Pts. 2-4 00:00 Tools
Fetus, I Am Not Out of My Mind 00:00 Tools
When Overwhelmed With Dread 00:00 Tools
Ode to Team Pinecone 00:00 Tools
Three to Guide Us Where We've Never Been - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Pre-teen Apocalyptic Film Acting (Why? Medley) 00:00 Tools
Mud . . . 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come on You & You Will Not Know to Conjure - It Away 00:00 Tools
learning about 00:00 Tools
Festus I am Not Out Of My Mind 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You and You Will Not Know How to Conjure It Away 00:00 Tools
A Bed That Breathes With Him. 00:00 Tools
Rainbow=Warbow. 00:00 Tools
Three to Guide Us Where We've Never Been 00:00 Tools
Pup-Tent No Ah 00:00 Tools
Festus, I Am Not Out Of My Mind 00:00 Tools
Festus, I Am Not Out Of My Mind (Single Mix) 00:00 Tools
Those People We Made? We Love 'em!- Look How We Made These People 00:00 Tools
Those People We Made? We Love 'em!- Let's Build a Planet 00:00 Tools
Body Binds Us 00:00 Tools
Those People We Made? We Love 'em!- Serpent Head Crushed 00:00 Tools
Sooty Insides Need Your Cleanliness- Put a New Life in Me 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You + You Will Not Know How To Conjure It Away 00:00 Tools
Peoples With Rubbed Out Steeples 00:00 Tools
Pre-Teen Apocalyptic Film Acti 00:00 Tools
What Are You? Surprise Us! 00:00 Tools
Three To Guide Us Where We've Never Been Pt.2 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You... 00:00 Tools
Can't Even Breath on My Own Two Feet 00:00 Tools
Nests In Chests 00:00 Tools
Can't even breath on my own 00:00 Tools
Eart Outside Of Ghost Will Only Be Quicksand 00:00 Tools
Here We Go Transformation 00:00 Tools
Naaman 00:00 Tools
How We Made These People 00:00 Tools
A Tree Replanted Back In Eden 00:00 Tools
Train Yourselves In Godliness 00:00 Tools
Moon 00:00 Tools
picnic few want 00:00 Tools
Slip Through The Cracks 00:00 Tools
The Cloud Became a Baby To Be With Us 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You And You Will Not Know How To Con 00:00 Tools
You Get a Horse's Shoe 00:00 Tools
Gentle Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You And You Will Not Know How To Conjure It 00:00 Tools
Bathed In Palms 00:00 Tools
Out of Crudeness, Healing 00:00 Tools
Turntable Turntable 00:00 Tools
Stumbled On A Holiness 00:00 Tools
What Great Things&! 00:00 Tools
A Picnic Few Would Want To Attend 00:00 Tools
We Must 00:00 Tools
Gentle Perception 00:00 Tools
California 00:00 Tools
The Shepherd’s Reach 00:00 Tools
Nativity Play Time Travel Tunnel 00:00 Tools
He’s Not the Swindler We Are 00:00 Tools
Half-Handed Cloud - Sensei Says 00:00 Tools
Mystery of Godliness 00:00 Tools
The Conscience of Cortés 00:00 Tools
Let The Mind In You 00:00 Tools
Needy Ones Hold Out 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come On You & You Will Not Know How To Conjure It Away 00:00 Tools
Festus, I Am Not Out Of My Mind (Single Mix) - Half-handed Cloud 00:00 Tools
Star Carol 00:00 Tools
A Bed That Breathes With Him 00:00 Tools
Tapes 00:00 Tools
Roald Read The Passage 00:00 Tools
Francis Drake Dreaming 00:00 Tools
So Bust 00:00 Tools
What Great Things…! 00:00 Tools
It’s Better to Follow the Shepherd 00:00 Tools
disaster will come upon you and you will not know how to conjure-it away 00:00 Tools
The Road I Took For Granite 00:00 Tools
Anything 00:00 Tools
Grace Be With You 00:00 Tools
You Came To Disappear 00:00 Tools
Antennas Extend 00:00 Tools
Nativity Costume (2000 Year's Eve) 00:00 Tools
Couple Kings Close the Road On a Giant, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Leaving' the Ninety-Nine 00:00 Tools
Running Off With Balderdash 00:00 Tools
Reminding 00:00 Tools
We're Very Greatly Loved - rEp 00:00 Tools
Frankly Corinthians 00:00 Tools
He Can't Deny Himself 00:00 Tools
For Our Sake 00:00 Tools
Reconciliation Grows Today 00:00 Tools
We Wear The Path 00:00 Tools
Deity Dwelling Bodily 00:00 Tools
Gathered Out of Thin Air 00:00 Tools
Song For Different Eternities 00:00 Tools
Doing Battle With The Edge 00:00 Tools
Your Outer Nature Wastes Away 00:00 Tools
Viscous Shadow of Cleopas 00:00 Tools
All The Fullness Of God Pleased To Dwell 00:00 Tools
Let's Hum This Song Right Now 00:00 Tools
Öh, It's Christmastime Again! 00:00 Tools
Sleeves Of The Forest 00:00 Tools
Three to Guide Us Where We've Never Been Part 2 00:00 Tools
Branches Crowned Your Brow 00:00 Tools
Tracing Circuits That You Tread 00:00 Tools
I Heard The Sparks 00:00 Tools
Once, Twice, Seven Times a Wer 00:00 Tools
Backwards Through The Grate 00:00 Tools
Even the Sparrow'd Be Arrowed - rEp 00:00 Tools
We're Giving It A Chance 00:00 Tools
All They That See Him Laugh [from Handel's Messiah] 00:00 Tools
Live As the Children of Light Inside of You 00:00 Tools
Fingerplay On The Ribbon Waves 00:00 Tools
Tanning 00:00 Tools
Animals_Are_Cut_In_Two 00:00 Tools
He's Already On Everyone's Side 00:00 Tools
To Love Like the Father Son Love Each Other 00:00 Tools
chins... 00:00 Tools
Sheep 00:00 Tools
finding... 00:00 Tools
pause... 00:00 Tools
Can't Even Breathe On My Own T 00:00 Tools
Thumb-Toe Collection 00:00 Tools
Worlds in Speech, Now In Reach 00:00 Tools
buffet... 00:00 Tools
Can't Even Breathe 00:00 Tools
Three To Guide Us Where We've Never Been: Part 2 00:00 Tools
To love like the father & son 00:00 Tools
Earth Outside Of Ghost Will O 00:00 Tools
Can't Even Breate On My Own Hand 00:00 Tools
once, twice, seven times a... 00:00 Tools
Rise To The Heavens On Evapora 00:00 Tools
The * that Moved Around the Night 00:00 Tools
oily... 00:00 Tools
So Busted Before Your Righteou 00:00 Tools
half-handed cloud - learning about 00:00 Tools
Peacock Tail 00:00 Tools
He Woke Me Up Again (Sufjan Stevens cover) 00:00 Tools
Pre-Teen Apocalyptic Film Acting 00:00 Tools
Command The Wind & Water Insid 00:00 Tools
The Star That Moved 00:00 Tools
Mud 00:00 Tools
Those Who Are Saved Say, "I'm Lost" - rEp 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Runni 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Our F 00:00 Tools
tanning beds to shine your lov 00:00 Tools
Couple Kings Close the Road On a Giant, Pt. 2-4 00:00 Tools
Were Very Greatly Loved 00:00 Tools
It S Better To Follow The Shepherd 00:00 Tools
The * That Moved - Around the Night 00:00 Tools
Feed Your Sheep 00:00 Tools
Thumb / Toe Collection 00:00 Tools
Sooty Insides Need Your Cleanliness: Put A New Life On Me 00:00 Tools
Worry-In the Waves 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Work 00:00 Tools
Oh, It's Christmastime Again! 00:00 Tools
Three To Guide Us Where We've Never Been (21) 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: I Got 00:00 Tools
Half-handed Cloud - 16 So Bust 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: That 00:00 Tools
Celebrating Heats Aligned 00:00 Tools
Ten Commandment Tombstone. 00:00 Tools
Ploughmen... 00:00 Tools
Cant Even Breathe on My Own Two Feet 00:00 Tools
foot on the break 00:00 Tools
In You Now But Still Below 00:00 Tools
Words in Speech, Now in Reach! 00:00 Tools
16 So Bust 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: There 00:00 Tools
To Love Like the Father and So 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come on You & You Will Not Know to Conjure It Away 00:00 Tools
The Body Blinds Us 00:00 Tools
You Wouldn`t Embarrass Me, Wo 00:00 Tools
Pre-Teen Apocalyptic Film Acting (Medley) (Why? Cover) 00:00 Tools
Disaster Will Come Upon You + You Will Not Know How to Conjure-It Away 00:00 Tools
on song in seven rests: tuck u 00:00 Tools
Bees Are Trying To Build Their Nest In You. 00:00 Tools
Three to Guide Us Where We've 00:00 Tools
You Yourself Our Shepherd (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
samuel sleeps where the ark la 00:00 Tools
Half-handed Cloud - 15 We Must 00:00 Tools
We're Not Getting Well 2 00:00 Tools
When Overwhelmed With Bread 00:00 Tools
You Call Yourself Our Shepard? 00:00 Tools
It's Better To Follow The Shepard 00:00 Tools
1 2 7x a Werewolf 00:00 Tools
The Shepards Reach 00:00 Tools
Tongues that posess the earth instead 00:00 Tools
One Song in Seven Rests: Our First Ful... 00:00 Tools
Feed your sheep a burning lamb 00:00 Tools
We Don't Know How It Grows - r 00:00 Tools
Phoning It In 01/11/07 00:00 Tools
You Wouldn`t Embarrass Me, Would You 00:00 Tools
What Great Thing...! 00:00 Tools
Those Who Are Saved Say, "I'm 00:00 Tools
Put a New Like in Me 00:00 Tools
it is better to follow the shepard 00:00 Tools
Tongues That Passess the Earth Instead 00:00 Tools
We're greatly loved 00:00 Tools
animals are cut in two. 00:00 Tools
05 Praise Awaits You 00:00 Tools
I Got Arrested 00:00 Tools
On Song in Seven Rests: Tuck Us in,... 00:00 Tools
Secret Christmas Costume 00:00 Tools
You Wouldn't Embarrass Me Would You 00:00 Tools
ALGO - Oh, It's Christmastime Again! - John Ringhofer 00:00 Tools
You Call Yourself Our Shepard? (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Out of Crudeness/ Healing 00:00 Tools
Half-Handed Cloud - Hydrological Cycle 00:00 Tools
Pressing Into It. 00:00 Tools
Heb. 11:6 [Soul-Junk] 00:00 Tools
Famine's hard 00:00 Tools
Fresh Bitter from the Same Spring 00:00 Tools
Tongues That Posses The Earth Instead 00:00 Tools
Rainbow--Warbow 00:00 Tools
Once, Twice, Seven Times A Werewolf. 00:00 Tools
I'm The Blinder. 00:00 Tools
You've Been Faithfull To Us Cl 00:00 Tools
You've Been Faithful To Us Clo 00:00 Tools
A Suit Of Clouds To Ride The S 00:00 Tools
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John Ringhofer, the man behind the moniker, is an economical thinker. Ringhofer prefers the subway over a taxicab, is a recycler of plastic, a compulsive note-taker, and a habitual optimist. He doodles in the margins of National Geographic magazines, carries several different colored pens, and continues to use an antiquated CD walkman. When not on tour solo or as the trombonist for Sufjan Stevens' Illinoisemakers, he lives rent-free in Berkeley, California in exchange for his services as a custodian in a church. His music encapsulates his struggle to make sense of his life and his passions. In Half-Handed Cloud, this is expressed as an all-consuming search for God. Like Brother Danielson, Half-Handed Cloud is able to ensconce complicated theological concepts into playground song without condescention towards the subject or to his listeners. Born in a pink hospital in Hawaii to military parents, Ringhofer's make-the-point-and-move-on songwriting reflects the nomadic, drill sergeant lifestyle of those early years, with melodies clocking in as quick and efficient song packages. With a name loosely taken from an occurrence in the Old Testament, the celestial telephone is ringing for Half-Handed Cloud with a message of love and hope on the other end. Unlimited by his status as a solo artist, Half-Handed Cloud stages unpredictable multi-instrument/media performances with the spontaneous gusto of an Electric Company superhero. Full of spirited humor, he dissolves any obstacles standing in the way of his innocent bulldozing, jam-packing a sixties sensibility, the touch of a lullaby, and murmurs of divine redemption into micro-narrative and Casio sound effects. Just as fingers begin to snap in time, the artist wraps it up and crackles to conclusion. A trombonist since the age of ten, Ringhofer picked up the guitar as a teenager while recovering from toe surgery. This same musical destiny propelled him to ask and answer such musical questions as, "What does an air conditioner sound like backwards?" Watching the artist equip himself with the sounds of a 1960's era Sears particleboard guitar, air organ, chattering dolls, stomping on the kitchen floor, and various sixties-pop influences, one may begin to perceive an invisible pattern in the songster's art deco rug. If such inspired titles such as "Tanning Beds to Shine Your Love," "Holy Pouch Shoe Guidance," and "If Before We Were Coughing," suggest many questions, the songs themselves take a humble and hilarious stab at providing the answers. Surely a cause for rejoicing, fans of Half-handed Cloud will make a joyful noise in the style of the artist's songwriting: dazzlingly sweet, and dizzingly short. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.