Half Handed Cloud - As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth

•    One of Asthmatic Kitty’s most longstanding artists returns with his brand new 25 song collection.

• Half Handed Cloud has been releasing records on Asthmatic Kitty since its inception.

•    One of the most loved artists on the label – his work is at once simple and affecting yet profound and ornate.

•    Half-handed Cloud is an interesting phenomenon. John Ringhofer, the man behind the namesake, is as joyful and frugal as his music.

•    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 paperbacks, carries a couple different colored pens, and continues to use an antiquated CD walkman.

• When not on tour solo, as the trombonist for Sufjan Stevens' Illinoisemakers, or as the occasional bassist for Danielson, he lives in Berkeley California and works as a part-time custodian.

•    His music encapsulates his struggle to make sense of his life. In Half-handed Cloud this is expressed as an all- consuming search for God. Half-handed Cloud is able to ensconce complicated theological concepts into playground song without condescending to his subject or to his listener.

•    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 dizzyingly short.

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