HALF-HANDED CLOUD - AS STOWAWAYS IN CABINETS OF SURF (LP)

Half-Handed Cloud As Stowaways In Cabinets Of Surf on Vinyl LP

Asthmatic Kitty Records presents the fifth Half-Handed Cloud full-length album: As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth, or Stowaways for short. Connected with the lyrical tradition of 19th Century American hymns such as “Shall We Gather at the River?” “Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?” and “There Shall Be Showers of Blessing,” these tunes splash about in cavernous spaces opened up by irregularly measured rhythms and pocket-orchestra arrangements integrated with creaky pianos, sound-loops, a tugboat of a church organ, guitars, and billowing banjos.

Half-handed Cloud’s John Ringhofer recorded this album on his half-inch reel-to-reel tape machine in the sanctuary and custodial quarters of a church in Berkeley, California, where he’s lived and worked as a custodian for the past seven years. He played most of the parts himself, joined by friends on cello, clarinet, violin, trumpet, and flute. Brandon Buckner, one-third of Ringhofer’s former band, Wookieback, is behind the drum-kit for the duration of this record. The album was mixed with Daniel Smith (Danielson) at Familyre Studio in Clarksboro, New Jersey.

Half-Handed Cloud As Stowaways In Cabinets Of Surf Track Listing

1.  Into Jars
2.  The Sea Has No Face
3.  You Flagged us Down With a Wave
4.  Splashdowns Hold the Hymnal Together
5.  Maritime Rites
6.  Guy With Driftwood Skin
7.  Source of the Watercourse
8.  Armstrong’s Line
9.  Hydrological Cycle
10. Fresh & Bitter from the Same Spring
11. Sonar Sends Bells To and Fro
12. Out on the Ice, We Face Our Hearts
13. I’m Over the Need to Bail
14. Look, the Clouds Have Got You Again!
15. Divers Divers
16. Liberty Bell
17. You’ll Sea
18. Lunar Tears, Timed by Tides
19. Set Your Beams
20. Beachcomber’s Ultralight
21. Concentric Groups of Mirrored Loops
22. Command the Wind & Water Inside Me
23. Brooks Embracing Burdens
24. Resting in the Current
25. How is a Water-Walker Like a Cleft-Stasher?