Half-Handed Cloud - We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With hints of fitness music and video game sountracks, InchHalos & LassosInch tromps through nineteen songs like a mostly sunny afternoon in Berkeley, CA, home of band leader John Ringhofer. With the modal purity of Moondog, symphonic elements of Gershwin's InchRhapsody in BlueInch, and the ancient art of punning, the album boasts pop melodies arranged around the ambidextrous Omnichord - a vintage 80's kidney-shaped electronic autoharp/drum machine/synthesizer. Biblical allusions, sophisticated theology, and lyrical displays of affection are measured by Ringhofer's indelible sense of humor. Album Tracks 1. Earth Outside of Ghost Will Only Be Quicksand 2. Tongues That Possess the Earth Instead 3. Foot on the Brake 4. Suit of Clouds to Ride the Skies 5. Praise Awaits You 6. Rise to the Heavens on Evaporation 7. A Picnic Few Want to Attend 8. In You Now, But Still Below 9. Eyes Peeled 10. You Wouldn't Embarrass Me, Would You? 11. You've Been Faithful to Us Clouds 12. Skip the Rope 13. Celebrating Hearts Aligned 14. They're Bad, But We're Worse 15. A Bed That Breathes with Him 16. Feed Your Sheep a Burning Lamp 17. Rainbow = Warbow 18. A Tree Replanted Back in Eden 19. Place Your Wind Against My Sails

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 InchShall We Gather at the River?Inch InchAre You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?Inch and InchThere Shall Be Showers of Blessing,Inch 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. Album Tracks 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 Waterwalker Like a Cleft-Stasher?

Album Tracks 1. Blues Pour Miguel Enriquez/Chant Pour L'amérique Latine 2. Piano Dazibao 3. Vet Aqui Que Tenen Por Abrisme Galanica 4. Olendja 5. Heure Est À la Lutte 6. Mar Jo Cantar No Fabia/Mazir