Learning About Your Scale, by Half-handed Cloud

Learning About Your Scale

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1.	Worlds in Speech, Now in Reach! 01:51	buy track
2.	Let's Build a Planet 01:18	buy track
3.	Look How We Made These People 00:46	buy track
4.	Eating Bad-Bad Fruit 00:17	buy track
5.	Serpent Head Crushed 01:38	buy track
6.	Baby Moon 01:05	buy track
7.	If Before We Were Coughing 00:58	buy track
8.	Can't Even Breathe on My Own Two Feet 01:09	buy track
9.	Hope for Clean Theme 00:25	buy track
10.	Stew Burny-Burn 00:18	buy track
11.	Don't Want to Be Dirty 00:22	buy track
12.	Make Us Clean 00:22	buy track
13.	Put a New Life in Me 00:38	buy track
14.	Rewire My Desire 01:08	buy track
15.	We Must Be Ploughed-Up 02:00	buy track
16.	So Busted Before Your Righteous Throne 00:57	buy track
17.	Tanning Beds to Shine Your Love 01:12	buy track
18.	Holy Pouch Shoe Guidance 00:34	buy track
19.	Make Me All Petered-Out 00:45	buy track
20.	Three to Guide Us Where We've Never Been pt.1 00:23	buy track
21.	Three to Guide Us Where We've Never Been pt.2 00:36	buy track
22.	Three to Guide Us Where We've Never Been pt.3 00:14	buy track
23.	Body Binds Us 00:41	buy track
24.	Secret Christ Costume 02:22	buy track
25.	To Love Like the Father and Son Love Each Other 01:57	buy track

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With great joy, Asthmatic Kitty and Soundsfamilyre announce the reappearance of Half-handed Cloud's "Learning About Your Scale." Originally released by Corner Room Records in 1999, the reissue of multi-instrumentalist John Ringhofer's crazy quilt collection of divinely-inspired miniatures, together with his recent appearance at the Cornerstone Festival's New Band Showcase (July, 2001), is certain to delight all seekers of the fresh and different.

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released December 1, 1999

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"It's like an even more hyperactive Danielson, but with less reliance on metaphor and symbolism... less Beefheartian, more Elephant 6-ian. 'Scale' also reminds me of the last couple of records by The Microphones, in the sense that, though anything could happen at any time, there's still a thread running through it all... a baroque minimalism that compresses songs in time, but keeps them sonically vibrant..." Pitchfork.com, Nov. 27th 2001

"This group, made up of 20 participants but all songs written by John Ringhofer, have a patchwork of a debut, the obvious legacy of the Danielson Famile (whose own label co-released this) but with their own tricks up their sleeves. Their short-attention-span musical quilt is made from swatches of early '70s Paul Simon's pop, Olivia Tremor Control's rambling psychedelia, and Daniel Johnston's halting instrumentation, with an erratic rhythmic sense that is quite their own. Very fun and very naif, sent from heaven in the form of tiny pop melodies. Creative and understated, it's truly a work from 'outside the box', and I look forward to hearing more from them." Other Music [NYC]

"The tracks range from being perfectly formed miniature songs through to snippets that come to an end before you know what’s happened. In addition to that, you have to contend with quirky arrangements that will both delight and confound. Yet none of the songs feel either too long or too short, they just say what they have to say and then end; a rare quality these days. 'Learning About Your Scale' is the very definition of an acquired taste, and it will probably send equal numbers racing for the "stop” button or the "repeat” button. Just make sure you know which group you belong to before purchase." Exclaim.ca [Canada]

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Tiny, spirited, scrappy investments in melody & arrangement-- homemade pocket-symphony pop sound collage.

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