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Flying Scroll Flight Control

by Half-handed Cloud

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Adam Bates
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Adam Bates The Bible deserves weirdos reinterpreting it & putting it in new context & disobeying song structure & warping tapes to perfection. Favorite track: Pneumatic Mystery Envelopes.
Luke Fowler
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Luke Fowler The record to show to your friends when they say that Christian music is a joke. Favorite track: Sensei Says.
Asher
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Asher This album is incredible! I don't know how many times I have showed this to friends as my favourite example of scripture in song. Favorite track: Sensei Says.
Michael Minkoff
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Michael Minkoff Scrappy, eclectic, quirky, and sincere. In other words, Flying Scroll Flight Control is a fantastic Half-Handed Cloud record. Favorite track: He Can’t Deny Himself.
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Half-handed Cloud’s John Ringhofer began writing songs for what would become Flying Scroll Flight Control a few months after the release of 2010’s Stowaways album. He’d married, moved out of the Berkeley, CA church he’d lived in since 2003, and into an Oakland, CA co-housing community.

The album features a 5-person female choir, manipulated recording tape, fuzz bass, clarinet, some piano, a child’s Magnus air organ, rhythmic zipper, trombone, a cushioned stylophone stick, and intermittent backpacker guitar. As a holdover from the Belgian demos, Ringhofer and friends also frequently repurposed objects into instruments for homemade sound effects—not unlike Beuys’ use of honey, fat, or hare’s blood as painting mediums.

Flying Scroll Flight Control exhibits a restored perception of mystery, the magnetic draw of arcane and peculiar visions. It gathers sound and supplies it with structure, harmonizing the rift between the physical and the metaphysical. These are songs that sing in multiple spaces.

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released June 10, 2014

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Half-handed Cloud Helsinki, Finland

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

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