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my friend bendy is putting on this show. it will be good and it is free, so it would be a worthwhile thing to go to if you're looking for some monday night springtime fun.
monday, april 11th
8:15 p.m.
taylor university student union
upland, indiana
FREE
half-handed cloud
"Unlimited by his status as a solo artist, Half-handed Cloud stages unpredictable multi-instrumental/media performances with the spontaneous gusto of an Electric Company superhero. Full of spirited humor, he dissolves any obstacles standing in the way of his innocent bulldozing, jam-packing a sixties sensibility, the touch of a lullaby, and murmurs of divine redemption into micro-narrative and Casio sound effects. Just as fingers begin to snap in time, the artist wraps it up and crackles to conclusion.
A seasoned veteran of the indie rock theater del'absurde, John has shared stages and sensibilities with good friends The Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens, June Panic, Soul-junk, The Singing Mechanic, Jai Agnish, and other such notables as Deerhoof, The Mountain Goats, Of Montreal, and The Music Tapes. While his former band Wookieback was well known in Tennessee for songs about outer space, robots, and childhood heroes, Half-handed Cloud marries the same sense of play to explorations of ultimate purpose. This gentle jumping bean perhaps resembles a Frank Zappa with a clean mouth and a clear-headed Brian Wilson teaming up for Sunday services. A trombonist since the age of ten, Ringhofer picked up the guitar as a teenager while recovering from toe surgery. This same musical destiny propelled him to ask and answer such musical questions as, "What does an air conditioner sound like backwards?" Watching the artist equip himself with the sounds of a 1960's era Sears particleboard guitar, air organ, chattering dolls, stomping on the kitchen floor, and various sixties-pop influences, one may begin to perceive an invisible pattern in the songster's art deco rug."
liz janes
pitchfork says that some of her songs remind them of burger king commercials.
vollmar
"Musically, he sounds simultaneously old (maybe Donovan or Townes Van Zandt) and new (maybe Warn Defever or The Microphones).
Structurally, it may be said that the record has more in common with the experimental films of Stan Brakage or Hollis Frampton than with any particular musical artist of our time. And like J.D.Salinger's 9 Stories, each of the songs are about seperate people who collectively make a family of sorts."
monday, april 11th
8:15 p.m.
taylor university student union
upland, indiana
FREE
half-handed cloud
"Unlimited by his status as a solo artist, Half-handed Cloud stages unpredictable multi-instrumental/media performances with the spontaneous gusto of an Electric Company superhero. Full of spirited humor, he dissolves any obstacles standing in the way of his innocent bulldozing, jam-packing a sixties sensibility, the touch of a lullaby, and murmurs of divine redemption into micro-narrative and Casio sound effects. Just as fingers begin to snap in time, the artist wraps it up and crackles to conclusion.
A seasoned veteran of the indie rock theater del'absurde, John has shared stages and sensibilities with good friends The Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens, June Panic, Soul-junk, The Singing Mechanic, Jai Agnish, and other such notables as Deerhoof, The Mountain Goats, Of Montreal, and The Music Tapes. While his former band Wookieback was well known in Tennessee for songs about outer space, robots, and childhood heroes, Half-handed Cloud marries the same sense of play to explorations of ultimate purpose. This gentle jumping bean perhaps resembles a Frank Zappa with a clean mouth and a clear-headed Brian Wilson teaming up for Sunday services. A trombonist since the age of ten, Ringhofer picked up the guitar as a teenager while recovering from toe surgery. This same musical destiny propelled him to ask and answer such musical questions as, "What does an air conditioner sound like backwards?" Watching the artist equip himself with the sounds of a 1960's era Sears particleboard guitar, air organ, chattering dolls, stomping on the kitchen floor, and various sixties-pop influences, one may begin to perceive an invisible pattern in the songster's art deco rug."
liz janes
pitchfork says that some of her songs remind them of burger king commercials.
vollmar
"Musically, he sounds simultaneously old (maybe Donovan or Townes Van Zandt) and new (maybe Warn Defever or The Microphones).
Structurally, it may be said that the record has more in common with the experimental films of Stan Brakage or Hollis Frampton than with any particular musical artist of our time. And like J.D.Salinger's 9 Stories, each of the songs are about seperate people who collectively make a family of sorts."