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.
Pneumatic Mystery Envelopes
Sensei Says
What Spins, By Your Hand Was Spun
Debtors To Greeks & Barbarians
Titus Three
We Toil and Struggle
He’s Already On Everyone’s Side
Psychic Failure, Utmost Patience
Enlightenment in the Way
Even if Angels Arrive With Plausible News
Festus, I Am Not Out of My Mind
He Can’t Deny Himself
We Speak of What We Know
Live As the Children of Light Inside of You
Secret Wisdom Intervening
Tablets Breathing Their Last Breath
Now the Veiled Faces Can Breathe
Flying Scroll Flight Patrol
Items typically ship within 3 business days if not in pre-order. US orders are shipped from Ohio, and all orders outside of the US ship from Kraków, Poland. Shipping speed and delivery times vary. Expedited shipping not available.
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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.
Pneumatic Mystery Envelopes
Sensei Says
What Spins, By Your Hand Was Spun
Debtors To Greeks & Barbarians
Titus Three
We Toil and Struggle
He’s Already On Everyone’s Side
Psychic Failure, Utmost Patience
Enlightenment in the Way
Even if Angels Arrive With Plausible News
Festus, I Am Not Out of My Mind
He Can’t Deny Himself
We Speak of What We Know
Live As the Children of Light Inside of You
Secret Wisdom Intervening
Tablets Breathing Their Last Breath
Now the Veiled Faces Can Breathe
Flying Scroll Flight Patrol
Items typically ship within 3 business days if not in pre-order. US orders are shipped from Ohio, and all orders outside of the US ship from Kraków, Poland. Shipping speed and delivery times vary. Expedited shipping not available.
