Gathered Out of Thin Air
$24.98
Gathered Out Of Thin Air is a new Halfhanded Cloud (John Ringhofer) double LP compilation of sixty freshly mastered, non-LP singles, recorded throughout the band's second decade (2010-2019) from all over the world, released in multiple formats, and compiled from an array of seventeen different releases. Some of the sixty songs have thus far only seen digital release (such as 2015's twin home-taped sound collage pop releases Foiled EP No.1 & Foiled EP No.2), while others were released only on vinyl (2011's DOVE EP [which now features a new mix], and 2012's Blood Brothers EP). One 7-inch EP collected here consists entirely of analog synthesizer song experiments (2016's Jiminy Circuits). A significant batch of hard-to-find loose tracks were originally released on various compilations -digital, compact disc, given out with a festival ticket, or along with a CD-R zine compilation. Now, for the first time, they are available in one place: a 2xLP, released by Asthmatic Kitty Records in November of 2019.
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | What Are You? Surprise Us! | 1:39 |
| A2 | Nests in Chests | 3:26 |
| A3 | Peoples With Rubbed Out Steeples | 2:01 |
| A4 | Slip Through the Cracks | 2:12 |
| A5 | Gentle Instrumental | 1:01 |
| A6 | Turntable Turntable | 1:37 |
| A7 | Bathed in Palms | 2:01 |
| A8 | Gentle Perception | 2:13 |
| A9 | Here We Go Transformation | 1:09 |
| B1 | The Conscience of Cortés | 0:58 |
| B2 | Foiled by Captain Landecho | 0:17 |
| B3 | Francis Drake Dreaming | 1:45 |
| B4 | California | 0:34 |
| B5 | Roald Read the Passage | 0:58 |
| B6 | He Woke Me Up Again | 1:50 |
| B7 | Naaman | 1:56 |
| B8 | Needy Ones Hold Out | 1:02 |
| B9 | Intro | 0:13 |
| B10 | Mystery of Godliness | 2:08 |
| B11 | Tapes | 0:44 |
| B12 | Let the Mind in You | 2:19 |
| B13 | Someone Pops Up | 0:25 |
| B14 | Train Yourselves in Godliness | 1:01 |
| B15 | Reminding | 0:57 |
| B16 | Anything | 0:32 |
| B17 | The Road I Took for Granite | 1:48 |
| B18 | Grace Be With You | 0:49 |
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Waltz | 0:29 |
| C2 | Deity Dwelling Bodily | 0:47 |
| C3 | For Our Sake | 0:58 |
| C4 | Reconciliation Grows Today | 1:37 |
| C5 | Your Outer Nature Wastes Away | 0:41 |
| C6 | All the Fullness of God Pleased to Dwell | 2:23 |
| C7 | Running Off With Balderdash | 1:18 |
| C8 | Frankly Corinthians | 1:26 |
| C9 | Let's Hum This Song Right Now | 1:04 |
| C10 | What Large Letters | 0:17 |
| C11 | We Wear the Path | 1:17 |
| C12 | Sleeves of the Forest | 0:34 |
| C13 | Branches Crowned Your Brow | 1:10 |
| C14 | Stumbled on a Holiness | 1:11 |
| C15 | Doing Battle With the Edge | 2:23 |
| C16 | Viscous Shadow of Cleopas | 1:25 |
| C17 | Tracing Circuits That You Tread | 1:52 |
| D1 | Gathered Out of Thin Air | 1:31 |
| D2 | Song for Different Eternities | 0:44 |
| D3 | I Heard the Sparks | 0:56 |
| D4 | We're Giving It a Chance | 1:11 |
| D5 | Backwards Through the Grate | 1:07 |
| D6 | Fingerplay on the Ribbon Waves | 0:42 |
| D7 | Antennas Extend | 1:26 |
| D8 | You Came to Disappear | 1:13 |
| D9 | A Favorite Christmas Gag Gift | 1:11 |
| D10 | Öh, It's Christmastime Again! | 1:47 |
| D11 | The Cloud Became a Baby to Be With Us | 0:55 |
| D12 | Nativity Play Time Travel Tunnel | 1:05 |
| D13 | It's Advent! Let's Open the Calendar! | 0:17 |
| D14 | And Suddenly [From Handel's Messiah] | 0:17 |
| D15 | Nativity Costume (2000 Year's Eve) | 2:13 |
| D16 | All They That See Him Laugh [From Handel's Messiah] | 1:08 |