The new song and video from Cloud Cult “feels like the prelude birthing of a new album,” according to bandleader Craig Minowa’s description on YouTube. “The ground this new musical nursery stands on was Ho Chunk. The Kickapoo River hugs this recording studio on three sides and is considered by some geologists to be one of the oldest in the world — 2 million years. There is spirit here, and it has stories to tell.”

The YouTube description begins with this text:

She ran up the changing hillside which was shapeshifting in metamorphic smoke, screaming “Daddy, it’s gone! The whole prairie burned to black nothing!” It seemed like the end of the world. Nothing green left. Even the cardinals grieving, all dressed in mourning black ash. Years later, she’d notice the fire left the soil richer…new seed could birth never before seen flowers. The transfiguration was painful but this new world could never have been imagined without it. Reintegration requires disintegration. “This whole damn creation is constantly falling apart so it can come back together into something new.” She thought. “It’s all burning to begin.”