It's February in Wisconsin. A perfect time for the trippy, poetic beauty of some new tracks from Milwaukee's Painted Caves, with vocal harmonies and the sprawling instrumentals of everything from oud to bass to darbuka that takes you anywhere from the West Bank of Palestine to a California beach and beyond.
When Jeff Poniewaz and Antler created the Earth Poets in 1988, they knew the mortal coil was becoming more mortal, spring more silent, extreme weather more prevalent, and that climate change warnings were mostly unheard or denied.