The international trio of Sicilian Gianni Gebbia (Bb soprano saxophone, cornettophone), New York-based San Franciscan Matthew Goodheart (grand piano, transducer-actuated gong), and Southern California-based Garth Powell (drums, percussion, gongs) pushes the limits of audio excellence, material sourcing, and jazz improvisation on its magnificent fourth album. That first quality is to be expected from Powell, Senior Director of Engineering at AudioQuest, and from the live two-track analog-to-analog recording process. (Only Dwight Trible’s guest vocals on the closing track received any digital adjustment.) A better-sounding new LP might be hard to find, and the unusual music deserves the amazing 3-D sonic staging and detail. The trio takes flight from medieval compositions, the Bach cello suites, and early Welsh folk melodies. Gebbia and Goodheart can bring Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor to mind. But when they flex their extended techniques, and Powell scatters drumkit rumbles and splashes, small percussion ticks, and echoing gongs all around the mix, the soundscape envelops you with dancing melodies, dense hums, smoky vapors, and swirling clouds. Some records you listen to from a distance. The best, like this one, draw you deep inside their unique sonic worlds.