Musical Collaboration

Jazz bandleader Donny McCaslin reunited other veterans of David Bowie’s final album for an orchestral adaptation he says is moving the artistry of “Blackstar” forward.

Composer Christopher Stark teamed with innovative cello-percussion group New Morse Code for “The Language of Landscapes,” a piece that melds field recordings from nature with sounds wrung out of discarded items like plastic bags. The album includes remixes by St. Louis artists Mvstermind and Adult Fur.

The artistic path of Brian Owens has long charted both tribute territory and totally new ground, and Owens is known to navigate both well. The local…