Combining everything under the musical sun seems to be fashionable these days. With more than a dozen instruments—including piano, bass clarinet and oud—and a strange bedfellows musical style spanning moonlit café introspection, doo-wop folk and brassy Sgt. Pepper reggae pop, Art of Flying’s concept could be messy. I’m not sure it isn’t, but then again, one gets the feeling that not appreciating a CD such as this will brand you uncultured. Showing my ignorance, I’d pick the more accessible songs like the surfing and spying tone of “KALIYUGA, BABY!” or the breathy cello-backed Kate Bush / Tori Amos hybrid title track. (CA)