Maroon Cloud, an eight-part suite by celebrated flutist Nicole Mitchell, is a paean to the human gift of imagination. The follow-up to 2017's Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, it features a drum-less quartet with Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid, pianist Aruán Ortiz and vocalist Fay Victor, and was recorded live at National Sawdust in Brooklyn as part of John Zorn's Stone Commissioning Series.