Like New Amsterdam and Innova, composer John Zorn’s consistently reliable Tzadik label is dedicated to releasing some of the country’s most adventurous contemporary avant-garde and experimental music. New York–born composer Lee Hyla, who now lives in Chicago and teaches music composition at Northwestern, is a familiar face on the Tzadik roster. His third album for the label, Life on the Plains, follows the brilliantly quirky Wilson’s Ivory-bill from 2006, which featured a duet for piano and ivory-billed woodpecker.