Lifted’s recordings chase the feeling of being a “fly on the wall,” of witnessing a musical moment emerge as if you were right there in the studio with them. The many-aliased duo of Andrew Field-Pickering and Matt Papich invite a rotating cast of instrumentalists to unspool their ideas and discover the results — sometimes finding loping grooves, often fanning out into roaming ambience that they further process with computers and CDJs. You’re asked to devote attention to a few layers of abstraction at once: The analog improvisers are finding common ground in the room, while the duo’s digital wayfinding structures the music, organizes the personnel, and charts new paths for them all to travel together. It’s a challenging proposition that requires the right…