Ten years after its first album, Ghost-Note is something different than Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth envisioned when they started the group in Dallas.

The two -- Searight on drums and keyboards, Werth on percussion -- were members of the eclectic collective Snarky Puppy back in 2014. But they had a desire to do something more percussion-based, which led to the concept of Ghost-Note and the group’s 2015 debut, “Fortified” which, not unlike Snarky Pappy, blended elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, as well as EDM.

But after three albums, including last year’s “Mustard n’ Onions,” Searight acknowledges that Ghost-Note has kept evolving beyond its original intent.

“It was a percussion duo,” the Grammy Award-winning drummer recalls via Zoom from Dallas. “Although that’s still a par

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