You need to look no further than the album cover from a new release from British jazz musician Matthew Halsall to know that art and nature both play a critical part in his work. His LP An Ever Changing View has to be one of the most beautiful vinyl packages ever produced. The two record set doesn't stop there, it also contains some really interesting music as well. 

Along with art his other non-musical influence is the natural world. His music is a blend of jazz and deeply meditative influences that’s in tune with the natural world. In fact he wrote much of the album while staying in a house overlooking the North Sea in England.

There are artists and writers that create works about nature but there are also others who use nature as a jumping off point. But what about musicians? We can go back 300 years and see, how yes even then, nature played a part in the creation of music. And it still does today.