Playing guitar and synthesizer, Barry Coates teams up with the wondrous fusion bassist Jimmy Haslip and nimble drummer Jerry Kalaf on this sublime collection of modern fusion originals. Coates’ guitar work is fluid and lyrical, spacious over Kalaf’s pulsating cymbals on “Towner” and reverberating on an acoustic tribute to an old musical and recently departed friend on “Mays”. Synthscapes are created by Coates and coaxed along by Kalaf and Haslip on the gorgeous “Retrograde” while the team creates ambient effects on “Transcendent”. Some organic Bach sounds are evocative for “Before” while gentle chords are strummed on the impressionistic “Faith”. Mellow majesty.