The melismatic melodies that weave and waggle like a snake being charmed by a celestial reed slip like a thread through all the cuts on this release by pianist Borah Bergman, accompanied by Greg Cohen on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums.

While being a traditional piano trio, this is no traditional jazz set. The three instruments respond freely to the lines and harmonies of compositions with evocative titles like "Quantum", "Candela" and "Parallax." The effect is metaphysical and the glow promised by the title (and visually represented by a gorgeously radiant detail from poet-painter William Blake's "Ancient of Days" on the cover) is amply delivered.

The liner notes tell us Bergman is influenced by "cantorial singing, the counterpoint of Bach and the harmonic beauty of Alban Berg and Bill Evans,' and that too makes sense after being enveloped in the soothing rapture of this sonorous and inventive series of pieces that bleed one into the other, reaching a kind of climax in "Luma," the fifth and penultimate track, when the keening, ecstatic alto sax of John Zorn arises from the depths to join the choral levitation.

The set ends with a soothing retreat in "Opacity," and the listener is left cleansed and purged by music that is both profoundly earthy and sublimely transcendent.