Downes has increasingly drawn upon his youthful organ studies which has led to some remarkable projects, be it, among others, Vyamanikal on a series of church organs, his solo organ debut for ECM, and a commission for the Darmstadt Organ Festival where he worked with Burgwinkel.

Now the pair are re-united alongside Baas’ adventurous guitar in what might be among Downes’ more satisfying of alliances. An obvious comparison is with the original Lifetime trio and cuts like the title track have a certain jazz-rock intensity. Downes’ sustained ecclesiastical chords have something of Larry Young’s mystic sustain though necessarily coming from a European tradition.

But the sound world of Deadeye is more varied than a ‘traditional’ or jazz rock Hammond trio. Baas can make his guitar chime like a kalimba on ‘Mbira’, while ‘Stingaloon’ has something of Marc Ribot’s acid time shifts. There’s also a melodicism on for example ‘Sonatina’, with Downes somehow finding a sweet spot on what can be an unforgiving instrument. He also has the facility to summon raw emotion from the harmonium and pipe organ which again brings unexpected colours to the project.

And if at moments Deadeye can swerve into an intellectual knottiness then the emotional kick of ‘The Wayfaring Stranger’ (nearer in spirit to Haden’s heartbreaking vocal version than, say, Frisell), replete with a concluding sacred chord, keeps our feet on the ground and our spirit in the heavens.