Describing Cole as a pedal steel guitarist is like calling Turner a ‘watercolourist’. The art is all that matters, not the chosen medium. It's some 14 years since the original Transparent Music, which found Cole and Jackson re-imagining works by the likes of Ravel and Debussy. Such composers, with their translucent compositions, underwrite Transparent Music 2, but this ‘follow-up’, now features Cole and Jackson's own works. Cole's C'W heritage may drive the likes of ‘Country Vibe’ and ‘Star Day’, but this is country cosmically transformed (notably by Jackson's bleeps and beeps which bizarrely fit). The use of guests is also subtly superb. Henriksen's lyrical trumpet illumines ‘Monolith’ while the uilleann pipes of Spillane on ‘Free Air’ are as eerie as they are uplifting. It's all wrapped up by Messer's crystalline slide guitar, in Derek Trucks evening raga mode, on the closing ‘The Calm’. Gorgeous.