The trio Setting, originally from the Piedmont of North Carolina, brings together its solid musical skills and collaborative, exploratory spirit, nourished by groups such as Mind Over Mirrors, Califone, Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Peeesseye, Sylvan Esso and Jake Xerxes Fussell, to create inventive and rich improvisations. Multi-instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly, Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund defy expectations while establishing an atmosphere that is both serene and mesmerizing. Their intricate interplay of synthesizers, cassette loops, banjo, keyboards, electronics, zithers and a multitude of percussion instruments forms a tactile amalgam between celestial transcendence and earthly rhythm, an organic pulse guiding each nuance of their music with fluidity. Passionate improvisers, with several years of collaboration behind them, the band members have developed a musical language and a sense of rhythm that are uniquely their own. Setting’s self-titled album is a definitive statement of their improvisational talent meeting compositional rigor, a robust source of hypnagogic grooves and mosaic textures.