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 creating an atmosphere that is both serene and spellbinding. Their intricate playing 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 that fluidly guides every nuance of their music. Passionate improvisers, with several years of collaboration behind them, the band members have developed a musical language and a sense of rhythm all 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.