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- Summary: This is the debut release from Black Twig Pickers/Pelt's Nathan Bowles, Mind Over Mirrors' Jaime Fennelly and Megafaun's Joe Westerlund as Setting.
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- Record Label: Paradise of Bachelors
- Genre(s): Experimental, Drone
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UncutSep 25, 2023Together, the North Carolina instrumental trio revel in heady improvisatory zones. .... There's no lead voice here, just three musicians moving as one. [Nov 2023, p.32]
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Sep 25, 2023You could say that not much happens in Shone a Rainbow Light On, that it moves slowly and doesn’t progress in any linear way, but that would be missing out on the blessed stillness and calm that lives in these tracks.
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MojoSep 25, 2023High-end reference points for a record that spectacularly reconciles micro-detailed improv with deep-listening ambience. [Nov 2023, p.90]
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Sep 25, 2023Richly textural and delicately performed, Setting exude a lingering warmth, their edges softened as if left out in the sun. It’s lethargic in all the right ways, untroubled by the need to shock or surprise its audience – and yet surprise it does.
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The WireSep 25, 2023On four extended tracks, Fennelly’s various keyboards (synthesizer, harmonium, piano) function as kind of bedrock that deftly accommodates a variety of tacks and textures from his partners. [Oct 2023, p.53]
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Oct 4, 2023Though Settings’ music sprawls, it feels minimalistic in practice, exploring just a couple of chords like Philip Glass and encouraging deeper listening like Pauline Oliveros.