Setting: Shone a Rainbow Light (Paradise of Bachelors, 2023)
September 30, 2023 at 3:06 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Setting: Shone a Rainbow Light
Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors project increasingly went in a cosmic Americana direction with its last few albums, and here the harmonium/synth master teams up with Black Twig Pickers’ Nathan Bowles and drummer Joe Westerlund (Megafaun, Califone, many other projects).
Setting’s debut album starts with “We Center”, a magnificently zoned-out piece more on the Krautrock/raga end of things. Then “Zoetropics” mixes harmonium drifting with choppy rhythms and banjo, making me think of Penguin Cafe but also going somewhere they wouldn’t dare. “A Sun Harp” is more of an Alice Coltrane-esque spiritual jazz excursion, with hypnotic zither and piano working splendidly against rapidly tumbling drums and washes of synths and strings. “Fog Glossaries” is a much more melancholy, rolling procession with tolling bells and eventually drums that sound like a train rumbling by. All four tracks are very different, and they’re all pretty fantastic, so it seems like this project could go in any number of directions from here.
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