The Setting The Setting
1. Corner Song
2. By the Light of the Moon
3. I Will Have to Whisper This
4. Sacromonte
5. Flourishing Flakes
6. Hold On Tight to Your Music
7. Sivilisasjon i Rommet
8. Time to Wake Up
9. Union Plans
10. The Big Yard
This stunning ten-song record brings to fruition a seed that Eivind Opsvik has been carrying with him for about a decade. Sounds and sensibilities that have enchanted the composer and bassist take form in a very particular combination long dreamt of: The Setting honors Opsvik’s love of 70s and 80s synthesizer music, ECM solo guitar albums, and experimental art pop, but sets these aesthetics in a considered conversation with boldly acoustic elements like the earthy upright bass, acoustic guitar, and harpsichord.
This juxtaposition, only emphasized by the conspicuous and artful absence of a drummer, makes for a dreamlike listening experience, persuasive and melancholic –– inviting rumination and playing with though never fully giving into nostalgia. The Setting is uncanny.
