It’s possible to trace a strain of contemporary improvised music back to (or at least through) the pivotal 1970s meetings of infinite trumpet explorer Don Cherry and minimalist quester Terry Riley when their respective horizons aligned to generate an even wider landscape. On their second studio album, and fifth overall, the North Carolina trio Setting tend their own field in this vast electroacoustic openness, rhythm and drone pointing further outward across five sculpted improvisations, ready for the latest of nights or the earliest of mornings. Though they leave themselves plenty of room to explore, they also jump directly to the dreamiest vistas. Setting’s live releases and studio debut, 2021’s Shone A Rainbow Light On , drifted through ambient cloud-shapes before almost imperceptibly taking flight. Here, the group achieves instant lift-off on the opening “Heard a Bubble” when a banjo pattern by Nathan Bowles is subsumed into layers of counter-rhythms and keyboard figures.…