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Setting Sun is a band with a rotating lineup led by frontman and producer Gary Levitt. The first release was aptly titled 'holed up' in 2002 and was written and recorded in San Francisco CA.

Born in Queens NY, Levitt has been playing music since he picked up a guitar in high school and immediately began writing songs. Studying film and music in college, Levitt’s music has taken him around the world, living in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and New York where he's worked with a wide array of artists and producers, both well above and under the radar. Levitt’s songs have appeared in a number of television shows, commercials, and independent films, and most recently, “Morning Song” from "Children of the Wild" was used in a campaign for The National Parks Foundation.

Levitt usually plays most of the instruments on Setting Sun records, but gets help from friends and other talented musicians for such instruments as violin, cello, trumpet and sometimes drums.

Setting Sun continue to tour extensively. They've toured Europe twice so far, playing as far east as Poland and as far west as Portugal and all countries in between. They've also toured the USA multiple times building up a fan base grass roots style.

Driven by simple acoustic guitar lines, graceful string orchestrations, and Levitt's hushed vocals, Setting Sun's songwriting, arrangements and lyrics were called "dramatic and poignant" by NPR. The sound is centered around the song with poppy hooks and choruses while mixing synth experimentalism in with its folky, string-band sound. The new record "Fantasurreal" (2010) introduced trumpets into the multi-instrument fold. It is tough to characterize the sound of the band as it is crossover music between indie-rock, folk and chamber pop.