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Systems/Layers | 
| Artist: Rachel's
Label: Quarterstick
Category: Music
Buy New: £14.19
New (19) Used (6) from £8.20
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 67181
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 75
UPC: 036172007523
EAN: 0036172007523
ASIN: B0000D1FED
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Moscow Is In The Telephone | | • | Water From The Same Source | | • | Systems/Layers | | • | Expect Delays | | • | Arterial | | • | Even/Odd | | • | Wouldn't Live Anywhere Else | | • | Esperanza | | • | Packet Switching | | • | Where Have All My Files Gone | | • | Reflective Surfaces | | • | Unclear Channel | | • | Last Things Last | | • | Anytime Soon | | • | Airconditioning (A Closed Feeling) | | • | Singing Bridge | | • | And Keep Smiling | | • | 4 Or 5 Trees | | • | NY Snow Globe |
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| Customer Reviews:
Let it hypnotize you December 2, 2003
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Systems/Layers is the band's fifth album, and it's a brilliant ambient musical experience.
You can tune it out if you choose and it'll still enhance your surroundings, or you can engage yourself fully and allow it to positively hypnotize you.
Though virtually all of Systems/Layers possesses Rachel's characteristic modern chamber ensemble sound, there are dozens of field recordings and sampled voices that seep in around the edges, mostly drawn from source material sent to the band by friends and fans, and they serve to heighten the immediacy of the music and increase its sense of place.
Virtually every song here conjures urban streets and dwellings, but each does so with a different set of sources: "Wouldn't Live Anywhere Else" takes the more obvious route, melding samples of ice cream trucks, children playing, people mumbling, birds, and sirens with the sparsest of drones, while "Esperanza", a gorgeous, entirely organic chamber piece, manages the same with strings and woodwinds.
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