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RACHEL’S- Systems/ Layers
Systems/Layers is music composed for a multi-disciplinary piece by the New York based dance/theater company SITI. Systems/Layers unfolds from the perspective of an international tourist watching the lives of a handful of urban dwellers as they negotiate the demands of modern everyday urban existence, juxtaposing the hustle and bustle and sense of time/space compression of the big city with the small prosaic features of contemporary life. The music demonstrates the full range of Rachel’s commendable abilities, combining rich strings and piano with field recordings, occasional noisy ambience and rock instrumentation. Systems/Layers also features a female vocalist on one track, unusual for the otherwise instrumental Rachel’s, which brings out a quality similar in atmosphere to This Mortal Coil, a rewarding reverie that brings the recording together. Another evocative, expertly played and long overdue recording by the always smart Rachel’s.