Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 1 (“Cliffs”)

And this marks the final entry in the track - by - track reversal countdown to the button , on February 13 , 2014 , the Clarence Day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 serial . It is a love life alphabetic character to Aphex Twin ’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its 20th anniversary this yr , less than a month after my Quran ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin Holy Scripture atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The design is to do this countdown in the rearward order , from last track to first . For reference , an early draft of the introduction is on-line , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter table of depicted object . The book ’s publishing company postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the written material process .

There is some irony to doing this countdown since the book is already shipping to tribe who pre - ordered it via an on-line retailer such asAmazon , but the prescribed date stands , and that ’s the target — the end date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s deserving , while the physical copies are mailing now from retailers , the Kindle version wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital version costs less .

As I ’ve note onTwitter , this caterpillar track - a - twenty-four hour period approach shot is just the inverse of the Word of God ’s approach , which is a collection of interrelated , reporting - base essays .

I am enjoying seeing the Scripture pop up in mass ’s Twitter and Instagram feeds :

prodigious felicitation to@disquieton today ’s spill of his 33 1/3 Holy Scripture : SAWII . More here : http://t.co / VReoTnTle2pic.twitter.com / WXILLPRkc2

— Boon ( @boondesign)February 13 , 2014

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Second only to perhaps “ Blue Calx , ” which is the album ’s centerpiece and the close matter it has to a individual , the opening track is the most intimate , if only because as it comes first , its start , if not its culture , is clearly discernible . The rest of the album can become a constant , curious whole except to particularly attentive hearer . It has been widely adopted , and used in film ( in the book I speak with two directors who used it in their oeuvre , Lucy Walker and Jordan Melamed ) . It ’s a sinuous piece , with a hint of a outspoken , perhaps a female , whose wavering is a human estimation of the waveforms that institute much of the record record album .

Here it is in a performance by Alarm Will voice . I talk with the composer who transcribe the work and with the ensemble ’s music manager for the book :

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