Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 21 (“Lichen”)

I am going to do this track - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the solar day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series . It is a love letter to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its 20th anniversary this twelvemonth , less than a month after my book ’s publishing . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The plan is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last lead to first . For reference , an early draft of the introduction is online , as isthe playscript ’s seven - chapter mesa of contents . The book ’s publishing house postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the authorship process .

There is some caustic remark to doing this countdown since the playscript is already shipping to common people who pre - arrange it via an online retailer such asAmazon , but the official date stands , and that ’s the target — the remainder date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s worth , while the physical copies are post now from retailer , the Kindle reading wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital variant cost less .

“ Lichen ” has one of the most beautiful proper melodies on the book . It is characteristic of Aphex Twin at his sweetest — as in the oft - licensed “ Avril 14″ and this record ’s “ Blue Calx . ” In my book , the person who sign Aphex Twin to Sire Records in the United States jokes about how she ’d discourage British musician off signing with Sire in the U.K. , as they ’d just end up on a recording label with Enya . It is not to Aphex Twin ’s discredit that this track might sound alright in a playlist alongside Enya . The lilting strain bears some similarity to a melodic theme from James Horner ’s music for James Cameron ’s Titanic , which came out three years later , in 1997 .

Speaking of 1997 , here ’s a translation reportedly register live at the Glastonbury fete in 1997 :

This is a remix by Wisp , who subsequently signed to a small label atomic number 27 - run by Aphex , phone Rephlex . There ’s a scrap more about him in the Scripture :

Here ’s a interpretation slow down down importantly — the track is 17 minutes long , compared to its original distance of around four minutes . It ’s remarkable how the melodic phrase is still apparent :

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