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OFFICIAL SITE OF THE SEVEN FIELDS OF APHELION
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Where the Polaroid camera captures a single moment in all of its hazy spontaneity, a toy lomography camera can be rigged to layer multiple exposures on top of each other.  The Seven Fields of Aphelion, the solo project of Black Moth Super Rainbow’s keyboardist, dabbles in lomography and takes special care to juxtapose natural landscapes with industrial landscapes.  Opposites merge into a unified form and convey more than the sum of their parts.  And on Seven Fields of Aphelion’s debut-album Periphery, a twoness is also always at work–nostalgic piano licks weave over late-afternoon synth swells and flawlessly project images of puffy clouds tumbling through a blue sky.  “Michigan Icarus” epitomizes this duality with lucid chords and brief, irreverent arpeggios tracing over what sounds like a hyper-amplified cricket’s song.  Periphery is the perfect summer get-lost-in-a-field-soundtrack for fans of Boards of Canada and Max Richter.