Aphelion is an EP of 4 tracks - each inspired by a part of story set not too far in Earth's future. This is the first in a series of EP releases which will further this dark chapter in humanity's future.

1. Root Cause - Earth and its citizens find themselves at the end of the end game. Quickly declining fresh water supplies necessitated the development of nano-tech that could be used with plant root systems to aggressively seek out and better manage existing groundwater. Food supplies are in desperately short supply and plant-based food supplies are under serious threat. Countries suspend AI regulations and oversight in the hopes that this tech can help extend and improve the planet's ability to produce food.

At first it appears to be wildly successful.
Then it all goes horribly wrong?

2. The Lottery - Deepest fears realized - the AI has gone offline - and whether or not sentience is at play - the net result is that the super-enhanced root systems of hybridized plants around the world have all but locked down groundwater supplies. Surface plants have died off. Root system development below ground is happening at an astounding rate - far beyond comprehension. Inside of a year it is clear there will be no further plant based foods possible. Riots have broken out across the planet as water supplies disappear, believed to be consumed at impossible rates by the super-root-nano-Ai systems.

Essentially - this is the end-game. We tinkered, we lost. Escape from the planet is humanity's only hope. An international consortium of scientists, government representatives and industry leaders is hastily formed to plan humanity's one possible escape - a journey into space.

Soon after - The Lottery takes place. Who of the 16 billion persons will go? Those who do not face certain death. Those who do - unknown. Families, communities, cities and countries - torn apart by a choice that only 50,000 Travellers must make.

3. Build - The construction project to end them all - every country on Earth represented in the fullest and most comprehensive display of cooperation in history. Resources are delivered and used without money changing hands. Tasked with creating a spaceship that can be self-sufficient indefinitely, where dozens or hundreds of generations of humanity can survive while the search for habitable planets continues is without doubt the single biggest technological project ever undertaken. Without any need for money to change hands, without borders in the way - the speed of this development is staggering. Time is running out - parts of the planet are dying off - riots have turned many urban areas around the world into absolute chaos as people without drinking water and food become animalistic in their quest for survival on a dying planet. The 50,000 who are to fly are kept in a heavily fortified town for the duration of the construction and commensurate training that must be completed to ensure the safe operation of this immense spaceship. Crew selection is ongoing via personality profiling and practical skills demonstration - physical training is ongoing for all other lottery winners - and slowly the weak are being weeded out and replaced with other strong humans.

4. Interstellar - It's a bittersweet day when APHELION departs Earth orbit, leaving behind billions of people who will not survive the coming year. There will be no coming back. Bittersweet for the 50,000 on board this craft will never see the surface of another planet. They won't even get far enough to encounter possible other planets. Potential solar systems are generations away at best - and it could be hundreds of years before anything remotely potential shows up. It could be thousands.

APHELION is all we've got. This is her story.

Rob Cosh - modular, synthesizer, production, mixing
Scott Pinkerton - piano, synthesizer, arrangement

1. Root Cause
2. The Lottery
3. Build
4. Interstellar

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 02/05/2016
Rob Cosh lives in Ottawa Canada

Tagged as: Ambient, Instrumental Ambient, New Age, Instrumental New Age, Contemporary Piano, Ethereal, Space Music, Synth

1. Intimland Part 3 - Penetration by Angelight: New Age/World Music for mankind from Russia
2. Masquerade by Poeticall Musicke: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
3. Silent Knowledge - The World Stop by Angelight: New Age/World Music for mankind from Russia
4. Lines by Paolo Pavan: Urban funky jazz piano, in a sober and straightforward style
5. Tantrabeats 2 - The Space of the Soul by Angelight: New Age/World Music for mankind from Russia
6. Explorations by Pranavibes: creating a colorful atmosphere thats mixes tribal world music, African rhythms, folk and many rythmes
7. Fall Submissions by AntiGuru: IDM in the style of early Warp
8. English Renaissance Music by La Primavera: English Renaissance music.
9. Green by Arphaus: aficionado of deep house, IDM and ABBA
10. Insomnia by Processor: industrial acid house.
11. Harper's Brew by Aryeh Frankfurter: Timeless and enchanting folk music for the soul
12. The Mathemagician's Riddle by Psycliq: an electric heart with an organic soul
13. Cruel Waters by Ash Ganley: masterfully nuanced AAA rock
14. China radio sunshine by Psychetropic: intelligent electronic listening music
15. Soyes Loyal by Asteria: late-medieval vocal and instrumental music
16. In thy Dormition thou didst not forsake the World, (O Theotokos) by Putinki Church Choir: clear calm voices of spiritual music
17. Universe Acceptable by Ash Ganley: masterfully nuanced AAA rock
18. Finding Sanctuary by Anthony Salvo: solo and layered violin music on the theme of relational and spiritual intimacy
19. New Moon by Beth Quist: electro-Balkan / Indian meets New Age.
20. Electro Retro by Ambient Teknology: upbeat underground with shades of new wave

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