EDISON’S CHILDREN ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
A LIGHT IN ETHEREAL NIGHT
Edison’s Children, the collaboration between Hollywood SFX technician Eric Blackwood, Rick Armstrong (son of the first man, Neil Armstrong) and Pete Trewavas (bassist from prog legends Marillion & Transatlantic) return with their fifth album, A Light In Ethereal Night, to be released on 4 September 2026.
The album is the second instalment in a trilogy which began in 2011 with In The Last Waking Moments. That record told the story of a man distraught after experiencing something he could neither explain nor prove, left suspended between two incendiary possibilities: was his “alien abduction” real, or was he descending into madness? The 15-minute Epic “The Awakening” ended without resolution.
A Light In Ethereal Night picks up the story exactly where it left off. Our protagonist returns to his farm to find an apparent extra-terrestrial crop circle of extraordinary geometric complexity. However, with every breeze... this crop circle disforms only to reappear… It’s symbols shifting every fifteen minutes with new, even more extraordinarily detailed patterns embedded in the wheat. Within hours. military convoys, news helicopters, and scientists have descended on the smallholding. What was once one man’s personal torment has become a very public reckoning; First Contact is being played out across the world’s media, from the most-watched parcel of land on earth since Roswell. And… the symbols … keep changing. Do “they” come in peace? Have they come to guide humanity forward, or is something far more sinister awaiting? The Truth is Out There… Disclosure of the 5th kind is hidden in the wheat.
Rick Armstrong says, “We want the listener to feel what it would actually be like, not wonder from a distance. We want them to experience the mix of awe and dread… the electric atmosphere you’d feel rising up out of the ether!”
Pete Trewavas follows up, “The moment the world descends on that farm, the story stops being about one man and becomes about all of us.The intimacy of the story explodes into something enormous. As a musician, that kind of intense dynamic shift is everything.”
Eric Blackwood says, “We wrote the first album when this subject still made people uncomfortable. Much has changed. Governmental documents are being declassified in a monumental movement dubbed “Disclosure”; astrophysicists are now concentrating on anomalous areas of “high strangeness”; and a significant number of people are demanding that our governments become more forthcoming and transparent. This album feels more relevant today than ever. The world has caught up with the story we were already telling.”
The album is now available for pre-order (scroll below). All pre-orders will come with an autographed card.
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Edison's Children
Edison's Children is a science fiction-oriented progressive rock trio known for writing "epic concept albums" with supernatural, apocalyptic and extra-terrestrialthemes. It features Rick Armstrong (the son of astronaut Neil Armstrong), Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Transatlantic) and Eric Blackwood (on-set special FX artist for over 150 Major Motion Pictures & Television Shows who performed as a musician for Sunblister & Blackwood and Foti). Their CDs include visual accompaniments in the form of 20 page "lyrics and images" insert booklets by photographer Wendy Darling Blackwood.
Edison's Children's music is a blend of neo-prog and industrial rock, drawing progressive influences from Pink Floyd, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Genesis, and Rush and combining them with the sub-bass style of music by bands like Tool, Deftones, The Cure, Chevelle, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, due to Blackwood's work as a 5-string (Low-B) bassist with NYC's hard industrial alt-rockers Sunblister (1998-2005). With Trewavas' experiences with Marillion and Transatlantic, Rick Armstrong's influences serving on panels about space and the universe, and Blackwood's history in Hollywood and appreciation for the modern darker scoring of Max Richter, Clint Mansell and Carter Burwell, Edison's Children combined influences to create "epic concept albums" based on extraterrestrial, supernatural, and apocalyptical themes, many of which Blackwood claims to have "personally experienced" in his life.
The trio of Trewavas, Blackwood and Armstrong share lead, rhythm and synth guitar duty, symphonic programming and bass. Eric Blackwood is the main lead vocalist with Pete Trewavas also taking on about 20% of the lead singing duties. Drums are shared by Henry Rogers (who played in Touchstone, Mostly Autumn and DeeExpus) and Lisa Wetton, the wife of late Asia and King Crimson singer John Wetton. Iluvatar's Chris Mack and Marillion's Ian Mosley have appeared in guest spots. Any electronic or programmed drum tracks are written and performed by Pete Trewavas.
