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 September 4th, 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.”
Edison’s Children have woven voices of prominent UFO, UAP & OVNI investigators directly into the album’s soundtrack, not as a novelty but as testimony. Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Childress, Jason Martell, and William Henry from the ground-breaking and much-loved History Channel show Ancient Aliens contribute to the album. It gives the narrative genuine weight and places A Light In Ethereal Night in a category of its own.
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 wheat is still moving. The patterns are still shifting.
A Light In Ethereal Night releases on September 4th on Random Disturbance Records and will be available on CD, 180g vinyl (remastered for enhanced bass by Rush/Porcupine Tree’s Andy Van Dette) & streaming services.
Track List
Side 1 – The 31
From Out Of The Ether
The Day After
Pathogen
Side 2 Interlaced
Threnody Parts I-II of X
Pre-Orders can be placed at:
https://edisonschildren.com/
https://edisonschildren.bandcamp.com/
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/edisons-children
http://www.thebandwagon.eu/
Edison’s Children are:
Eric Blackwood – Lead vocals, lead synth guitar
Rick Armstrong – Rhythm guitar, keyboards
Pete Trewavas – Lead bass guitar, Backing vocals
Guest Appearances:
Henry Rogers – Drums
Dan Hogarth-Guest – Drums (The Day After)
Robin Boult – Guitar (The Day After)
Produced by Edison’s Children
Mixed by Steve Hardy / Mastered by Andy Van Dette (Engine Room)
Music and lyrics by Pete Trewavas, Eric Blackwood, Rick Armstrong
Artwork by Wendy Darling Blackwood
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