page_title: Edison's Children
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context_page_description: Edison’s Children are an "Epic" science fiction-oriented progressive rock trio, featuring Rick Armstrong, Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood.
  Edison's Children is known for writing "Epic" concept albums with songs that can reach over an hour in length which are divided up into many smaller "movements" or sections. They are considered by many to be in the "neo-prog" genre that combines elements of Pink Floyd, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Genesis and Rush but are known for having their own unique and distinctive "sound".
  Edison's Children have released four albums to date as well as two EPs and one "Making of" release ... the latest being the 68 minute long "The Disturbance Fields" released on July 20th, 2019 on the anniversary of Apollo 11 and Rick's dad Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. A Double-LP 180g Vinyl release of The Disturbance Fields was officially released on October 23rd, 2019, re-mastered by Andy VanDette who was chief mastering engineer of Masterdisc and is known for remastering Rush's back catalog along with Porcupine Tree, Metallica, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Muse, Alicia Keys and many others.
context_section_description: Edison’s Children are an "Epic" science fiction-oriented progressive rock trio, featuring Rick Armstrong (Son of Astronaut Neil Armstrong), Pete Trewavas (Marillion and Transatlantic) and Eric Blackwood.
  Edison's Children is known for writing "Epic" concept albums with songs that can reach over an hour in length which are divided up into many smaller "movements" or sections. They are considered by many to be in the "neo-prog" genre that combines elements of Pink Floyd, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Genesis and Rush but are known for having their own unique and distinctive "sound". 
  Edison's Children have released four albums to date as well as two EPs and one "Making of" release ... the latest being the 68 minute long "The Disturbance Fields" released on July 20th, 2019 on the anniversary of Apollo 11 and Rick's dad Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. A Double-LP 180g Vinyl release of The Disturbance Fields was officially released on October 23rd, 2019, re-mastered by Andy VanDette who was chief mastering engineer of Masterdisc and is known for remastering Rush's back catalog along with Porcupine Tree, Metallica (One), Aerosmith (Living on The Edge), Nirvana, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Muse, Alicia Keys and many others. 
  Edison's Children are an official "side-project" of the Rock band Marillion who began in 1979 and have sold over 15 million albums worldwide. Edison's Children's 1st album "In The Last Waking Moments..." is the only album to feature all of the members of Marillion (h, Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley, Steve Rothery and of course Edison' Children founder Pete Trewavas) and not be an actual "Marillion album". (The lead guitarist of their former lead singer Fish appears on that album as well).
  Rick Armstrong, Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood all play lead and rhythm guitars and synth guitars and bass while Trewavas and Blackwood handle the lead vocals. Drumming is led by  Henry Rogers of Touchstone / Mostly Autumn / DeeExpus fame and includes Lisa Wetton (wife of the late Asia/King Crimson singer John Wetton) and Iluvatar's Chris Mack. 
  Recording engineers include Mike Hunter (producer of Marillion), Jakko Jakszyk (lead singer of King Crimson),  John Mitchell (singer of Arena,  Kino, Frost*, It Bites and Lonely Robot), Robin Boult (guitarist with Fish (singer) and Pete Trewavas.
  Every song the band has ever written has an accompanying piece of artwork (which appears throughout the 20 page "Lyrics and Images" booklets of their CDs and LPs of all of their major releases). These pieces of artwork as well as their Album Covers and interior photographs have all been photographed by Wendy "Darling" who also does backing vocals for Edison's Children.
  Between 2007 and 2013 Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood with help from Rick Armstrong, wrote approximately 7 albums. The less intensive musical endeavors were released first with In The Last Waking Moments… coming out in 2011. Their single from that album: "A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had A Time Machine)" was released as a single in June 2012 and reached the FMQB Top 40 for 10 weeks, peaking on 18 October 2012 at #32 for most played song on United States Commercial Radio.
  The second release was a concept album that was written in 2012 called The Final Breath Before November. The "edge of midnight on Halloween" theme provided a dark canvas and a step away from the more "commercial" sounding In the Last Waking Moments..., The album featured a prominent role by drummer   Henry Rogers of Touchstone and DeeExpus. Nineteen-year-old   Henry Rogers had won the award for "World's Best Drummer" by England's "Classic Rock Society" for 2 years in a row, beating out Dream Theater/Transatlantic's Mike Portnoy who had long held the honor.
  Their most recent release, their epic fourth album was The Disturbance Fields, an ecological album about our overuse of the earth's resources leading to a battle with Mother Nature to take back the earth from Human Nature. "The Disturbance fields are the physical manifestations that  mother nature's wrath can take against the human race due to our mistreatm
caption: Edison’s Children 2011, Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood.
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