Circles Around the Sun

Circles Around sunlight was formed for an extremely specific purpose: to make intermission music for Fare Thee Good, some reunion concerts played with the surviving associates from the Grateful Deceased during 2015. The displays famous the band’s 50th anniversary and offered as their formal sendoff. Video movie director Justin Kreutzmann (kid of GD drummer Costs) contacted guitarist/composer Neal Casal (Ryan Adams’ Cardinals, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Phil Lesh & Close friends) about creating five hours of music to accompany his biographical visuals to become shown through the Fare Three Well concert intermissions. Casal enlisted keyboardist Adam MacDougall (a new member from the Robinson Brotherhood and Lesh’s Close friends rings), bassist Dan Horne (Beachwood Sparks, Jonathan Wilson), and drummer Tag Levy (the Congress). Casal described that “…the theory was never to only show reverence for days gone by but to ultimately move it forward,” adding “If there’s anything to be discovered in the Grateful Dead, it really is to dissolve your boundaries, push your limits, and find out your own voice nowadays.” Compared to that end, this brand-new band inserted the studio with no prepared any materials. They composed at that moment and documented live for just two times with engineer J.P. Hesser. They held the process natural by not really adding anything during post-production. Some associated with the task assumed these periods would just end up being vocals that concertgoers would pay out little focus on, they were incorrect. The response by guests was therefore positive that Rhino Information decided to concern a proper discharge. A two-disc established culled from the initial five hours of music premiered separately as Interludes for the Deceased in past due November 2015. The entire recordings were offered within a triple-disc established included in the Dead’s mammoth 19-disk (audio and video) container arranged document of the entire run of displays entitled, properly, Fare Thee Well.