Circles Around The Sun

Circles Around the Sun is an instrumental band initially spearheaded by guitarist Neal Casal, that was formed to create incidental music for 2015's Fare Thee Well concerts by surviving members of the Grateful Dead. The character of that music reflected the Dead's spacy, grooving feel. After the concerts, the group issued excerpts from shows as Interludes for the Dead. The positive response motivated them to release a 2018 follow-up, Let It Wander, a flowing meld of jazz-funk, fusion, and R&B. After completing the Meets Joe Russo EP and a third album in 2019, Casal died by suic...