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CD/DVD Releases: Circles Around The Sun Release Video For "Gilbert's Groove"

Posted on Saturday, December 26 @ 19:38:15 UTC by admin

Set Break Sounds Created For Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Shows Available Now As Interludes For The Dead On Rhino

Circles Around The Sun, the band assembled by guitarist Neal Casal to create the set break music at The Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well concerts this summer, has released a video for "Gilbert's Groove." Directed by Mark Wiitanen and premiered last week by Yahoo Music, the clip captures the sprawling and majestic psychedelia which drives the music. [Oh, yes, it's trippy, man. Cool. - ed.]

Watch & Share Circles Around The Sun "Gilbert's Groove" Below:

"At the shows, their music was a smash sensation: deeply familiar to the reunited Deadheads in how it tonally, rhythmically and melodically mimicked the Dead's songs, yet possessing its own weirdo majesty." - NPR MUSIC

"The story behind Circles Around the Sun is a serendipitous but magical musical tale." - YAHOO MUSIC

"For something that was conceived originally as background music, Interludes For The Dead stands on its own both as a musical work, and as a testament to the lasting influence and continuing inspiration of what the Grateful Dead achieved." - INK 19

Those lucky enough to score a "miracle" ticket to the Fare Thee Well concerts this summer were treated to some potent psychedelic jams during the shows' intermissions. The mysterious group behind those freewheeling tunes was Circles Around the Sun, a band convened by guitarist Neal Casal specifically for the project.

The songs were composed and recorded during a two-day jam session. The results were so captivating, and the audience response so overwhelmingly positive, Rhino decided to give the music a proper release. Interludes For The Dead was released November 27 and is available on LP, CD & digital formats.

The project began when Casal was asked by video director Justin Kreutzmann to compose and record more than five hours of original music to be played along with the visuals Kreutzmann was preparing for the Fare Thee Well intermissions. "The idea was to not only show reverence for the past but to ultimately, move it forward. If there's anything to be learned from the Grateful Dead, it is to dissolve your boundaries, push your limits, and discover your own voice in this world," explains Casal, the lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and part-time member of Phil Lesh & Friends.

Casal was joined in the studio by keyboardist Adam MacDougall, a fellow member of Robinson's Brotherhood and Lesh's Friends. The balance of Circles Around The Sun consists of bassist Dan Horne (Beachwood Sparks, Jonathan Wilson) and drummer Mark Levy (The Congress). All of the music on Interludes For The Dead was written collectively -- with nothing prepared beforehand or added afterward -- and recorded live by engineer J.P. Hesser.

Before attending the first Fare Thee Well concert in Santa Clara, no one in the group knew quite what to expect. "We figured it would be low-volume background music that people would ignore in their eagerness to hear the headliners," Casal recalls. "Fine by us, we were just there to dance and dig the music anyway. It was the surprise of our lives to find out just how wrong we were."

[Source: Calabro Music Media]

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