Rainbow Body debut album brings jam rock and conservation

A new six-piece drawn from the leading edge of the jam-rock world is weeks away from its first record. Rainbow Body gathers members of Dawes, Goose, Lettuce, Soulive, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and the Phil Lesh orbit for a self-titled Rainbow Body debut album that lands later this month. The band's lead single, "Strange Memory," is already streaming with an official video, and the group will play its first concert at the Coast Film and Music Festival in Laguna Beach, California, on the album's release day, according to Relix. The Rainbow Body debut album arrives digitally through Floki Studios, with distribution from No Coincedence Records and Secretly Distribution.

The six players need little introduction in jam circles. Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith arrive from Dawes, the rock band Taylor Goldsmith fronts. Rick Mitarotonda brings his guitar work from Goose, the Connecticut jam outfit. Eric Krasno covers a second guitar chair after years with Lettuce and Soulive, while Ross James of Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band handles bass. Adam MacDougall, previously of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Circles Around the Sun, plays keyboards. The sessions also feature guest appearances from Oteil Burbridge of Dead and Company and the Allman Brothers Band, plus singer Nicki Bluhm, as reported by JamBase. The personnel alone has jam fans circling the Rainbow Body debut album's arrival.

The lineup reads like a festival bill

The record took shape inside a conservation-minded experiment. The six musicians wrote together in California's Topanga Canyon, then flew to northern Iceland to record at Floki Studios in the Fljot Valley. The sessions belonged to the inaugural Quoia session, a project that moves artists into remote wild places and lets the surroundings shape the music. Quoia presents itself as an alliance of industry stewards committed to protecting nature, organized with partners including Eleven, Atlantic Packaging, A New Earth Project and Cox Enterprises. The Iceland work yielded an eight-song Rainbow Body debut album that mixes psychedelic rock, Americana, soul and folk, according to Grateful Web.

The lead single from the Rainbow Body debut album gives a clear sense of the band's range. Goldsmith describes "Strange Memory" as a song set on a highway the narrator drives without stopping, unable to remember what they are running from or what they set out to find. Taylor Goldsmith and Rick Mitarotonda split lead vocals, Griffin Goldsmith drives the drums, Krasno and Mitarotonda trade guitar solos over three-part harmonies, James holds down the low end and MacDougall adds atmospheric synth. Bluhm contributes backing vocals. The official video pairs studio footage with scenes of the band snowshoeing across Iceland's snow-covered terrain, as reported by Live for Live Music.

"Strange Memory" sets the tone

The Rainbow Body debut album carries a conservation mission beyond the music. Proceeds from the release benefit the North Atlantic Salmon Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to Atlantic salmon and marine biodiversity. The Quoia framework treats the recording itself as an act of environmental stewardship, placing the players in the landscapes the music is meant to honor. For listeners, the appeal starts with the personnel: this is a genuine band built from working musicians with years of stage experience behind them, and the single plays like the work of players who know each other's instincts. Few debut projects arrive this fully formed.

The group will christen the project with a live debut on release day. Rainbow Body plays its first show at Laguna Beach's Coast Film and Music Festival on the afternoon the record drops, giving West Coast fans the first look at the lineup together on stage. Digital pre-saves and vinyl preorders are already open, with a limited pressing scheduled for early 2027. In a season crowded with reunion tours and anniversary reissues, a new band with a finished record and a conservation plan attached stands out on the October release calendar. The Rainbow Body debut album is out October 23. The Coast Film and Music Festival pairing suits the band's cinematic origin: the album and the video both came out of Iceland's north.