In an interview conducted Mar 2023 with Aymeric Leroy (author of "Yes"),
Sherwood said he was working on a new CIRCA: album, describing it as
"nearly complete". He said the line-up was himself (bass), Kaye
(keys), Jay Schellen
(drums) and Jimmy
Haun (guitar). (Sherwood, Schellen and Haun were also in Arc of Life: see
main page.) In an Apr
2024 interview, Sherwood said, "We've slowly, actually, been
formulating another record. It's probably my fault that it's slowed
down, because I've just been so busy doing other things. But that
said, we're very close to another record being done, which is called
Zentopia. [...] it's just a matter of me getting together
with TK to finish up the last sort of overdubs and we're there". In a May 2025 interview with YesShift, Sherwood
described the album as 90% done. Sherwood
said to Doug Curran in mid-May 2025 that he's been
working on the album with Kaye.
As far back as Sep 2021, CIRCA: were reported to
be working on a new album. In a Jul 2020
interview, Sherwood said he and Kaye talked about two weeks
before about doing the next CIRCA: album. Frontiers have renewed
their option for a new album. Sherwood said they hadn't written "a
note" yet and that Kaye wanted to keep the line-up from the previous
album. In a Feb
2021 interview with SOAL Night Live, Sherwood said, "There's
going to be a CIRCA: record down range [...] we're talking about how
to do it". He affirmed they are contracted to do another album, but
noted he was then busy with Arc of Life.
In a 15 Apr 2019 Facebook post, Sherwood said, "Spoke to TK[aye] on
the road during the last YES tour and we are both into making more
CIRCA: music. Chipping away at various musical ideas already".
Asked about future plans for the band in this Aug
2017 interview, Sherwood replied:
Circa is really like a studio-record project at
this point, mostly because getting out and touring is very
difficult to do [...] My life has become completely complex
and busy doing both Asia and Yes now. [...] but Tony and I
love working together on that Circa project. We’ve had many
albums now out at this point, and we always talk about making
more. I think Circa will still exist in a sense of making
records, but I don’t know if we’ll ever be really touring or
not. I wish we were, because it’s fun to play that music live
[...] But as it happens now [...] I doubt we’ll be able to
pull it off in terms of getting the calendar together.