Where are they now? - CIRCA: and related projects

Where are they now? - CIRCA: & related projects

This page last updated: 2 Apr 2023

YES and projects with several Yesmen Jon
Anderson Steve
Howe
Geoff
Downes Chris Squire
Alan White

Billy
Sherwood
Jon
Davison
Rick
Wakeman
Patrick
Moraz
Trevor
Rabin

Trevor
Horn
Tony
Kaye
Oliver Wakeman
Jay Schellen
Igor
Khoroshev
Bill
Bruford

Peter Banks
Benoît David
Asia Arc of Life
CIRCA:
Yes ft. Anderson Rabin Wakeman Others associated with the band

Billy Sherwood is the nexus for a number of projects involving other Yesmen, both current and former band members. Sherwood and Tony Kaye are the core of CIRCA:.

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 are also in Arc of Life: see main page.) In 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.

CIRCA: are managed by Derek Shulman (ex-Gentle Giant; managed Yes; signed World Trade, Dream Theater) and Leonardo Pavkovic (MoonJune Records/Management, managed Soft Machine Legacy, Allan Holdsworth; worked with Bill Bruford, Bozzio/Holdsworth/Levin/Mastelotto Band, Eddie Jobson) at 2 Plus Music & Entertainment, Inc.

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YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Steve Howe	Geoff Downes	Chris Squire Alan White
Billy Sherwood	Jon Davison	Rick Wakeman	Patrick Moraz	Trevor Rabin
Trevor Horn	Tony Kaye	Oliver Wakeman Jay Schellen	Igor Khoroshev	Bill Bruford
Peter Banks Benoît David	Asia	Arc of Life CIRCA:	Yes ft. Anderson Rabin Wakeman	Others associated with the band

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