Rainbow Body will release their self-titled debut on Friday, October 23. The ensemble, which brings together Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band) and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Circles Around the Sun), recently recorded the set at Flóki Studios in Iceland. Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Company, The Allman Brothers Band) and Nicki Bluhm also made guest appearances on the album. A limited-edition vinyl will follow on January 8, 2027.
Proceeds from Rainbow Body, which is being issued by Flóki Studios with distribution by No Coincedence Records & Secretly Distribution, will benefit the North Atlantic Salmon Fund, a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to Atlantic salmon and marine biodiversity. The project was created in partnership with Quoia, a new alliance of industry stewards committed to protecting nature.
“‘Strange Memory’ takes place on a highway that doesn’t end,” Taylor Goldsmith said of the LP’s first single, which was released today. “When you can’t remember what you’re running from and you can’t remember what you set out to find.”
An official band statement explains, “Rainbow Body began as part of Quoia’s inaugural Quoia Session, which invites artists to come to the wildest places on Earth, listen to the wisdom of the land and those living closest to it, and channel new sounds shaped by those places. In January 2026, Taylor Goldsmith, Griffin Goldsmith, Rick Mitarotonda, Eric Krasno, Ross James, and Adam MacDougall gathered in Topanga Canyon to spend time together and write a record. The setting was intentional, with the surrounding landscape and environment shaping the creative process from the outset. A month later, the session continued at Flóki Studios, a world-class remote recording studio and independent record label located near the Arctic Circle on a converted sheep farm in the Fljót Valley on the Troll Peninsula in Northern Iceland. Moving from Topanga to the isolation of Northern Iceland gave the group two very different environments in which to develop the music, with each place leaving its mark on the songs and how they were written and recorded. Together, Rainbow Body recorded the album’s eight original tracks, moving freely between psychedelic rock, Americana, soul, folk and open-ended improvisation, ultimately creating an original sound that feels both timeless and adventurous.”
Krasno added, “Part of this project is that we hope to create awareness around certain things that people would not normally know are happening in the world. That it can be kind of a backdrop for coming together on these issues and people collaborating in different ways to help the world.”
Meanwhile, Rick Mitarotonda said, “As musicians, everyone’s focused on their pursuit and expression as artists, and that can become all-consuming. It’s so much work to just do that and make a living, to keep the thing moving. But to be able to be a part of this and serve something bigger, it’s an honor and something I would love to do a lot more of.” And Griffin Goldsmith explained, “If this never happened again, I would be forever grateful that it did. And if it happened another 15 times, I think I’d still be sitting here like, wow, I can’t believe this is happening. What an amazing opportunity we’ve been given.”
Rainbow Body will make their live debut at Laguna Beach, CA’s Coast Film and Music Festival on Friday, October 23.
Here’s a look at the self-titled album’s track
Strange Memory
I Don’t Know What to Do with My Hands
From Mirror Lake
Jalü
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