beacons
Disc 1 (Americana)
1. Race To Run
2. Milestoned
3. Mother
4. What Kind Of World
5. World On A String
6. Heaven Is Here
7. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
8. Another Way
Disc 2 (Bluegrass)
1. Regrets In The Rearview
2. Better Angels
3. Man Of Manzanita
4. The Overgrown Reel
5. This Is Me
6. Little Longer
7. Wild River
8. No Farm, No Howl
9. Keep On Growing
10. Song For The Life
Doni Zasloff: Vocals
Eric Lindberg: Vocals, Guitars, Banjo
The Nefesh Mountain Band:
Ben Plotnick: Fiddle, Bobby Hawk: Fiddle, Thomas Cassell: Mandolin, Danny Fox: Piano, Organ, Wurlitzer
Erik Alvar: Bass, Andrew Ryan: Bass, David Berger: Drums & Percussion
Our Nashville Friends
Stuart Duncan: Fiddle, Jerry Douglas: Dobro, Sam Bush: Mandolin,
Rob McCoury: Banjo, Cody Kilby: Guitar, Mark Schatz: Bass
Mixed by Brandon Bell, Mastered by Pete Lyman
ABOUT BEACONS
The latest album from Nefesh Mountain, Beacons emerged from a bold and wholehearted attempt to transform the world around them. Soon after wrapping up a whirlwind tour booked with the mission of spreading their newfound message of radical love, co-founders Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg immersed themselves in the feverish writing of songs that turned their frustrations and fears into irrepressible hope, all while reaching far beyond their bluegrass roots and forging a fiercely joyful sound unbound by genre convention. By the time they’d completed that process of musical alchemy, the New York-based husband-and-wife duo had profoundly refined the band’s vision and voice and arrived at the unfettered radiance of Beacons: an epic double album affirming Nefesh Mountain as a singular musical force—one whose deeply impassioned songwriting awakens us to new ways of navigating an endlessly troubled world.
Self-produced and mainly recorded at Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville, Beacons expands on the soulful intentionality Nefesh Mountain have brought to their music since forming a decade ago. “We live in such strange and divided times, and while we wanted this album to be a full-on celebration of American music, one of our main goals was to bring love, hope, and positivity into a world that sorely needs it,” says Lindberg. “In the end we made a choice: instead of getting mad, we just made music.” Although much of the album stemmed from their rumination on the political landscape (political polarization and division throughout the U.S., the Israel–Hamas War, and Russo-Ukrainian Wars), its spirit of purposeful optimism is made all the more potent by Nefesh Mountain’s willingness to speak about their most intimate struggles and triumphs, including the birth of their now-three-year-old “miracle baby” Willow and Zasloff’s journey with sobriety. “This is definitely the most personal album we’ve ever made, which was a big leap for us,” says Zasloff. “At some point it became obvious that if we’re going to really open our hearts, we need to talk about things we’ve never shared before, with the hope that it’ll end up helping others.” The result: a selection of lived-in and truly revelatory songs, each providing a beacon-like transmission of uplift and light.