Nefesh Mountain to launch ‘Songs For The Sparrows’

Bluegrass/Americana band Nefesh Mountain announced now the release day of their significantly-predicted forthcoming album. Tracks For The Sparrows, on Eden Sky Information, will be accessible by way of all platforms on June 11. The file is the comply with-up to their former releases, Beneath the Open up Sky (2018) and Nefesh Mountain (2016). Recorded at Nashville’s historic Seem Emporium, Tracks For The Sparrows was manufactured by band founders, spouse and wife crew, Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff.

Considering that their arrival on the scene in 2015, Nefesh Mountain has been hailed as a single of today’s formative boundary-pushing bluegrass Americana bands. They are among the 1st to actually give voice and brazenly stand for Jewish American lifestyle, tradition, values and spirituality in the globe of American roots songs.  In a testomony to the unbridled creativity and extraordinary grace of their musicianship, every single observe on Songs for the Sparrows ineffably evokes the sensation of roaming via the not known. Real to the album’s spirit of loving inclusivity, Lindberg and Zasloff have developed an elegantly wayward sound by melding components of anything from Americana and Appalachian bluegrass to Celtic folks and Jap European audio. Not only a reflection of their large musical understanding, that open up-hearted embracing of so lots of eclectic genres also speaks to the joyful curiosity that animates every facet of their artistry.

L-R: Grubner, Lindberg, Zasloff, Johnson, Goldenberg (Photo credit: Lawrence Rickford)

Crafting 13 of the 14 tracks, the duo seemed back on a lifestyle-changing excursion to Japanese Europe in 2018. “We tracked down the towns in which our family members are from, and it was devastating to see the destruction of the Holocaust firsthand, and to know that we’re not so significantly eliminated from that time,” claims Lindberg. “Songs For The Sparrows in the end came from that practical experience, and from considering about the a lot of groups of men and women who are horribly discriminated from in the U.S.” Zasloff adds, “To us, sparrows characterize a modest but mighty voice. That is why we chose to identify the album for them—they’re frequently forgotten, but they are wonderful and almost everywhere.” Lindberg and Zasloff are the coronary heart of this eclectic band, together with longtime bandmate and fiddle player Alan Grubner, David Goldenberg on mandolin, and Max Johnson on bass.

In addition to the main band, the album also capabilities an all-star lineup of musicians such as Jerry Douglas (Dobro), Sam Bush (mandolin), and Bryan Sutton (guitar). “Jerry and Sam are element of this wonderful team of bluegrass musicians who seriously blew the doors off the total style again in the ’70s and ’80s, and paved the way for folks like us to deliver in all varieties of influences,” suggests Lindberg. “So, when this report is in quite a few strategies a celebration of American songs, it’s also our endeavor to introduce some otherworldly things that you may well not get from pure Americana.”

In that spirit, Lindberg and Zasloff brought aboard Celtic phenoms John Doyle (guitar/bouzouki) and Mike McGoldrick (whistles) to assistance obtain this worldwide audio. “Celtic audio is this kind of an integral component of our life as American roots musicians” claims Lindberg. “We wanted to share our enjoy of Scots-Irish music in a quantity of these tunes as a way to convey in a European affect, and for us was these types of an honor to file and collaborate with two of our favorites, John and Mike” 

On top of that, the album features stellar players Jeff Taylor (accordion, piano, dulceola), Wes Corbett (banjo), and John Mock (bodhran).

Nefesh Mountain amps up to the launch of Songs For the Sparrows with the majestic guide single and video titled “Wanderlust”—a gloriously cascading tale of two perpetual travelers location out on a new voyage, a little bit wary but unshakably determined. “We wrote this music as a reflection of our life as touring musicians out on the road, and the trials of currently being absent from household so normally,” describes Lindberg. ‘Wanderlust’ also attracts inspiration from the ancient phrases of ‘Traveler’s Prayer’ which were being stated by our ancestors—a prayer providing safety for the journey ahead.”

https://www.youtube.com/check out?v=30OBS3PfjEM

Both native New Yorkers with a lifelong affinity for bluegrass, Lindberg and Zasloff founded Nefesh Mountain in 2014 and introduced their self-titled debut in 2016. “Bluegrass and acoustic new music have generally spoken to us—something about the sound of acoustic instruments generates the great landscape for quite truthful storytelling,” suggests Lindberg. By way of the many years, they’ve created a devoted pursuing on the energy of that storytelling and their spirited reside exhibit

“This album is very significantly a celebration it is about journey and stamina and pushing through the hard times,” suggests Zasloff. “We’re seeking at some agonizing things in these tracks, but it normally arrives back to the notion of persevering and allowing really like be your gasoline.”