Gruen, Kris - Coast & Refuge [CD]

Open heartedness was featured prominently on Kris Gruen's 2018 release 'Coast and Refuge". This is true in both the themes and the making of the album- whether in writing about what it takes to keep a relationship or a friendship going- or in the process of making art in a series of collaborations with new and old friends. It's an album both about and created by partnerships where the sonic and thematic threads feel constant, equally at home in the old townships of Vermont where the new folk-artist lives, as it is in the new frontiers of Scandinavia, and the California coastline where much of it was written.