Bete Grise (Bay-Deh Gree)

Bete Grise is the sound of a restless soul looking for home in strange American landscapes. Named after a haunted beach in Upper Michigan, where songwriter and bandleader Solomon Kronberg grew up, the project was born out of a season of travel, heartbreak, and change. After leaving the North Woods behind, he crisscrossed the country, collecting stories, ghosts, and melodies—finally landing on the rain-soaked Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

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There, amid a new life of farming and solitude, the songs of Bete Grise began to take shape: lyrically rich and dreamlike, full of shifting skies, empty highways, lost friends, and flickering moments of beauty. The music blends pedal steel, fiddle, electric guitar, and rhythm section with a deep atmospheric wash—effects like delay, distortion, and reverb stretch these Americana roots into a kind of psychedelic alt-country or cosmic folk-rock. Extended instrumental passages and jam-like interludes give the songs space to breathe and wander, mirroring the journeys that inspired them. 

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This is music for fans of Neil Young, Hiss Golden Messenger, and the War on Drugs. Bete Grise blends introspective, lyrically forward songwriting with a rich sonic palette and analog textures. The music echoes the dreamy expansiveness of Kevin Morby, the poetic intimacy of Adrianne Lenker, and the haunting warmth of Daniel Romano. It’s music for driving into the dusk — haunted, searching, and wide open.

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Themes of travel, relationships, heartbreak, friendship, and the ache of change move throughout the project’s debut EP, recorded after forming a live band through connections in the Olympic Peninsula’s tight-knit music scene. Bete Grise makes music for wandering—geographically, emotionally, or spiritually—haunted by what you’ve left behind, and still searching for what comes next.