NEWS
The Leif released April 14 2023. listen
December 12, 2022, the audiovisual collective Mugetuft (Peter Knudsen, Henrik Hellstenius, Per Oddvar Johansen and I) contributed to the celebration of Edvard Munch's birthday in the artist's own studio in Oslo. Watch an excerpt on Vimeo or YouTube.
November 2022: Temporal Angles is the fifth in a series of solo guitar albums that started with the release of There's No Such Thing As My Fretless Guitar in 2004. In an attempt to sum up my different expeditions into the world of music, the best I can do is this "explores the esoteric expressionism of jazz and beyond». Herman Østby, a reviewer at the Norwegian student magazine Under Dusken, made this attempt to capture my eclectic improvising style in words with this characterisation in 2022: «Sunday's in Love is Amour shooting guitar picks off 6-string lovemaking towards mind-boggling contemporary composers and jazz composers.» Access the album at https://tellefogrim.bandcamp.com/
October 2022: Reunion concert with the new wave/pop-rock band Ung Pike Forsvunnet
September 2022: Concerts in Gothenburg and Oslo featuring Harri Sjöström, Peeter Uuskyla, Anders Berg, Dario Fariello and Tellef
To order LP/CDs, check for availability via E-mail to tellefogrim@gmail.com
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Leif is an electric guitar-oriented band from Oslo. A self-titled debut album containing ten melody-driven tracks was released at Simlas produksjoner (CD, streaming, download and vinyl) 2018. Their second release (2020) is titled But you move on. Then There, The Leif's third release will be out by April 14, 2023. Follow the band's website.
Mugetuft is an audio/visual collective, exploring the relationship between live sound and live visuals. The project’s main idea is that the visual and audible means of expression shall be independent and at the same time inter-dependent of each other in order to achieve a tight and organic integration of sound and image. In Mugetuft audio should accompany the visuals as much as visuals accompany the audio. Check out this side of my work at mugetuft.no
Henrik Hellstenius and Tellef Øgrim have been playing together in different bands and projects since the 1980ties. Now they have gotten together to explore sounds and sentiments in their combined bags, instruments, circuits and the general condition of weather, the day's form and the current position of stars and planets in this improvised duo. Henrik: electronics, Tellef: guitars. Watch concert video HERE
Solo
Temporal Angles (Album 2022)
Sunday's in love (Album 2022)
kitch·en | \ ˈki-chən (Ep 2022)
Trois pièces pour guitare electrique seule (Ep 2022)
Three Sixteen L (Ep 2020)
Some Dodos Never Die (Album 2004)
Fat Fit - Solos for Guitars (Album 2016)
Listen to a Spotify playlist with Tellef's music (bands and solo work).
WØJT is a duo with long-time musician friend Jan Wiese, who plays oboe, English horn, midi wind controller, and live electronics. Our first release, Undreaming,
was released in November 2018. A second album will be out digitally in April 2020.
Tellef Øgrim / Anders Berg Duo make abstract improvised music bordering European art music withe basses, guitars, electronics and other sound sources. Berg (SE) and Øgrim (NO) have their combined backgrounds from jazz and rock and have met and played for the first time in a guitar festival in den Haag.
Collaborators:
Anders Berg, Magnus Tenge, Peter Knudsen, Henrik Hellstenius, Øivind Nordal, Anne Danielsen, Jan Wiese, Ole Hedemann, Per Oddvar Johansen, Peeter Uuskyla, Hans Rønningen, Dario Fariello, Onno Govaert, Jacek Kochan, Joe Fonda, Morten Halle, Svein Therkelsen, Rune Nicolaysen, Piotr Cholodzinski, Franz Hautzinger, Magne Otterdal, Ayumi Tanaka, Clementine Gasser, Piotr Cholodzinski, Svein Therkelsen, Nils Harkestad
Tellef at Discogs