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The fourth release (an EP and now three full albums) from the trio The Leif is out digitally on 90.032 Records.


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/ 


20 October 2021: New video from a concert with Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg with Harri Sjöström online


13 October: Red Lamplight On The Red Brick Wall reviewed by Salt Peanuts


10 October 2021: Peeter Uuskyla Tellef Øgrim Anders Berg and Harri Sjöström at Kafé Hærverk


30 September 2021: Live recording with Ayumi Tanaka and Per Oddvar Johansen released by Jazztrau


17-18 September : Outdoor audiovisual installation by Mugetuft Out Into This Light shown at Factory Light Festival, Dikemark Asker


10-12 September: Outdoor audiovisual installation by Mugetuft Som Hvitt Vann shown at Fossekleiva Art Center 


15 June: The first tune out from The Leif's upcoming release is online


10 June: One of the first events after Kafé Hærverk opens after Corona close-down is the debut of an improvising trio consisting of Tellef Øgrim, Ayumi Tanaka and Per Oddvar Johansen


22 February: Noise/atmospheric duo with Anders Berg puts out three Bandcamp albums over the first two months of 2021 HERE


9 January: Dark ambient duo album Framheim with Anders Berg is out HERE


29 December: The album Three Sixteen L, with  five "post-orchestrated" solo improvisations is out HERE


25 September: The Leif (Magnus Tenge/Tellef Øgrim) released an EP called But you Move On, containing five unique originals, featuring the amazing Per  Oddvar Johansen on drums. (Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple, YT, +++) Visit the live stream from the release party at Oslo's Kafé Hærverk 19 October HERE


Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg just did THIS

New duo album titled Mining the Duo with the fabulous Dutch drummer Onno Govaert


Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg play BrÖtz, Gothenburg with Harri Sjöström, March 18 (Cancelled due to the Coronavirus)


November 2019

Concert video of Henrik Helstenius / Tellef Øgrim at Lillelyd, Klosterenga Cafe, Oslo November 17 2019



October 2019

New solo track for improvised fretless baritone guitar at Soundcloud.


Henrik Hellstenius and Tellef Øgrim play a duo set at Lillelyd, Oslo, November 17


September 25. the label Hærverk Industrier released our live album (Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg + Harri Sjöström)


An installation by Mugetuft duo (Knudsen/Øgrim), commissioned by Factory Light festival in Slemmestad, was shown September 13. and 14.


MOCKBA, a recording of a duo set with drummer Peeter Uuskyla from the DOM 20 Festival in Moscow May 2019, is out at simlas.bandcamp.com



May 2019

Improvised duo set with Dutch drummer Onno Govaert at Q-factory in Amsterdam May 11. at 15:45


Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg plays at the opening day of DOM Cultural Centre festival in Moscow May. 19.


Oslo's Kafé Hærverk launch vinyl label. A live recording of Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg with Harri Sjöström will be the label's third release.


Working on audio-visual art installation inspired by recycling at Fossekleiva kultursenter with Peter Knudsen, opening June 15.


March 2019

Sound-tracking, producing and composing for school show at Stovner vgs.


(21 May 2018)

Simlas releases Oslo Hærverk, recorded at Kafé Hærverk in Oslo by Uuskyka Øgrim & Berg

 

(11 May 2018)

Simlas releases The Leif by the guitar duo The Leif (Magnus Tenge/Tellef Øgrim

 

 

(6 December 2017)

Simlas releases Circle by Gunnar Backman and Silencia by Gunnar Backman / Anders Berg

 

(24 November 2017)

Simlas releases LAIV by Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg

 

(1 November 2017)

Simlas releases Dope Regards by The Sonic E

 

(1 September 2017)

Simlas produksjoner releases Tellef's new, acoustic solo-album named What Is It

 

(12 August  2017)

Freejazzblog reviews Ullr

 

(27 March 2017)

salt peanuts  reviews Ullr

 

(8 February 2017)

AllAboutJazz reviews Ullr

 

(31 January 2017)

Unfretted.com reviews Ullr.

 

(17 January 2017)

Ullr is available for streaming. At Amazon and Bandcamp, also as CD.

 

(13 January 2017)

Simlas produksjoner releases the album Ullr with Peeter Uuskyla / Anders Berg / Tellef Øgrim Trio.

AllAboutJazz features a tune from the record.

 

 (14 November 2016)

Simlas produksjoner releases the album PassiveAggressive by the Swedish band RatedX (Patrik Ehrnborg guitars Mike Lloyd trumpet & electronics Johan Björklund drums & electronics)

 

Tellef 's second solo album, following up Some Dodos Never Die (2004), is named Fat Fit, and is out on Simlas Produksjoner here. (9 September 2016)

 

The Leif plays at ÖN-festivalen, Morgondagens Ekologiska Öl-kafe, Bicks Smart Environment, St. Hallvards Bistro, Hendriken (2016)

 

Avant Music News writes about KÖLEN:

"....it’s possible to hear in these largely hard-edged pieces an aural image of craggy stone thrust up into thin, twilit air"

 

Unfretted.com reviews KÖLEN

 

Kölen is out

 

The Leif plays at the veranda

 

Tellef discusses music business with himself

 

Ung Pike Forsvunnet goes to Nesbyen