Tellef Øgrim (born 27 January 1958) is a Norwegian
fretless
A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made.
The classic fretless guitar was first ...
guitarist, composer and journalist.
He played in oboist Jan Wiese's band Bitihorn from 1976 and joined Ole Hedemann's Ung Pike Forsunnet (UPF) in 1981.
UPF released two albums. In 1985 Øgrim and vocalist
Anne Danielsen (later his wife) formed the soul-rock band Duck Spin,
releasing the group's only album ''Wake me when the Moon gets up'' the year after.
In 1987 Øgrim released the jazz-rock album ''Libido'' (Hot Club Records) with Henrik Hellstenius (keyb), Tore Eide (bs/cl) and Inge Norum (dr/prc).
During the same period of time he wrote music for two theater plays staged by Piotr Cholodzinski.
In 2004 Øgrim released a CD containing improvisations for fretless electric guitar under the title Some Dodos Never Die and in 2007 the CD Wagon 8, was released on Curling Legs Records with Polish drummer
Jacek Kochan, trombonist Dag Einar Eilertsen,
Henrik Hellstenius Henrik Hellstenius (born 28 April 1963) is a Norwegian composer and musicologist.
Born in Bærum, Norway, Hellstenius studied musicology at the University of Oslo and composition with Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton Thommessen and Bjørn Kruse at th ...
(laptop) (one track) and singer Anne Danielsen (one track).
In 2008 Øgrim played on the free jazz CD ''Do I the In?'' (Not Two Records)
where he played with Joe Fonda (bs), Jacek Kochan (dr) and Franz Hautzinger (trp). In 2010 he formed the music-live-video project Mugetuft with Peter Knudsen and Henrik Hellstenius and an improvisational trio with cello player Clementine Gasser and Jacek Kochan. This trio's first album was released by Not Two Records.
Since 2014 Øgrim has cooperated with Swedish bassist Anders Berg on several duo albums. Berg and Øgrim have gone on to create the record label Simlas that also has released Øgrim's latest solo album called Fat Fit - Solos for Guitars. In January 2017 Øgrim went on to form a free jazz trio with Peeter Uuskyla and Anders Berg by releasing the album Ullr.
Øgrim has been a journalist since the late 1980s writing for the
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), ''
Dagens Naeringsliv'',
''Ballade''
and
Oslo Business Memo',
and ''Oslo Innovation Magazine''
an
Blue Frontier Magazine He also is a speaker on topics relating to art and technology.
References
External links
Official website
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Norwegian guitarists
Norwegian male guitarists
Norwegian composers
Norwegian male composers
1958 births
Living people
Musicians from Oslo