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    Earlier this fall he took part in the first ever NYC Fretless Guitar Festival. Now a recording of Norwegian Fretless Guitarist Tellef Øgrim’s complete appearance is available to download for free on line.

    Log on to http://www.tellefogrim.no and click on the “downloads” link and put Tellef Øgrim’s first live recording on your computer or your mp3player. Øgrim’s music is jazzy, poetic and free with roots in post 1970 European Jazz as well as folk music. Øgrim sites his main influences to be Keith Jarret, Miles Davis and the drummer Jon Christensen. He plays a defretted Yamaha SG electric guitar. On the recording, done at the Knitting Factory during the NYC Fretless Guitar Festival the guitar was plugged directly into a Fender amplifier without the use of additional effects except for the reverb added from the mixer.

    The fretless festival was organized as a three day release party for the double CD Village of the Unfretted, featuring fretless guitarists from 17 different countries. It is available via http://www.cdbaby.com

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