Music
An archive of a former career, 2012–2017.
This page preserves my earlier work as a musician, recording and touring as Tellef Raabe. Between 2012 and 2017 I released two albums and several singles and EPs, gathered more than two million streams, and toured Norway and Europe, including festivals such as Øya and Slottsfjell. I am no longer active as a musician. The material below is kept for the record.
After an acoustic solo debut, stranger than the rest (2012), I formed a band that toured widely. The critically received debut album idiographic (2016) was produced by Njål Paulsberg with Erlend Mokkelbost and Matias Tellez. Growing up, I played in several punk bands, including Norwegian Corps Music, Redrum, Happy Motherfuckers, and Girls Vomit Candy.
Discography
- songs from a room — album, unreleased, 2010
- stranger than the rest — single, Raabe Records, 2012
- kindred — EP, Raabe Records, 2013
- stranger than the rest — single, Brilliance Diamond Club, 2013
- of Smith’s friends — EP, Raabe Records, 2014
- redd for å leve — single, Tellef Raabe + Dunkelvolt, Raabe Records, 2014
- å sove med øynene åpne — LP, Tellef Raabe + Dunkelvolt, Raabe Records, 2014
- dear Aphrodite / bedroom lights — single, Riot Factory, 2015
- dear Aphrodite (Hasta reworks) — single, Riot Factory, 2015
- Faye Dunaway — single, Riot Factory, 2015
- 1+1+1 — single, Riot Factory, 2015
- mould — single, Riot Factory, 2015
- colours — single, Riot Factory, 2015
- gymnopaedia — EP, Riot Factory, 2015
- flying on the ground — single, Riot Factory, 2016
- idiographic — album, Riot Factory, 2016
- next to you — single, Shapes Recordings, 2017
- idiographic — extended album, Shapes Recordings, 2017
- idiographiX — remix album, Shapes Recordings, 2018
- I thought you knew — single, Shapes Recordings, 2019
Live
Roughly seventy shows between 2012 and 2017, solo, duo, and full band, across Norway, Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, and Turkey. Highlights included Øya and Slottsfjell (2014), by:Larm (2015), Stavernfestivalen and The Lexington in London (2016), and a final concert at Salon IKSV in Istanbul in December 2016. A last commissioned solo work was performed in Ålesund in February 2017.
Credits
Live band: Martin Vinje (synth, vocals), Lars Finborud (guitar, bass, vocals), Cato Lyngholm (drums), Sigrid Raabe (vocals), Michael Bjørnaali (sound). Former members: Adrian Søgnen (drums), Birgitta Alida Hole (vocals, bass), Eirik Nordstrand (bass), Karoline Wallace (vocals, synth).
Studio: Njål Paulsberg, Erlend Mokkelbost, Matias Tellez, Jørgen Træen.
Original site archive
Before this domain moved here, tellefraabe.com was a music-career site (maintained c. 2013–2019). It is preserved on the Internet Archive, with snapshots of every page as they looked.