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Offpiste Gurus

Neither singer and song writer Trinelise Væring nor saxophone player and composer Fredrik Lundin are known to choose the beaten path, to tread where others have been before. No, they've always gone offpiste, chosing their own unpredictable ways. Trinelise and Fredrik have taken all the different kinds of music the love and listen to, and put it in a cauldron where it has been matured and destilled in to their own particular and destinctive brand of music. It's music from the rough country, music that explores what’s off the beaten track, music that blends everything that they've come across on their journeys. Music that feels at home everywhere, and welcomes anyone ready to lend an ear to a new fresh soulful Scandinavian sound.

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Album Review

Offpiste Gurus: In Case Of Fire

Read "In Case Of Fire" reviewed by Budd Kopman


And now, as they say, for something completely different. In Case Of Fire is “Scandinavian Indie-Pop Jazz" for want of any other label, by the group Offpiste Gurus (vocalist/poet/songwriter Trinelise Væring, reedman Fredrik Lundin, bassist Thomas Vang and drummer/percussionist Jeppe Gram). “Offpiste" literally means skiing purposefully on ungroomed trails, that is off the beaten path, and an extended meaning of broadly doing the unexpected. How this applies here is that the album, which consists of eleven tracks all ...

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Take Five with Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus

Read "Take Five with Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus:Offpiste Gurus was formed as collaboration between Trinelise and Fredrik in 2008. The band's first album will be released on Stunt Records in 2010.

Instrument(s):Vocal, saxophones, guitar, bass and drums.Teachers and/or influences?Our music sounds somehow like a mix of all the music we love, blues, roots, jazz, country, rock, trip hop. We've been influenced by musicians and bands like Tom ...

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Credentials/Background

Teacher at the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen.

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Band workshops at conservatories

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

In Case Of Fire

Enja Records
2016

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In Case of Fire

Enja/Yellowbird
2015

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Offpiste Gurus

Stunt Records
2010

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