John Eriksson (musician)
Swedish musician (born 1974)
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John Eriksson (born 8 January 1974, Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden) is a Swedish musician and composer best known as a founding member of Peter Bjorn and John.[1][2]
John Eriksson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 January 1974 Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden |
| Occupations | Musician and composer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Known for | Founding member of Peter Bjorn and John |
Career
He was born in 1974 and raised in Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden.[3] In 1994, he founded the percussion quartet Peaux, for which he was also a musician and composer.[4] From 1995 to 1999, he was a musician in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,[5][6] performing in concerts and recordings with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Myung-Whun Chung, Herbert Blomstedt and Evgeny Svetlanov. He was also in a percussion/trumpet duo with Tora Thorslund,[7][8] and in 1998 he was a marimba soloist during the Stockholm International Percussion Event.[9] From 1999 to 2008, he was a musician, arranger and composer in the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble.[10][11]
From 1999, he was one of the founding members, musician, composer, arranger and producer of the band Peter Bjorn and John.[12] More recently, he has recorded as dance music act Hortlax Cobra,[13] who produced 3 vinyl EPs.[14] Another side project is "disco-kraut" act Holiday For Strings.[15][16][17] He was also composer for projects with Teenage Engineering.[18] In 2012 he was one of the founding members of the artist collective INGRID, and Hortlax Cobra contributed a song to their Record Store Day compilation called Ingrid Volume 1.[19]
Discography
As composer, arranger
- Peter Bjorn And John: Gimme Some
- Peter Bjorn And John: Living Thing (also producer)
- Peter Bjorn And John: Seaside Rock (also producer)
- Peter Bjorn And John: Writers Block
- Peter Bjorn And John: Falling Out
- Peter Bjorn And John: Peter Bjorn And John
- Peter Bjorn And John: Beats Traps and Backgrounds (EP)
- Hortlax Cobra: Night Shift (also producer)
- Hortlax Cobra: Everybody's Talking About Hortlax Cobra (also producer)
- Hortlax Cobra: Nobody Knows Hortlax Cobra (also producer)
- Hortlax Cobra: Stop and Smell the Hortlax Cobra (also producer)
- Holiday For Strings: CD
- Holiday For Strings: Two Of You (EP)
- Holiday For Strings: Favorite Flavor
- Peaux – Peaux [20]
- Kroumata – Encores [21]
- Depeche Mode – Fragile Tension (remix)
- First Floor Power – The Jacket (remix)
- Golden Filter – Hide Me (remix)
- The Temper Trap – Fools (remix)
- Peter Bjorn And John: Writers Block Remix (remix)
- Wildbirds and Peacedrums – My Heart (remix)
- Les Big Byrd – Zig Smile (remix)
- Neneh Cherry and The Thing: Accordion (remix)
As Musician: (excerpts)
- Lykke Li: Youth Novels
- Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes
- Teddybears: Musik ur teaterföreställningen Don Carlos
- Magnus Granberg & Skogen – Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee
- Fibes Oh Fibes: Album
- Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby: I ljuset av Cornelis
- Shout Out Louds – Our Ill Wills
- Shout Out Louds – Oh, Sweetheart E.P.
- Taken By Trees – Open Field
- Sahara Hotnights – What if leaving is a loving thing
- Existensminimum – Last night my head tried to explode and i wrote everything down
- Monty's Loco – Man Overboard
- Marit Bergman – I think it's a rainbow
- Moneybrother – To die Alone
- Deportees – Damage Goods
- Sarah Blasko – As day follows night
- Smile – A flash in the night
- Smile – Satellite Blues (Vinyl Single)
- Nicolai Dunger – A Dress Book
- Nicolai Dunger – Here's my song
- Nicolai Dunger – Sjunger Edith Södergran
- The Concretes – In Colour
- Yttling Jazz – Oh lord, why can't I keep my big mouth shut
- EP's Trailerpark – L'esperit d'escalier
- Folke – Folke
- Kroumata / Lahti Symphony Orchestra: Kalevi Aho – Symphony Nr 11 (Kroumata Symphony)
- Kroumata / Oslo Philharmonic : Rolf Wallin – Act [22]
- André Chini / Kroumata / Norrbottens Kammarorkester – Eallin
- A Spirit's Whisper – selected works by Bo Nilsson [23]
- Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Esa Pekka Salonen: Dallapiccola – Il Prigionerio
- Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Evgeny Svetlanov: Shostakovitj v Symphony Nr 7
- Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Leif Segerstam: Sven-David Sandström-High Mass
- Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Leif Segerstam: Lutoslawski, Penderecki Cello concertos