John Eriksson

John Eriksson is a Swedish musician and composer best known as a founding member of Peter Bjorn and John.^[1][2] He was born in 1974 and raised in Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden.^{[3][citation needed]}

Career

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][9] and in 1998 he was a marimba soloist during the Stockholm International Percussion Event.^[10] From 1999 to 2008, he was a musician, arranger and composer in the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble.^[11][12]

From 1999, he was one of the founding members, musician, composer, arranger and producer of the band Peter Bjorn and John.^[13] More recently, he has recorded as dance music act Hortlax Cobra,^[14] who produced 3 vinyl EPs.^[15] Another side project is "disco-kraut" act Holiday For Strings.^[16][17][18] He was also composer for projects with Teenage Engineering.^[19] 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.^[20]

Discography

As composer, arranger

As Musician: (excerpts)

References

Additional sources

• Halperin, Shirley (February 22, 2008). "In the Studio: Peter Bjorn and John". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 23, 2012. 
• Lucas, John (May 17, 2007). "Peter Bjorn and John". Georgia Straight. Retrieved May 23, 2012. 
• Sterdan, Darryl (April 14, 2009). "No Writer's Block for Peter Bjorn and John". Canoe.ca. Retrieved May 23, 2012.