Nationality Swedish Role Musician Name John Eriksson | Years active 1994-present Occupation Musician and composer | |
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Albums Living Thing, Seaside Rock, Gimme Some, Writer's Block, Peter Bjorn and John Similar People Bjorn Yttling, Peter Moren, Johan Silvmark | ||
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.
Career
He was born in 1974 and raised in Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden. In 1994, he founded the percussion quartet Peaux, for which he was also a musician and composer. From 1995 to 1999, he was a musician in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, 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, and in 1998 he was a marimba soloist during the Stockholm International Percussion Event. From 1999 to 2008, he was a musician, arranger and composer in the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble.
From 1999, he was one of the founding members, musician, composer, arranger and producer of the band Peter Bjorn and John. More recently, he has recorded as dance music act Hortlax Cobra, who produced 3 vinyl EPs. Another side project is "disco-kraut" act Holiday For Strings. He was also composer for projects with Teenage Engineering. 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.