John Eriksson (musician)

John Eriksson (musician)
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.
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
Kroumata – Encores
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
André Chini / Kroumata / Norrbottens Kammarorkester – Eallin
A Spirit's Whisper – selected works by Bo Nilsson
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
References
Additional sources
Swedish record producers
Swedish rock musicians
Swedish drummers
Male drummers
1974 births
Living people
People from Piteå Municipality
Peter Bjorn and John members
21st-century drummers
21st-century Swedish male musicians