John Eriksson

John Eriksson is a Swedish musician and composer best known as a founding member of Peter Bjorn and John. He was born in 1974 and raised in Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden.

Work
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.

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)

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

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

Montys 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 - Symphony Nr 7

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Leif Segerstam: Sven-David Sandström-High Mass

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Leif Segerstam: Lutoslawski, Penderecki Celloconcerto