Jens Lodén

I am a bassplayer, producer and composer living in Lund, Sweden. I work in my own studio called Loplay Studio.
Besides from composing, playing and releasing music as Jens Loden or Reunion, (joint project with Mathias Landaeus) I have made music for a number of radio and tv programmes on Swedish national radio and tv.
In Loplay Studio I also produce albums and make remixes for other artists, such as Sofi Hellborg, Behrang Miri, Maximus, Universal Poplab and Per Texas Johansson. My own musical projects have been remixed by for instance Mikael Stavostrand, Henrik Schwarz, Jimpster and Orlando Voorn.



BIOGRAPHY:
I was born in the south of Sweden 1969. Started taking piano lessons at the age of six and continued with that until I started to form bands and play the bass at age 12. The bass more and more became my main instrument from then on. At 17 I applied for Skurups Folkhögskola. Got accepted and studied improvisation/jazz/bass there for two years. Then was fully occupied with playing in Agurk Players for a couple of years. Started learning soundengineering and producing through an internship at Tambourine Studios. Made Agurk Players' albums there. Had a break from music around 1995-97 as my ears had started ringing and I became oversensitive to sound. Struggled with depression and panic attacks for several years. Couldn't find much else to do but painting, drawing, listening to techno and composing some strange pianomusic. Lived on wellfare. Studied philosophy. Got more and more into painting and then studied full time for a year at the art school "Lunds konstskola". Had a couple of exhibitions. Picked up music again around 97-98 with an old mac with cubase synced to my brothers 12-channel tapemachine, a DX7, a sampler and a tape echo. Quit painting 1999. (still waiting for my visual creativity to find a new outlet by the way) Made a couple of tracks. Made a remix for a band that was going to be released on the then new label Sonar Kollektiv. Sent my tracks to them and they released a 12" (ignition/cargo) with one of my own tracks and one with me and Mathias Landaeus - we started calling ourselves Reunion then. The following years several releases with Reunion at Sonar Kollektiv + many contributions on compilations. I also made a very appreciated remix album on Emi with Per Texas Johansson (Holon - Per Texas Johansson Remixad av Jens Loden), a minimal techno 12" on Mikael Stavostrands label Sunset Diskos, wrote an arrangement for a string quartet for a one off collab with Iraqy singer-songwriter/oudplayer Natik Awayez that turned out well, so we continued with some 10 arrangements/compositions by Natik and me. The constellation was called Sheharzad. I produced a recording with them in nimm studio (which was run by me and Damn) that was later released on Fine Art Recordings with a Henrik Schwarz remix.
The first full length album under the name jens loden "Automatismism" was released in 2006 on the Swedish label ajabu. Lately several releases on the London based label Fine Art Recordings.