Jonas Reingold

Jonas Reingold is a 32 years old bass player from Malmo, Sweden. He started to play bass 1986 when he subbed for a friend who was the bassplayer in the local famous act WIRE. The band was happy with his performance and offered him the spot. From 1988-1994 he studied music and achieved a master degree of fine arts 1994. Busy working as a session player between 1994-1996 he finally released his debut album as a band leader 1995 "Sweden bass Orchestra" A bass big band consisting 5 bass players and a drummer. They also had a guest performance by the living legend Niels-Henning Orstedt Pedersen on the disc. Between 1996-1999 Reingold was busy recording with various artists and different projects, Midnight Sun, Reingold, Sand and Gold to name a few.

In 1999 he started to work with the Flower Kings, replacing Michael Stolt who moved on to other things, and is still a permanent member in the group. Right now he is involved with the Kings and his own band Karma-Kanics.

Read the recent interview with Jonas about the forthcoming Karmakanic cd Entering the spectra, which should be released in late Aug/Sep 2002.