Joel Shearer

Joel Shearer is an internationally established and highly regarded session and touring musician who’s played guitar for some of the worlds biggest artists, producers and composers, including Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, Annie Lennox, Joe Cocker, Damien Rice, Alanis Morrisette, Dido, Michael Buble and Sarah McLachlan. Being a songwriter and producer himself, Shearer understands the psychology and disposition of the artist, the producer and the musician, offering a sympathetic insight and experience to approaching the creative process. Responsible for helping shape, define and create the textural and warm ambient sounds behind artists like Damien Rice and Alexi Murdoch, Shearer has a reputation for creating unique, beautiful and haunting soundscapes as well as inventive parts and arrangements for both super star pop acts as well as indie and underground artists. If not recording with legendary producers like Glen Ballard, Bob Rock, Matt Serletic and Rob Cavallo or working with some of film and televisions biggest composers like AR Rahman, Teddy Shapiro, Ed Shearmur and Christopher Beck, Shearer keeps himself busy recording/writing/producing/composing, both remotely from his studio in Topanga Canyon CA but also in studios around the world from Reykjavik, Iceland to Mexico City. With a thorough understanding of shaping sound and musical arrangements, Shearer brings a unique energy and creative approach to whatever musical project he is involved with.