Composer
Sound designer
Recordist
Songwriter
Based in England, Guy Jackson is a composer who specialises in highly emotional, crafted, layered musical compositions, amalgamating acoustic and electronic sounds and encompassing both classical and ambient genres.
His work is perfectly suited to the silver screen, enhancing and supporting the mood and tone of a broad variety of visual content.
Guy is the resident composer and sound designer for Berlin-based game creators, Jo-Mei Games and he scored and produced the sound effects for many of their online games. Jo-Mei recently created the console game Sea of Solitude that was released July 2019 is association with Electronic Arts and Sony Masterworks released the Sea of Solitude original soundtrack on Sony Classical.
Alongside his soundtrack projects he composes with his long-term collaborator, pedal steel guitarist, BJ Cole. Guy and BJ have produced two CDs in the form of the critically acclaimed Transparent Music project, which features musicians such as the legendary Davy Spillane, trumpeter Arve Henriksen, bassist Mo Foster and slide guitarist Michael Messer.
More recently he crafted one of his favourite Joni Mitchell albums – Hejira. His niner, his nonagon, his nine track homage to Joni contained nine vocalists, nine novel new arrangements and no guitars. Hejira revisited.
His album project that has spanned many other projects is Sad Sad Situation and is close to completion.