Joe Adhemar started writing and recording songs from 2003 onwards. A familiar story of a Gen-X guy who bailed out of the music industry in their twenties to concentrate on their career. Despite life taking an alternative path, he stockpiled 100’s of compositions from his home-studio. Occasionally uploading them to Soundcloud. A true hobbyist with no ambition other than to enjoy the process of creation.

Then lockdown happened… and 2020 suddenly gave people like Joe an opportunity to put their music on platforms that, until COVID19 occurred, seemed like an unreachable domain.

By 2022 Joe had released 3 albums in 2 years (Angry or Serene, Found Ourselves and Existential Dreadlocks) - each one incrementally more polished than the previous but still arguably a notch below an acceptable level of production quality that comes from knowing the dark arts of mixing and mastering.

He also branched out into a second artist profile, as Invisible Squirrel. To allow him to separate his passion for Breakbeat, Funk and Trip hop from the more traditional singer-songwriter releases he had.

Then, in mid-2022, things started to pick up. The dopamine hits of acknowledgement started to rain down. In that period of around 9 months, after tentative submission of his album to Bandcamp editorial (who are arguably the most influential champions of the unsigned and obscure), Joe learnt that somehow his song-craft had pricked the ears of the Bandcamp Daily staff.

The album “About The Soul” was featured on New and Notable (Jul 2022), along with 2 albums by his alternative persona, Invisible Squirrel with “Chief and McMurphy” (Aug 2022) and “The Escape” (Mar 2023)

In early 2023 Joe released his most guitar orientated LP “The Synesthete” augmented by the powerful Rickenbacker or Telecaster in the hands of Jim Sanger, a life-long friend and Cinematic composer on the rise.

Then onwards to 2024, when Joe patiently spent a couple of years secretly penning musical letters to his diminished soul, to articulate to himself the slow creep of post-Covid melancholy, the disturbing rise of fascism and attempted anthems of misanthropic zeal, with a couple of joyous songs amongst it all.

2 years later, he tentatively released “Two Magpie Day”.

To his surprise, the album once again got a thumbs-up from BandCamp editorial and was featured on their website for a brief period in November 2024.

He had also released 8 x 30 minute albums under the Invisible Squirrel persona by that time, too.

Let me peel back the curtain here. I’m writing this in the third person, to insinuate to you, the reader of this biography, that I am an artist of credibility and achievement. No one is interested in a Bio with the words ‘I’ and ‘me’ scattered throughout it. But sadly I do not have a management team to author a list of my achievements.

For now, the imposter-syndrome is gone. I believe in my art.

See below a couple of decent endorsements on a platform I have now abandoned (Twitter). Just to back up my hubris.

Finally, I have been kept busy over the years by also doing remixes and producing others. If you want to work with me, please get in touch. I am best contacted on BlueSky or via the Soundbetter link below. I charge what you can afford. I have a really decent recording studio to use if you can get to Swansea. And if you read this because you liked my tunes. Thank you!