Joel Mandeville

Joel Mandeville has always considered music to be a vehicle which inspires personal interaction and an array of emotional response. Recognizing that so many fields of music have that ability, he hasn’t really committed to any one specific genre.

Now that he is publishing his own original music, the styles may feel as though they shift from song to song, but the underlying current of each one still invokes a push toward connection, empathy and/or self-reflection.

Although there’s a long list of influencers, from Elton John to Stevie Ray Vaughan to John Mayer, it’s not likely you will sense any of that in his songs. Completely his own stuff.

He’s recently finished his first professionally produced album entitled “Permanent Change”. “The idea behind this album is that all humans experience events in life that bring about change. Unfortunately, the single thing that has the most potential to forever change who we are or how we live, is pain. It may be a little or it may be a lot, but usually it causes us to rethink some aspect of our lives, major or minor.
We adjust, we shift, we are better because of it, or worse.”
Yet all the songs on the album promote a comfortable listening experience.