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ABOUT JP
BIO - JOEL PORTER
Joel Porter is a collector.
An alternative folk artist, composer, and producer from North Dakota, Joel’s music is marked by its sweeping harmonic landscapes, warm melodies, and achingly genuine storytelling that’s equal parts exploration and confession. Pulsing with deep emotion and a felt sense of longing, his songs are at once intimate and expansive—they offer a dynamic, living, and breathing rise and fall into and out of our own emotion and introspection.
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“Good and evil are real and capable of existing in the same space inside my heart and mind. Hope and hopelessness, past and future, beauty and ugliness . . . They all coexist as signposts on the same path with an endless amount of stops between them.”
Joel’s eagerness to dive deep with anyone, paired with his versatile musicianship (to date, he’s recorded string and brass parts for Foreign Fields, Hembree, Matthew And The Atlas, and Boom Forest), has led him to become an intentional collaborator. Along the way, he’s tapped into something real and purposeful with fellow artists and explorers. Most notably, he’s worked closely with longtime producer Eric Hillman (Foreign Fields). After the release of his intimate, poetic solo project—the nature-inspired MOUNTAIN TWIN EP—Joel and Hillman released the heritage- and family-infused HIRAETH EP.
Other notable collaborators include Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, The Staves, S. Carey, Gordi, Siv Jakobsen), Taylor Dupree, Joe Visciano (SYML, Beck), Ed Wood, Chris Gehringer (Sterling Sound) Isaac Flynn (Hembree), Nate Babbs, Brian Holl (Boy Bjorn, Foreign Fields), Lydia Luce (Lockland Strings), and IMOGEN.
Ultimately, Joel’s pointed exploration through songwriting and music provides him a courageous and unapologetic look into the depths of the mind and the human journey we all are tasked with . . . a universal journey, one that many of us take in pursuit of understanding ourselves better. And it’s this very understanding that unlocks compassion and love—for both ourselves and others.
—Julian R. Vaca