‘Parts Work’ has been out for 3 weeks. Thanks for listening. Thanks for spreading the word. Thanks for showing up for the release show. Thanks for purchasing the digital album on Bandcamp. Thanks for buying out the vinyl. Will be more available soon stay tooned. Grateful for all the support. ❤️
Midwest Tour pt. 1
1. Hi I’m Jöl
2. Meet the band as it was in St. Louis. From left to right Jeff, Jole, Kirsten, Erin and I can’t begin to explain the endless joy and blessing of making music and sharing time and space with these wonderful beings
3. Meet Jesse. Behind the scenes keeping everyone on time and in line. Driving. Selling merch. The All-star. Endless gratitude for this wonderful human.
4. The 4 of us played Leave Me Out from the new album together at @offbroadwaystl in St. Louis
5. Meet Donald the beautiful human in charge of Good Wishes in Shreveport who stayed late to feed us and tell us the story behind his restaurant please visit them if you’re ever nearby
6. Jeff needs tolets
7. Pomelos @vanguardtulsa in Tulsa
8. Jeff and I played the first show alone together but my sister was there watching from behind space and time with a sweet smile
9. I surfed the infinity wave in Tulsa for 3.9 seconds and then drank heavily of the Arkansas River thanks to my new friend Dave who let me borrow his board and life jacket and helmet so I could do that
10. Erin, Jeff and I played Different Grass @theburlky in Lexington
11. The Gathering Place in Tulsa. Highly recommend. Bald eagles watch me never die on skate park
12. The van keeps us safe and Jeff from falling over
13. Tusker, muratina, chapati and Charles in Texas
14. Jeff exits the van for the last time
Will share more soon when my phone stops exploding from all the videos
Love you so much thanks for coming out and staying in and being you and all the immense hospitality see you soon maybe ❤️❤️🙏
Our friend @mechanicalriver is in tour mode, and is back on the road this month with more friends @shovelsnrope ! We’re lucky to have received some limited run records that are available for purchase! Come snag one, perfect beautiful soundtrack for spring and beyond!
Record art designed and created by @mechanicalriver@marcusrussellprice@prokhaus
liner note/poster by @ransomnotemedia
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Music + art + community + food= community
It’s a stunner of a day, and we have a boatload of coffee and plenty of breakfast and lunch ready for you, too, see ya over here! 😘
At the heart of “Everybody’s Battling Something” is a simple truth. Everybody’s carrying something, even when it doesn’t show. The song appears as the tenth track on ‘Parts Work’ by @mechanicalriver , the recording project of Joel T. Hamilton. The track moves with an easy swing, drifting along on a bouncing piano line on the album.
For this live session, Hamilton is joined by Jeff Caldwell, reworking the song on acoustic guitars. The shift brings the performance closer, unveiling the song in an intimate, direct light. Filmed in front of the “I Love My Friends” mural at the former Hunter-Gatherer building on South Main Street, the session took place just weeks before the site’s demolition in June 2025.
Against that backdrop, the song’s message feels especially resonant.
Extra Chill interviewed Joel Hamilton of @mechanicalriver about 'Parts Work', their first full-length album since 2017
The album arrives October 18th with a show on the @chspourhouse main stage alongside The Shrimp Records Family Band featuring @namelessnumberhead plus Carrie Ann Hearst of @shovelsnrope
Read the full interview about Joel's creative process on Extra Chill today, and don’t miss this show next Saturday! 🥶
Gracious New Year lovely people real and artificial. Im growing to accept this passing of time experience. I think. They say growth comes in many forms. I grow out my hair to make room for my brane. Which needs space to keep all these dimensions in tact. How are you i love you. I have a lot of songs that I am excited to share and Im all but promising a minimum of 20 to be released in 2025. More details on that very soon! Keep kindness and be well please.
Hey music heads. There are a few MR videos that slipped thru the cracks over the years/never seen the light of day. I made this one with Chris Byler in NYC one summer. Hope you enjoy it. We had fun making it. Find it in its entirety by searching you tube. The song is called Pentagrate. 🙏
Kauai tour complete. 11 shows on the garden island. Filled with endless gratitude and inspired by so many beautiful people and THE NATURE HAS REALLY OUTDONE ITSELF. Big thanks to @chefcaldwell who is NOT on instigran and all the perfect people that helped make it possible I’m looking at u @travelinroots
All the wonderful people at @tahitinuihanalei comma @kauaicommonground comma a man named hamster. Cant wait to get back comma 💚 will share more next month 👋🙇
I wrote and tracked this song about 8 years ago. Its called Then I Was Born. Ive got a birth circle coming around and this song crowned on my radar today so i figured ill push it out.
Sunday is the completion of my second round of 20 units. My oldest has 10 and his might have about negative 20. My dad has 70. When T has 30 ill have 60 and he’ll have 90. Check out this song if you will and if you feel compelled come hear it live sunday at @chicofeos i’ll be making some sounds with a few friends from about 3 til 6 depending on dayliessavingstimes andall that and then who knowswhat.
I had the immense honor of performing this song with some of my most magical friends a few years ago at the @chsmusichall for one of the groundhog day shows and then again a couple years later at electric lady studios (need to find recording) because my precious friend @nkoci had charted it out for a choir in Brooklyn he was directing and sent me a recording of them performing which I did find and i’ll share some of here as well. Idk why it took me so long but here it is in its original form right after I wrote it. Or while I was catching it.
Thanks for riding this wave with me. I feel blessed 🙏🙇♂️
You can listen and download at @embassyfreqs dot com
