Marvin and the Cloud Wall was born from a love of the softly harsh country of northern NY and VT, the streets and bridges of Brooklyn, the smells and sun of Tucson, the way southern time ignores itself entirely, the American literary lexicon, the never-ending highway, and an almost painful gravity towards sound impacting and color.
Marvin and the Cloud Wall is the solo project of musician Joe Novelli, known for his genre-bending lap steel work with bands and artists from the world over (see JoeNovelli.com for more on those fine collaborations, as well as the "Friends" page for links to those fine folks). In this project a 1972 drum machine named Marvin joins Joe (and sometimes a drummer or two) to blend guttural slide blues, garage rock, indie americana, and cinematic layers into a rumpus both beautiful and brutal, depending on the whimsy of the listener. |
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Road and Radio
3.21.2012
Off on the road again, Marvin and I are taking a pit stop in the fair city of New Orleans to play on WWOZ's "Sittin at the Crossroads with Big D" today round 2, and the Allways Lounge with the magnificent Julie Odell tomorrow, and so on and so forth (look to the right for continuously updating show listings). SXSW was a blast, both playing with Marvin, and a couple times good friend Fen Ikner sitting in on the drums, and even once Lisa Gamble rocking the saw to whole new levels of cinematic delight, and a bunch of times getting to sit in with other wonderful friends, Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children, Seashell Radio, Craig Marshall, and backing up Rebecca Miller with new and old friends from the Mynabirds. It was a blast. I'm tired! Now only another month of road-dogging before the paradise of a whole month pounding nails in VT. Anywho, catch Marvin and I along the way somewhere, or bring us to your town/festival and say hello. We're starting to get the "Sweet Heartache" single and EP onto radio and whatnot, but could use all the help we can get spreading the word about it. So by all means download it, share it with your friends till they download it, request it on your local college radio or NPR station, give it to the station, write a blog about it, give it to someone special who won't take offense at the decidedly non-gushing-love-song lyricism, etc. And have a lovely spring day!! -Joe and Marvin 
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Whoop and holler because you can now download Marvin & the Cloud Wall, both "Live at Autumn Ridge" (a live basement recording from Novemeber 2011 with accompanying videos on Youtube) and "The Loaded Gun Demos" (a compilation of demos and a couple live tracks from the past few years). You can download them only from this here site for a donation of whatever you'd like. Some of the songs are even free if you sign up for the mailing list...because who doesn't love a deal. And very soon you will able to download the 3 song mini-EP "Sweet Heartache." Hot Damn.
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