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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Summer 2013!! Travels with many
On the road with Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta playing some galldang fun slide guitar to crazy indie mambo all-sorts-of-stuff music. Directly after on Sunday I play a rad show with Greenlandic bud Nive Nielsen at Hotel Congress with a bunch of radical acts, then me and Marvin will haul up the coast to a buddy's wedding, playing a couple fun shows on the way. For all of these shows with other bands playing on the slide gitter, get yourself over to www.joenovelli.com for updated dates.
June will find me across the country and back for a run with the fabulous Rebecca Marie Miller (of Mynabirds and Braves the Day) and our palz Ark Life (Jesse Elliott and co's awesome new band). And then July will bring Marvin and I back together for a bunch of shows from AZ to MN and back again, just like the Hobbit ... details of those to follow. And August I'll get on back to Tucson for Craig Schumacher's PotLuck Conference, which is going to be awesome. Alrighty. this will get updated as we get along. come kick it! -Joe (and Marvin of course) 
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Whoop and holler because you can now download Marvin & the Cloud Wall... the 3 song mini-EP "Sweet Heartache," "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. Hot Damn.
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