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Joe NovelliX

Bio

Joe Novelli is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, and bandleader, hailing from New York but currently living in Tucson, Arizona, in the American Southwest. Known for his genre-bending lapsteel guitar work, Novelli performs internationally with Nive & the Deer Children (Greenland/Europe), Orkesta Mendoza (Tucson, Arizona), and his own band The Cloud Walls. As with his playing, Novelli’s compositions are characterized by a wide sonic palette, drawing from most anything visually and emotively evocative … ambient soundscapes to dark country balladry, southwestern noir to blistering punk-blues, cinematic indie folk to good old rock and roll. As for Novelli’s background, a youth of snow-swept hills, waterfalls, Chuck Berry, and Miles Davis gave way to an adulthood of perpetual touring throughout the states, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, and even the fjords of Greenland, passable only by helicopter and boat. This wandering life, its breadth and want for a sense of place, is at the heart of Novelli’s concept of music … the auditory and visual having become entirely inseparable, the imagery of sound. Presently, the sun beaten paradise of Tucson has come to satisfy both Novelli’s musical aesthetic and his desire for a beloved home. There is something in the endless, cactus- strewn desert pastoral, harsh and full of danger, expansive and thoughtful. The Old Pueblo’s natural and cultural beauty provides a strangely perfect harmony to its raucous, haphazard jangle of music. Punk-fueled southwestern rock and roll pours out of cracks in a gangster hotel’s 100 year old windows. Haunting steel guitar waltzes over the drunken clamor of Tucson’s favorite dive bar. Mariachi horns blast from backyards and grocery Photo © 2016 Abril Castillo store aisles. People in the desert are born artists, survivors … they live in color, a laid-back state of reckless abandon. As local legend Billy Sedlmyer says, Tucson Kills.

Nationality

USA

Joe Novelli

Albums 1

	A walk in the old pueblo	02:33 174 bpm
Description Tags Acoustic guitar / Piano / Peaceful / Road movie / Soothing / Slide / Slide guitar Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800700
	Sonoran Rose	02:49 153 bpm
Description Tags Rhythm / Mellotron / Peaceful / atmospheric / Ambient / Road movie / Slide / Pedal steel / Slide guitar Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800820
	Borderlands	02:13 104 bpm
Description Tags Dreamy / Wandering / Rhythm / Patient / Acoustic guitar / Mellotron / atmospheric / Underscore / Road movie / Pedal steel Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800710
	The road to Bisbee	02:34 153 bpm
Description Tags Dreamy / Rhythm / Confidant / atmospheric / Sound design / Acoustic / Road movie / Pedal steel / Humming male voice / Electric guitar Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800850
	Dancing with the dead	02:17 153 bpm
Description Tags Drums / Lively / Trumpet / Rhythm / Exotic / Twangy guitar / Road movie / Electronic Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800730
	Bullet Riddled Wall	02:40 183 bpm
Description Tags Rhythm / Peaceful / Suspended / Panoramic / Acoustic / Twangy guitar / Underscore / Road movie / Twangy / Pedal steel Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800720
	Nightbloom	01:50 138 bpm
Description Tags Dreamy / Wandering / Vaporous / Sound design / Ambient / Road movie / Slide guitar Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800790
	El muerte por acero	01:55 151 bpm
Description Tags Rhythm / Proud / Solemn / Suspended / Road movie / Twangy / Pedal steel / Western / Brass section Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800760
	Desert Lullaby	02:25 104 bpm
Description Tags Rhythm / Relax / Acoustic / Twangy guitar / Road movie / Humming male voice / Pedal steel / Slow / Kitsch / dancing Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800740
	Morning light in Tucson	02:15 159 bpm
Description Tags Hovering / Introspective / Sequencing / Sound design / Ambient / Road movie / Pedal steel / Spare Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800780
	Dreaming of water	03:18 197 bpm
Description Tags Luminous / Contemplative / Sequencing / Sound design / Ambient / Drone / Spatial Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800750
	Sun washed land	02:01 175 bpm
Description Tags Electric guitar / Rhythm / Patient / Theremin / Calm / Suspended / Sound design / Ambient / Acoustic / Road movie / Acoustic guitar Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800830
	Fire in the western sky	02:46 89 bpm
Description Tags atmospheric / Majestic / Sequencing / Sound design / Progressive / Underscore / Pedal steel Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800770
	Snowfall in Saguaros	05:57 141 bpm
Description Tags Dreamy / Mellotron / Panoramic / Sound design / Underscore / Road movie / Kick Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800810
	Shadows of a ghost town	10:34 143 bpm
Description Tags Introspective / atmospheric / Sequencing / Sound design / Road movie / Drone Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800800
	The lost barrio	02:09 111 bpm
Description Tags Hovering / atmospheric / Electric / Sound design / Ambient / Progressive / Road movie / Pedal steel Composers Joe Novelli Album Dance with the Death ISRC FR7Z31800840