Joe Novelli

Multi-instrumentalist and writer, known for his lap-slide guitar playing, trumpet work and songwriting. He spends much of his time touring overseas from Europe to Greenland to Japan, and his off-time in Tucson, AZ. He primarily performs with Greenland-based "Arctic Indie" band Nive and the Deer Children, Tucson-based "Indie-Mambo" band Orkesta Mendoza, and his own Indie garage rock / punk blues band The Cloud Walls. Novelli records for artists and composers world-wide in a diverse array of styles, from experimental orchestral pop and cinematic soundscapes to indie rock, country, folk, desert noir, latin, garage, raucous punk blues and fuzzed out soul. Novelli writes for bands (bios and such), blogs, magazines, graduate academic programs and educational companies.