"Sweet Heartache" is the single from the three song mini EP of the same title (available only by download at the Marvin and the Cloud Wall website). "Sweet Heartache" was written and performed by Joe Novelli (©2012, BMI), with Keith "Touch" Saunders on bass and percusion, and Imani Coppola on violin. Produced, engineered, and mixed by Keith "Touch" Saunders and Joe Novelli. Artwork by Chris Jacobs. And a bit on Marvin and the Cloud Wall: 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 (J DiMenna [Brooklyn], Saint Bernadette [CT], Howe Gelb [Tucson, AZ], Emily Arin [Philadelphia], Imani Coppola [Brooklyn], These United States [USA - various], The Gentlemen of Monster Island [Tucson, AZ], Nive Nielsen [Greenland], Jennie Lowe Stearns [Ithaca, NY], Gabriel Miller Phillips [Brooklyn], Gabriel Sullivan and the Taraf De Tucson [Tucson, AZ], Mary Lorson [Ithaca, NY], Kenneth O'Meara [Lubbock, TX], The Highgraders [Lubbock, TX], Red Shahhan [Lubbock, TX], and many more). 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. Folks say the loveliest things about Joe's playing: "Aching slide guitar"--HARP Magazine "Ghostly"--Allmusic.com "Serpentine slide and lap steel"--My Old Kentucky Blog "Breathtaking"--Ithaca Journal