''Chicanery'' is the debut

album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records co ...

of the band Chicanery, a collaboration between

Warren Cuccurullo Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (born December 8, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, restaurant owner and former body builder who first worked with Frank Zappa during the 1970s. He was also a founding member of Missing Persons in the 1980s ...

( Frank Zappa,

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, and Duran Duran); and Neil Carlill (

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and Lodger). The album was released simultaneously in North America and

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on May 11, 2010. ''Chicanery'' was made available in CD and digital formats in America and in digital format initially in Europe. The debut single, "Hubert Selby Song", that draws from the life and works of American writer

Hubert Selby Jr. Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1964) and ''Requiem for a Dream'' (1978) explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of whi ...

, was released, along with "Gold Pavilions" as an extra track on iTunes on April 27, 2010. Neil Carlill first met

in England in the late 1990s. Carlill was a guest on the TV Mania project that was created by both Cuccurullo and

Nick Rhodes Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates, 8 June 1962) is an English keyboardist and producer, best known as a founding member, keyboardist, and only continuous member of the band Duran Duran. He is also informally monikered as "The Controller ...

of Duran Duran. A number of years after both Cuccurullo and Carlill relocated to the

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, they began work on ''Chicanery''.“Interview with Chicanery”
‘’The idiot Bastard Son of T'Mershi Duween’’ April 23, 2010 responses to 4th and 5th questions Musicians who have provided support on the album include

Terry Bozzio Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Perso ...

, whose work with Cuccurullo extends back to the late 1970s with Frank Zappa, Joe Travers, also a Frank Zappa alumnus, renowned sarangi virtuoso

Ustad Sultan Khan Ustad Sultan Khan (15 April 1940 – 27 November 2011) was an Indian ''sarangi'' player and classical vocalist belonging to ''Sikar Gharana''. He was one of the founding members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with Zakir Huss ...

, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Simone Sello. Additional guest musicians include Stuart Dayman, Bizarro Patanè, Damon Muldavin, and Manuel Stagars.

Track listing

Songs written by Warren Cuccurullo and Neil Carlill, except where noted. #"The Rung Below" (Cuccurullo/Carlill/Simone Sello) – 4:21 #"Hubert Selby Song" (Cuccurullo/Carlill/Simone Sello) – 3:57 #"The Midnight Owls" (Carlill) – 4:02 #"Ice Page Repo" – 4:31 #"Solid Gold Helicopter" (Cuccurullo/Carlill/Simone Sello) – 2:48 #"Alien Chant" (Cuccurullo/Carlill/Simone Sello) – 3:10 #"Cut Me from the Mirror" – 4:13 #"I.O.D." (Carlill) – 3:51 #"Chessmaniaques" (Cuccurullo/Carlill/Manuel Stagars) – 2:42 #"I Came Back to You" – 3:49 #"Luminal Dark" (Carlill) – 3:30 #"Gold Pavilions" (Cuccurullo/Carlill/Simone Sello) – 3:00 #"Hit the Wall" (Carlill) – 4:07

Personnel

* Neil Carlill -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, acoustic guitar,

synth A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

, keyboards, harmonica, bass,

ukulele The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ), also called Uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. The tone and volume of the instrumen ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

s, vocals,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

v-drums V-Drums (Virtual Drums) are a line of electronic drums by Roland Corporation Introduced originally in 1997. Trigger types V-Drums trigger devices are of four major types: mesh-head drum pads, rubber pads, cymbal pads and acoustic drum tri ...

, loops,

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- drums * Simone Sello - rhythm guitar, bass, mellotron, synths,

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

vocoder A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder was ...

, programming * Joe Travers - drums, v-drums *

sarangi The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the ''serja'') – in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It is ...

, vocals

Additional guest musicians

*Stuart Dayman - drums *Bizarro Patanè - bass *Damon Muldavin - percussion *Manuel Stagars - tapes, keyboards, drum machines

Production

*Producer: Simone Sello *Engineer: Fabio Angelini *Mastering: Mike Pachelli *Creative Consultant: Jarrell Pair *Album Artwork Design and Layout: Jeff Mellin *Album Cover Photo: Tim Mahoney

References

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