Chicanery
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Chicanery, an American
experimental rock
band, is a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo
and Neil Carlill
. The band is based in Los Angeles California, although band members live across the U.S. The focus of the project is to present an alternative musical form, to depict a psychotic and surreal vision of pop music.
, England
.
With Duran Duran
at that time, Warren Cuccurullo
had founded TV Mania
with Nick Rhodes
, and he was searching for a lead singer for the second segment of that project.
While working in his recording studio, Cuccurullo
heard the voice of Neil Carlill
, lead singer of the group Delicatessen
on one of that band's music videos, and thought that it would fit the project. Cuccurullo
found Carlill
through the group’s record label, and invited him to record some music at the studio.
In addition, prior to that meeting, in the summer of 1998 Ustad Sultan Khan
and Cuccurullo
recorded material together, some of which was used for “Cut Me from the Mirror”, a track on the Chicanery
album.
When Cuccurullo
relocated back to Los Angeles
after his tenure with Duran Duran
ended in 2001, he lost touch with Neil Carlill
for a period of time. After they reestablished contact, Carlill
sent demos of his latest music to Cuccurullo
. Four of those tracks were used in the Chicanery
album.
In 2005 the bulk of the tracks for the debut album were cut in Los Angeles
at Red Rum Studios, and some of the music was recorded in Massachusetts
. Often, tracks would be recorded at home studios, sent to Simone Sello
, and then on to the larger studios for recording and mixing to create the finished product.
Chicanery's debut album, Chicanery
was released on May 11, 2010.
Also with Cuccurullo
and Carlill
on selected sessions are long-time Cuccurullo
collaborator Terry Bozzio
, Frank Zappa
alumnus Joe Travers, renowned sarangi virtuoso Ustad Sultan Khan
, multi-instrumentalist and producer Simone Sello
and other guests.
auditioned successfully as a guitarist for Frank Zappa
. He started in Zappa’s
touring band and subsequently played on fourteen of Zappa’s
albums, including among others Joe's Garage
, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
, and Tinseltown Rebellion.
In 1980, he co-founded the new wave
band Missing Persons and composed the music and wrote the lyrics for much of the work on the albums released by that band. Missing Persons' album Spring Session M
earned a gold record in 1983. Cuccurullo
was also involved in making Missing Persons' music videos at the time when MTV
had just begun.
After Missing Persons, Cuccurullo
had his greatest success as guitarist for Duran Duran
for fifteen years. Replacing original guitarist Andy Taylor in 1986, he performed on the albums Notorious ('86) and Big Thing
('88), and was the sole guitarist on the global tours that followed. Becoming an official member in 1989, he appeared on the group's next four studio albums, including being the co-writer of hit singles Ordinary World
and Come Undone, both of which were included on the Duran Duran (Wedding Album)
that garnered platinum sales. In 1995 Cuccurullo
founded TV Mania
, where Neil Carlill
was a guest a few years later. Cuccurullo
left Duran Duran
in 2001 due to a reunion of the group's original members.
Since that time, Cuccurullo
has recorded solo albums including Road Rage, Machine Language, and recently, Playing in Tongues. He has collaborated with musicians including Frank Sinatra
, Blondie
, Dweezil Zappa
, Shenkar
, Milton Nascimento
, Wes Wehmiller
, and Patrick O'Hearn
, as well as Terry Bozzio
.
In addition to being a significant force in bringing albums to gold and platinum status, Cuccurullo
has received numerous awards and honors. Among others, Ordinary World
, for which he composed the music, received an Ivor
.
, poet, lyricist, composer, and musician was a founding member of Delicatessen
an indie-rock band formed in 1994 in Leicester
, England
. Signed to Big Life Records and Publishing, Delicatessen
released three albums and four singles. They also recorded two sessions for the John Peel
show. The group disbanded in 1998.
Carlill
then joined the Brit pop superband Lodger, whose single ’’I'm Leaving’’ (Island Records), on their album “A Walk in the Park”, reached the UK Top 40 in 1998. Carlill’s
voice was characterized as unlike anything one had ever heard in reference to emotional songs.
It was during that time period that Carlill
appeared on TV Mania
as a result of Warren Cuccurullo's
having heard him singing on Delicatessen's
music video for Monkey Suit.
In 2000, Carlill
moved to the United States and took a break from music till 2004, at which point he began work on Chicanery with Warren Cuccurullo
.
Since 2004, Carlill
has also worked with Manuel Stagars and Janek Siegele on Vedette. That band played at the Donau Festival in Krems Austria in 2008, and the Klangbad Festival in Scheer Germany in 2009. Vedette released their eponym
ously titled album in 2007 on Stilll Records (Belgium).
Additional projects that Neil Carlill
has worked on include 5 Little Elephants with Charles-Eric Charrier; Shoosh with Craig Murphy and Ed Drury, who released their debut album "The Orpheum Circuit" on Herb Records in 2008; and Me Me the Moth with Marcelo Radulovich, who released their debut album on dPulse Recordings in 2010.
Carlill
is inspired by James Joyce
, Captain Beefheart
, Max Ernst
, the DaDaists, Kurt Schwitters
, Alfred Jarry
, and Georges Perec
. Concerning his writing lyrics, he has stated in an interview, "...it's a connection to the sub-conscious a side-stepping of the rational brain to let what's in you spiritually manifest itself in your creative medium. I mess with words as they come flying out of my brain uninvited. I think it's more like prose-poetry sometimes, hypertext, concentrated meaning in a seemingly abstract construction."
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
experimental rock
Experimental rock
Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....
band, is a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
and Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
. The band is based in Los Angeles California, although band members live across the U.S. The focus of the project is to present an alternative musical form, to depict a psychotic and surreal vision of pop music.
History
The history of Chicanery extends back to the late 1990s in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
With Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
at that time, Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
had founded TV Mania
TV Mania
TV Mania was an electronic band founded in 1995 that consisted of keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, both of Duran Duran and producer/multi-instrumentalist Anthony J. Resta...
with Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...
, and he was searching for a lead singer for the second segment of that project.
While working in his recording studio, Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
heard the voice of Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
, lead singer of the group Delicatessen
Delicatessen (band)
Delicatessen were an indie-rock group formed in Leicester, England in the early 1990s. They released three albums and four singles before splitting in 1998.-Biography:...
on one of that band's music videos, and thought that it would fit the project. Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
found Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
through the group’s record label, and invited him to record some music at the studio.
In addition, prior to that meeting, in the summer of 1998 Ustad Sultan Khan
Ustad Sultan Khan
Ustad Sultan Khan was an Indian sarangi player and singer who performed Hindustani classical music. He was one of the members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell...
and Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
recorded material together, some of which was used for “Cut Me from the Mirror”, a track on the Chicanery
Chicanery (album)
Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. The album was released...
album.
When Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
relocated back to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
after his tenure with Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
ended in 2001, he lost touch with Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
for a period of time. After they reestablished contact, Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
sent demos of his latest music to Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
. Four of those tracks were used in the Chicanery
Chicanery (album)
Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. The album was released...
album.
In 2005 the bulk of the tracks for the debut album were cut in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
at Red Rum Studios, and some of the music was recorded in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. Often, tracks would be recorded at home studios, sent to Simone Sello
Simone Sello
Simone Sello is an Italian born guitarist, music producer, songwriter and music journalist. He is known for his work with the Sanremo Festival Orchestra, Chicanery, Billy Sheehan, Aaron Carter, Disney, Hannah Montana, Vasco Rossi, Amber Lily, and Warren Cuccurullo, both as a producer and...
, and then on to the larger studios for recording and mixing to create the finished product.
Chicanery's debut album, Chicanery
Chicanery (album)
Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. The album was released...
was released on May 11, 2010.
Also with Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
and Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
on selected sessions are long-time Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
collaborator Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio
Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
, Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
alumnus Joe Travers, renowned sarangi virtuoso Ustad Sultan Khan
Ustad Sultan Khan
Ustad Sultan Khan was an Indian sarangi player and singer who performed Hindustani classical music. He was one of the members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science, with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell...
, multi-instrumentalist and producer Simone Sello
Simone Sello
Simone Sello is an Italian born guitarist, music producer, songwriter and music journalist. He is known for his work with the Sanremo Festival Orchestra, Chicanery, Billy Sheehan, Aaron Carter, Disney, Hannah Montana, Vasco Rossi, Amber Lily, and Warren Cuccurullo, both as a producer and...
and other guests.
Warren Cuccurullo
In December 1978, Warren CuccurulloWarren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
auditioned successfully as a guitarist for Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
. He started in Zappa’s
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
touring band and subsequently played on fourteen of Zappa’s
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
albums, including among others Joe's Garage
Joe's Garage
Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. Zappa stated that along with Lumpy Gravy, this album was one of his finest achievements. It was originally released as two separate albums, the first comprising Act I, and the second part as a double-album which made up Acts II & III. All three...
, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar is a triple vinyl album, originally issued mail order-only as three separate volumes, featuring live material recorded by Frank Zappa between February 1977 and December 1980. The final track, "Canard du Jour", is a duet with Frank Zappa on electric bouzouki and Jean-Luc...
, and Tinseltown Rebellion.
In 1980, he co-founded the new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
band Missing Persons and composed the music and wrote the lyrics for much of the work on the albums released by that band. Missing Persons' album Spring Session M
Spring Session M
Spring Session M is the debut album by American new wave band Missing Persons, released in 1982 . The title of the album is an anagram of the band's name. Tracks from this album: "Words", "Windows", "Destination Unknown", and "Walking in LA" all had videos created and all received heavy play on...
earned a gold record in 1983. Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
was also involved in making Missing Persons' music videos at the time when MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
had just begun.
After Missing Persons, Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
had his greatest success as guitarist for Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
for fifteen years. Replacing original guitarist Andy Taylor in 1986, he performed on the albums Notorious ('86) and Big Thing
Big Thing
Big Thing is the fifth album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988. It reached #15 in the UK and #24 in the US.A CD reissue was released in 1994. The album is was reissued as a three disc boxset on .- Background :...
('88), and was the sole guitarist on the global tours that followed. Becoming an official member in 1989, he appeared on the group's next four studio albums, including being the co-writer of hit singles Ordinary World
Ordinary World
"Ordinary World" is the first single from Duran Duran's self-titled 1993 album, better known as The Wedding Album. The song peaked at No. 3 in the American charts and No. 6 in the British charts...
and Come Undone, both of which were included on the Duran Duran (Wedding Album)
Duran Duran (1993 album)
Duran Duran is the seventh studio album and the second self-titled album by Duran Duran, released on 23 February 1993. The cover art by Nick Egan features wedding photos from the parents of the four band members.Recording of the album was completed in early 1992 with an impending release by...
that garnered platinum sales. In 1995 Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
founded TV Mania
TV Mania
TV Mania was an electronic band founded in 1995 that consisted of keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, both of Duran Duran and producer/multi-instrumentalist Anthony J. Resta...
, where Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
was a guest a few years later. Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
left Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
in 2001 due to a reunion of the group's original members.
Since that time, Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
has recorded solo albums including Road Rage, Machine Language, and recently, Playing in Tongues. He has collaborated with musicians including Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, Blondie
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...
, Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...
, Shenkar
L. Shankar
Lakshminarayanan Shankar, also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer.-Early life:...
, Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
, Wes Wehmiller
Wes Wehmiller
Wes Wehmiller was a bass guitarist who performed with Duran Duran and Missing Persons.He was born in New York City, and named after John Wesley Powell...
, and Patrick O'Hearn
Patrick O'Hearn
Patrick O'Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist. While his musical repertoire spans a diverse range of music, he is an acclaimed New Age artist in his solo career...
, as well as Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio
Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
.
In addition to being a significant force in bringing albums to gold and platinum status, Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
has received numerous awards and honors. Among others, Ordinary World
Ordinary World
"Ordinary World" is the first single from Duran Duran's self-titled 1993 album, better known as The Wedding Album. The song peaked at No. 3 in the American charts and No. 6 in the British charts...
, for which he composed the music, received an Ivor
Ivor Novello
David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
.
Neil Carlill
Neil CarlillNeil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
, poet, lyricist, composer, and musician was a founding member of Delicatessen
Delicatessen (band)
Delicatessen were an indie-rock group formed in Leicester, England in the early 1990s. They released three albums and four singles before splitting in 1998.-Biography:...
an indie-rock band formed in 1994 in Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Signed to Big Life Records and Publishing, Delicatessen
Delicatessen (band)
Delicatessen were an indie-rock group formed in Leicester, England in the early 1990s. They released three albums and four singles before splitting in 1998.-Biography:...
released three albums and four singles. They also recorded two sessions for the John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
show. The group disbanded in 1998.
Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
then joined the Brit pop superband Lodger, whose single ’’I'm Leaving’’ (Island Records), on their album “A Walk in the Park”, reached the UK Top 40 in 1998. Carlill’s
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
voice was characterized as unlike anything one had ever heard in reference to emotional songs.
It was during that time period that Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
appeared on TV Mania
TV Mania
TV Mania was an electronic band founded in 1995 that consisted of keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, both of Duran Duran and producer/multi-instrumentalist Anthony J. Resta...
as a result of Warren Cuccurullo's
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
having heard him singing on Delicatessen's
Delicatessen (band)
Delicatessen were an indie-rock group formed in Leicester, England in the early 1990s. They released three albums and four singles before splitting in 1998.-Biography:...
music video for Monkey Suit.
In 2000, Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
moved to the United States and took a break from music till 2004, at which point he began work on Chicanery with Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
.
Since 2004, Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
has also worked with Manuel Stagars and Janek Siegele on Vedette. That band played at the Donau Festival in Krems Austria in 2008, and the Klangbad Festival in Scheer Germany in 2009. Vedette released their eponym
Eponym
An eponym is the name of a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named...
ously titled album in 2007 on Stilll Records (Belgium).
Additional projects that Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
has worked on include 5 Little Elephants with Charles-Eric Charrier; Shoosh with Craig Murphy and Ed Drury, who released their debut album "The Orpheum Circuit" on Herb Records in 2008; and Me Me the Moth with Marcelo Radulovich, who released their debut album on dPulse Recordings in 2010.
Carlill
Neil Carlill
Neil Carlill , born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including...
is inspired by James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
, Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet January 15, 1941 December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12...
, Max Ernst
Max Ernst
Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.-Early life:...
, the DaDaists, Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...
, Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side....
, and Georges Perec
Georges Perec
Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist and essayist. He is a member of the Oulipo group...
. Concerning his writing lyrics, he has stated in an interview, "...it's a connection to the sub-conscious a side-stepping of the rational brain to let what's in you spiritually manifest itself in your creative medium. I mess with words as they come flying out of my brain uninvited. I think it's more like prose-poetry sometimes, hypertext, concentrated meaning in a seemingly abstract construction."
Album
| Year | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Chicanery Chicanery (album) Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. The album was released... |
dPulse Recordings |
Singles
| Year | Song | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "Hubert Selby Song" | Chicanery Chicanery (album) Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. The album was released... |
dPulse Recordings |
| 2010 | "Gold Pavillions" | Chicanery Chicanery (album) Chicanery is the debut album of the group Chicanery, a collaboration between Warren Cuccurullo, formerly with Frank Zappa, a founding member of Missing Persons, and also formerly with Duran Duran; and Neil Carlill, founding member of Delicatessen, and formerly with Lodger. The album was released... |
dPulse Recordings |