Neil Carlill
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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 Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, Chicanery
, and Three On A Match. His lyrics reflect the influence of DaDa
and James Joyce
, and his voice has a unique, multifaceted, "strangely alluring" character.
Carlill founded the group Delicatessen
in Leicester
, England
in 1993, and joined the British supergroup Lodger
in 1998. Both groups charted in the UK, with Lodger's
single, I’m Leaving, charting in the top 40. Lodger
disbanded after one album, 1998's A Walk in the Park. Delicatessen
, having released three critically acclaimed albums, broke up in late 2002.
During the late 1990s, Carlill also contributed to TV Mania
, a side project of Duran Duran
members Nick Rhodes
and Warren Cuccurullo
.
Having relocated to the United States in 2000, Neil Carlill temporarily slowed his musical output until, in 2004, he resumed working with Warren Cuccurullo
, this time on the eponymous debut album from the project titled Chicanery
. During this period he also founded the bands Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, and Three On A Match through collaborations with numerous musicians in the U.S. and Europe
.
He has also developed a solo project dubbed Airport Studies, and performs live under the pseudonym Harvey Mapcase. As Airport Studies, Carlill contributed a song for the Fire Records
James Joyce Tribute album , Chamber Music (James Joyce). Under his own name Carlill was a featured vocalist on Lost-Wax (2008 Plush) by Lena and the Floating Roots Orchestra. Some of Neil Carlill’s written work was also published in 2007 in Galleon (Volume 1, Number 1), a literary journal that features adventurous short fiction.
was formed by Neil Carlill (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Craig Bown (guitar, flute), Pete Capewell (bass) and Stuart Dayman (drums), taking their moniker from the 1991 French film
. They started in Leicester
, England
in 1993 and while playing shows in London
they were spotted by manager Tony Beard, and soon started to garner support from the Melody Maker
and much of the UK music press. After signing to Starfish Records, the Indie offshoot of Jazz Summers' Big Life Publishing
, their debut single Inviting Both Sisters Out To Dinner was released in October 1994, followed by the single C.F. Kane in April 1995. In a Melody Maker
review of C.F. Kane, the reviewer placed Delicatessen
in the class of bands that were “influenced by good books or good films, rather than just their late-Sixties record collections.” Subsequently, their single, I'm Just Alive charted. Delicatessen
also created the soundtrack to the Independent short film George and Ramona (starring Emily Dux and Gary Lydon, written by David Hill and Mika Kallwass) that was released in 1995.
The first album, Skin Touching Water, was released to stellar reviews in May 1995. Melody Maker
called the band "The salvation of pop music". Early in 1995, bassist Pete Capewell left and was replaced by the multi-instrumentalist Will Foster
. That summer saw Delicatessen
headlining the 3rd stage at Reading Festival, and the addition of Jonny Wood on keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, and violin. With their live band complete, they toured in Holland, Germany
and France
, and were featured at the Phoenix Festival
in 1995. The second album Hustle Into Bed, characterized as a darker, more orchestral work, was issued in 1996, produced by long time Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
and The Birthday Party
producer/engineer Tony Cohen
. After a great deal more touring there was a brief hiatus in which the Lodger
'supergroup'
came about, and then Delicatessen
reappeared in early 1998 with a new label, Viper Records
, and a third album, There's No Confusing Some People. Carlill and Foster
then continued with the Lodger
project for the rest of 1998. Following Lodger's
split, Carlill emigrated to the US, and despite attempts by him, Bown, and Dayman to keep recording, Delicatessen
finally called it quits late in 2002.
Delicatessen
recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, both in 1995. The first was a four track studio session and the second six tracks recorded at the Reading Festival.
second album, Neil Carlill and Will Foster
joined forces with Pearl Lowe
, who had fronted the Britpop
band Powder
, and Danny Goffey
of Supergrass
to form one of the most noteworthy of Britpop
superbands
, Lodger
.
Signed to Island Records
, Lodger
released a 3 track single in 1997. Its a-side, I'm Leaving, received heavy radio exposure nationally, and the single entered the UK pop charts in the top 40. Sometime thereafter came the album A Walk in the Park. From that album, Always Round Here and Small Change also charted. The videos produced for I'm Leaving and the subsequent singles were highly praised in the media for their humor and originality. It is for these same qualities that Lodger's
A Walk in the Park is considered an important release for 1990's British music.
Lodger
toured the UK in 1998 and played at that summer's Reading Festival.
at the end of the Chicanery
recordings, during which Neil made the acquaintance of electronic artist Manuel Stagars. The pair conceived an album of bizarre musical sketches derived from ambient recordings of Stagars, which were cut to song length with Carlill adding inspired vocal concoctions laced with surrealist touches and evocatively weird lyrics. Warren Cuccurullo
also contributed his singular guitar stylings to several tracks, and Carlill played ukulele and keyboards on select songs.
Vedette's self-titled debut album was released on the Stilll label(Belgium) in 2007.
Janek Siegele (Jayrope) joined Vedette in 2008 for a series of concerts in Germany
which culminated in an appearance at the Donau Musical Festival
in Austria
.
More European shows followed in 2009 with the highlight being their talked-about performance at the Klangbad Festival in Scheer Germany, with the paired-down line-up of Carlill and Siegele. Recording of the second album is in progress.
The first album is a collection of voice, percussion and noise utilizing acoustic guitar to produce an otherworldly collection of folk abstraction.
The second album is one forty seven minute song, featuring an epic narrative written and sung by Carlill.
5 Little Elephants' music has been referred to as unconventional hybrid pop with an intimate and beautiful mature, poetic scope. Both albums are being prepared for release.
Shoosh contributed two tracks to a split album with another group, Cheju, in November 2007. The album, titled Cheju & Shoosh was released on the Awkward Silence
label with a limited edition run of 300 CDs. Subsequently, the three released the album Orphem Circuit in 2008. An Igloo Magazine review described that album as "a sweltering sheet of low flying beauty," and an "Is This Music?" review explained the music as, "Soundscapes of uncomfortable beauty Pulses Dadaist in theory and practice..."
extends back to the late 1990s in London, England.
During his long stint as guitarist for Duran Duran
, Warren Cuccurullo
conceived a side project called TV Mania
with bandmate Nick Rhodes
. The duo were searching for a lead vocalist to front the endeavor when, while working in the studio, they heard the voice of Neil Carlill, lead singer of the group Delicatessen
, emanating from the television, on which one of that band's music videos was being broadcast. Cuccurullo
found Carlill through the group’s record label, and invited him to record with them at the studio.
TV Mania
was not commercially released at that time, but that meeting marked the beginning of a long-standing and currently active collaboration between Neil and Warren
.
When Cuccurullo
relocated to Los Angeles
after his time with Duran Duran
ended in 2001, he reestablished contact with Carlill and exchanged with him demos of their latest music. With each deriving great inspiration from the other's work, and seeing the potential for a brilliant album, the two men met up in LA
for the sessions that would result in Chicanery
, the album.
The bulk of the tracks on the debut album were cut in Los Angeles' Red Rum Studios in 2005, while some of the music was done back in Massachusetts
. A portion of the material Cuccurullo
had recorded with Ustad Sultan Khan
back in 1998 was used on one track, Cut Me from the Mirror. Often, tracks would be recorded at respective home studios and conveyed to producer Simone Sello
, before moving on to yet another, larger studio for post-recording and mixing to perfect the finished product. Chicanery
, an energetic, diverse and somewhat genre-busting collection of Avant Guard pop tunes, was released May 11, 2010.
Carlill credits this period with the advent of some of his finest songwriting efforts to date, which are evidenced on the Chicanery
tracks Midnight Owls, Hit the Wall, IOD, and Luminal Dark.
and Mike Keneally
among others. Their self-produced debut album The Weirding Valley contains fourteen songs constructed at long distance via the internet. Again, with tracks recorded by Neil in Salem, MA, and Marcelo in Cardiff, CA, the process involved the exchanging of sound files, which were subsequently united at Radulovich's home studio.
Taking inspiration from the best of the Fluxus movement
, The Weirding Valley is described as a tapestry woven of DADA-esque sensibilities. Shades of Wire, Pere Ubu
and Beefheart
are apparent.
The album was released in May 2010.
Four videos were made by Radulovich for the songs The Red Radio, Hounds Are Sleepy, In the Air Blind and the album's title track The Weirding Valley.
Fire Records
James Joyce tribute album Chamber Music (James Joyce) in 2008. The tribute album draws upon James Joyce
's collection of poems titled Chamber Music
, and sets all thirty six poems to music. Carlill selected Poem XI for his contribution and explained, "When I was asked to contribute to the Chamber Music album for Fire Records I was immediately drawn to Poem XI. The sexual conquest of a virgin is suggested in a bygone language of an earlier era that romantically evades the real facts of the matter. I tried to make the music slither a little, to pretend to sleaze but to support the almost polite nature of lines such as "Happy love has come to woo"." The track was produced by Janek Siegele (Jayrope).
Harvey Mapcase is a fake name Carlill uses for live solo shows.
films that Mellin owned. They selected Three On A Match, from the Bette Davis
movie of that name
, as the name of the album. Since there were three main characters associated with the superstition that was central to the movie’s plot, Carlill and Mellin decided they needed a third contributor. Carlill recruited singer and songwriter King Toad.
The album contains thirteen songs, all with their titles and inspiration from Bette Davis
’ filmography. The genre is categorized as alt/folk and acoustic pop with each of the members having written a set of songs for the album.
The CD for Three on a Match was released on Stereorrific Recordings on May 26, 2011 at the Gulu Gulu Café in Salem, Massachusetts
. The limited-edition CD designed by Mellin is packaged in a film canister-like container that houses the CD, a twenty eight page booklet, and a set of “imagined movie stills” starring Niki Luparelli photographed by John Soares, and liner notes by Garrett Caples
. The album was also released as custom Three On A Match matchboxes containing download codes. To commemorate Bette Davis
’ 103rd birthday, the album was pre-released via download on April 5, 2011. A music video by Mellin and Soares for one of Mellin’s tracks, Dark Victory, also starring Luparelli, was selected for Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.
About writing the songs for the project Carlill said, “I really tried to evoke the themes and characters, and to echo how the films make me feel. Bette Davis has such an amazing screen presence, it feels very natural to write through her performances.”
, Captain Beefheart
, Max Ernst
, the DaDaists, Kurt Schwitters
, Alfred Jarry
, Hannah Höch
, and Georges Perec
.
Concerning his writing lyrics, he has stated in one 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. It can be a little puzzling but there is a narrative but not in the literal sense we are used to... You have to absorb and translate..."; and in another, "...you have to make the words count, but the order in which you put them is the really fun time. It's all code, puzzles, concentrated meaning. It has a surreal coloring but it's much less random than you'd expect."
About how his writing style has changed over the years, he has said, “...I began with a much more structured style of writing that fit the conventional pop song structure, I think within that structure you can create puzzles and language is a beautiful instrument to manipulate in this way. I have tried to move into more abstract , DADA territory with some of the later work, the meaning becomes coded like hypertext. The narrative is back to front or a zig-zag pattern of small movies. Tone Poet is a balance that can be achieved between narrative and nonsense, they’re interchangeable and I really have no idea sometimes what is going to happen until I sing, it’s instinctive mostly but occasionally the words are written down randomly and call to you in a sequence that fits."
Singles
Singles
Single
Singles
On Compilation
Ripon
Ripon is a cathedral city, market town and successor parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located at the confluence of two streams of the River Ure in the form of the Laver and Skell. The city is noted for its main feature the Ripon Cathedral which is architecturally...
, England
England
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March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental
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....
and alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
bands including 1990s UK acts 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:...
and Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
, and more recently with bands and collaborations including Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, Chicanery
Chicanery
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...
, and Three On A Match. His lyrics reflect the influence of DaDa
DaDa
DaDa is the 15th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983. DaDa would be Cooper's last album until his sober re-emergence in 1986 with the album Constrictor...
and 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...
, and his voice has a unique, multifaceted, "strangely alluring" character.
Carlill founded 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:...
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...
in 1993, and joined the British supergroup Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
in 1998. Both groups charted in the UK, with Lodger's
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
single, I’m Leaving, charting in the top 40. Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
disbanded after one album, 1998's A Walk in the Park. 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:...
, having released three critically acclaimed albums, broke up in late 2002.
During the late 1990s, Carlill also contributed to 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...
, a side project of 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...
members Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...
and 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...
.
Having relocated to the United States in 2000, Neil Carlill temporarily slowed his musical output until, in 2004, he resumed working 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...
, this time on the eponymous debut album from the project titled Chicanery
Chicanery
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...
. During this period he also founded the bands Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, and Three On A Match through collaborations with numerous musicians in the U.S. and Europe
Europe
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.
He has also developed a solo project dubbed Airport Studies, and performs live under the pseudonym Harvey Mapcase. As Airport Studies, Carlill contributed a song for the Fire Records
Fire Records (UK)
Fire Records is an independent record label in London, England. The label was founded by Clive Solomon in 1986 and is currently run by James Nicholls.-Current roster:*Giant Sand*Guided By Voices*Howe Gelb*Josephine Foster*Wooden Wand*Bobby Conn...
James Joyce Tribute album , Chamber Music (James Joyce). Under his own name Carlill was a featured vocalist on Lost-Wax (2008 Plush) by Lena and the Floating Roots Orchestra. Some of Neil Carlill’s written work was also published in 2007 in Galleon (Volume 1, Number 1), a literary journal that features adventurous short fiction.
Delicatessen
DelicatessenDelicatessen (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:...
was formed by Neil Carlill (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Craig Bown (guitar, flute), Pete Capewell (bass) and Stuart Dayman (drums), taking their moniker from the 1991 French film
Delicatessen (film)
Delicatessen is a 1991 French black comedy film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the tenants of the building and their desperate...
. They started 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...
in 1993 and while playing shows in London
London
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they were spotted by manager Tony Beard, and soon started to garner support from the Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
and much of the UK music press. After signing to Starfish Records, the Indie offshoot of Jazz Summers' Big Life Publishing
Big Life
Big Life was a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry. It featured hundreds of releases from artists such as The Orb, Stare, Yazz, Junior Reid, Coldcut, and De La Soul....
, their debut single Inviting Both Sisters Out To Dinner was released in October 1994, followed by the single C.F. Kane in April 1995. In a Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
review of C.F. Kane, the reviewer placed 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:...
in the class of bands that were “influenced by good books or good films, rather than just their late-Sixties record collections.” Subsequently, their single, I'm Just Alive charted. 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:...
also created the soundtrack to the Independent short film George and Ramona (starring Emily Dux and Gary Lydon, written by David Hill and Mika Kallwass) that was released in 1995.
The first album, Skin Touching Water, was released to stellar reviews in May 1995. Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
called the band "The salvation of pop music". Early in 1995, bassist Pete Capewell left and was replaced by the multi-instrumentalist Will Foster
Will Foster
Will Foster is the keyboardist for the English rock band The Tears.Previously, he played with UK art rock band Delicatessen before forming Lodger - alongside Delicatessen singer Neil Carlill, Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey, and Goffey's wife Pearl Lowe....
. That summer saw 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:...
headlining the 3rd stage at Reading Festival, and the addition of Jonny Wood on keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, and violin. With their live band complete, they toured in Holland, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and were featured at the Phoenix Festival
Phoenix Festival
The Phoenix Festival was set up by Vince Power of the Mean Fiddler Music Group in 1993 as an alternative to the established Glastonbury and Reading Festivals...
in 1995. The second album Hustle Into Bed, characterized as a darker, more orchestral work, was issued in 1996, produced by long time Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
and The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party (band)
The Birthday Party were an Australian rock band, active from 1973 to 1983.Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career...
producer/engineer Tony Cohen
Tony Cohen
Tony Cohen is an acclaimed Australian record producer and sound engineer based in Melbourne, best known for his work with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the 1980s...
. After a great deal more touring there was a brief hiatus in which the Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
'supergroup'
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
came about, and then 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:...
reappeared in early 1998 with a new label, Viper Records
The Viper Label
The Viper Label is an independent record label from Liverpool, England and was founded in 1999 by Paul Hemmings and Mike Badger who were key figures in the Liverpool music scene; both ex members of the La's and The Onset. Hemmings also played with Ian Broudie in The Lightning Seeds...
, and a third album, There's No Confusing Some People. Carlill and Foster
Will Foster
Will Foster is the keyboardist for the English rock band The Tears.Previously, he played with UK art rock band Delicatessen before forming Lodger - alongside Delicatessen singer Neil Carlill, Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey, and Goffey's wife Pearl Lowe....
then continued with the Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
project for the rest of 1998. Following Lodger's
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
split, Carlill emigrated to the US, and despite attempts by him, Bown, and Dayman to keep recording, 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:...
finally called it quits late in 2002.
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:...
recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, both in 1995. The first was a four track studio session and the second six tracks recorded at the Reading Festival.
Lodger
After the completion of Delicatessen'sDelicatessen (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:...
second album, Neil Carlill and Will Foster
Will Foster
Will Foster is the keyboardist for the English rock band The Tears.Previously, he played with UK art rock band Delicatessen before forming Lodger - alongside Delicatessen singer Neil Carlill, Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey, and Goffey's wife Pearl Lowe....
joined forces with Pearl Lowe
Pearl Lowe
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, who had fronted the Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
band Powder
Powder (band)
Powder were a Britpop band, who existed between 1994 and 1997, and released three singles on Parkway Records. Signed in late 1994 by music public relations agents John Best and Phill Savidge, they were the first band on the label. Powder were fronted by Pearl Lowe, with songwriters Mark Thomas on...
, and Danny Goffey
Danny Goffey
Daniel Robert Goffey Daniel Robert Goffey Daniel Robert Goffey (born 7 February 1974 in Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the English Britpop band, Supergrass...
of Supergrass
Supergrass
Supergrass was an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consisted of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey ....
to form one of the most noteworthy of Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
superbands
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
, Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
.
Signed to Island Records
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...
, Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
released a 3 track single in 1997. Its a-side, I'm Leaving, received heavy radio exposure nationally, and the single entered the UK pop charts in the top 40. Sometime thereafter came the album A Walk in the Park. From that album, Always Round Here and Small Change also charted. The videos produced for I'm Leaving and the subsequent singles were highly praised in the media for their humor and originality. It is for these same qualities that Lodger's
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
A Walk in the Park is considered an important release for 1990's British music.
Lodger
Lodger (British band)
Lodger were a British indie rock supergroup containing members of Powder, Supergrass, and Delicatessen. They released three singles and an album in 1998 before the members went on to different projects.-History:...
toured the UK in 1998 and played at that summer's Reading Festival.
Vedette
Vedette began life in Los AngelesLos 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 the end of the Chicanery
Chicanery
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...
recordings, during which Neil made the acquaintance of electronic artist Manuel Stagars. The pair conceived an album of bizarre musical sketches derived from ambient recordings of Stagars, which were cut to song length with Carlill adding inspired vocal concoctions laced with surrealist touches and evocatively weird lyrics. 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...
also contributed his singular guitar stylings to several tracks, and Carlill played ukulele and keyboards on select songs.
Vedette's self-titled debut album was released on the Stilll label(Belgium) in 2007.
Janek Siegele (Jayrope) joined Vedette in 2008 for a series of concerts in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
which culminated in an appearance at the Donau Musical Festival
Donaufestival
The Donaufestival is an annual festival of music and performance that takes place each April in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. In the early years of the festival, two towns were used as locations - Krems and Korneuburg...
in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
.
More European shows followed in 2009 with the highlight being their talked-about performance at the Klangbad Festival in Scheer Germany, with the paired-down line-up of Carlill and Siegele. Recording of the second album is in progress.
5 Little Elephants
Carlill teamed up with French musician Charles-Eric Charrier for two albums recorded in 2007 and 2009.The first album is a collection of voice, percussion and noise utilizing acoustic guitar to produce an otherworldly collection of folk abstraction.
The second album is one forty seven minute song, featuring an epic narrative written and sung by Carlill.
5 Little Elephants' music has been referred to as unconventional hybrid pop with an intimate and beautiful mature, poetic scope. Both albums are being prepared for release.
Shoosh
In 2007, Neil Carlill joined Ed Drury (guitars) and Craig Murphy (synthesizers) to become the third member of Shoosh. Drury and Murphy were impressed with both Carlill's lyric writing style and his vocal delivery. The project pairs folk influenced ambient music with Carlill's Dadaist lyrics and his "unique, other-worldly vocal style."Shoosh contributed two tracks to a split album with another group, Cheju, in November 2007. The album, titled Cheju & Shoosh was released on the Awkward Silence
Awkward Silence Recordings
Awkward Silence Recordings is an independent record label located in Staplehurst, Kent, England. It has released EPs for artists including Isan, Arovane, Part Chimp, Tarentel, Papa M and Nautilis.- EPs and formats :...
label with a limited edition run of 300 CDs. Subsequently, the three released the album Orphem Circuit in 2008. An Igloo Magazine review described that album as "a sweltering sheet of low flying beauty," and an "Is This Music?" review explained the music as, "Soundscapes of uncomfortable beauty Pulses Dadaist in theory and practice..."
Chicanery
The history of ChicaneryChicanery
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...
extends back to the late 1990s in London, England.
During his long stint 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...
, 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...
conceived a side project called 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 bandmate Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...
. The duo were searching for a lead vocalist to front the endeavor when, while working in the studio, they heard the voice of Neil Carlill, 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:...
, emanating from the television, on which one of that band's music videos was being broadcast. 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 through the group’s record label, and invited him to record with them at the studio.
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...
was not commercially released at that time, but that meeting marked the beginning of a long-standing and currently active collaboration between Neil and Warren
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...
.
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 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 time 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 reestablished contact with Carlill and exchanged with him demos of their latest music. With each deriving great inspiration from the other's work, and seeing the potential for a brilliant album, the two men met up in LA
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...
for the sessions that would result in 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...
, the album.
The bulk of the tracks on the debut album were cut in Los Angeles' Red Rum Studios in 2005, while some of the music was done back 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...
. A portion of the material 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 recorded with 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...
back in 1998 was used on one track, Cut Me from the Mirror. Often, tracks would be recorded at respective home studios and conveyed to 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...
, before moving on to yet another, larger studio for post-recording and mixing to perfect the finished product. 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...
, an energetic, diverse and somewhat genre-busting collection of Avant Guard pop tunes, was released May 11, 2010.
Carlill credits this period with the advent of some of his finest songwriting efforts to date, which are evidenced 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...
tracks Midnight Owls, Hit the Wall, IOD, and Luminal Dark.
Me Me the Moth
This project is a collaboration between Carlill and musician/artist Marcelo Radulovich, who had previously worked with David JDavid J
David John Haskins , better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets....
and Mike Keneally
Mike Keneally
Michael Joseph Keneally is an American guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer. Allmusic says: "With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation, Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era."Born on Long Island, New York, he...
among others. Their self-produced debut album The Weirding Valley contains fourteen songs constructed at long distance via the internet. Again, with tracks recorded by Neil in Salem, MA, and Marcelo in Cardiff, CA, the process involved the exchanging of sound files, which were subsequently united at Radulovich's home studio.
Taking inspiration from the best of the Fluxus movement
Fluxus
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
, The Weirding Valley is described as a tapestry woven of DADA-esque sensibilities. Shades of Wire, Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.Père Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné...
and 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...
are apparent.
The album was released in May 2010.
Four videos were made by Radulovich for the songs The Red Radio, Hounds Are Sleepy, In the Air Blind and the album's title track The Weirding Valley.
Airport Studies and Harvey Mapcase
Carlill used the name Airport Studies for his track on theFire Records
Fire Records (UK)
Fire Records is an independent record label in London, England. The label was founded by Clive Solomon in 1986 and is currently run by James Nicholls.-Current roster:*Giant Sand*Guided By Voices*Howe Gelb*Josephine Foster*Wooden Wand*Bobby Conn...
James Joyce tribute album Chamber Music (James Joyce) in 2008. The tribute album draws upon 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...
's collection of poems titled Chamber Music
Chamber Music (book)
Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Matthews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication .-Summary:Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine...
, and sets all thirty six poems to music. Carlill selected Poem XI for his contribution and explained, "When I was asked to contribute to the Chamber Music album for Fire Records I was immediately drawn to Poem XI. The sexual conquest of a virgin is suggested in a bygone language of an earlier era that romantically evades the real facts of the matter. I tried to make the music slither a little, to pretend to sleaze but to support the almost polite nature of lines such as "Happy love has come to woo"." The track was produced by Janek Siegele (Jayrope).
Harvey Mapcase is a fake name Carlill uses for live solo shows.
Three On A Match
Three On A Match is a songwriting project by Carlill, Jeff Mellin, and Jamal River, who uses the name King Toad. Having met in 1995, Carlill and Mellin shared an appreciation of old Hollywood movies and discussed collaborating on a project. The idea for their album came from a box set of Bette DavisBette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
films that Mellin owned. They selected Three On A Match, from the Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
movie of that name
Three on a Match
Three on a Match is a Warner Bros. drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis. The film also features Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart , Allen Jenkins and Edward Arnold.-Plot:Three friends from childhood, Mary , Ruth , and Vivian , meet...
, as the name of the album. Since there were three main characters associated with the superstition that was central to the movie’s plot, Carlill and Mellin decided they needed a third contributor. Carlill recruited singer and songwriter King Toad.
The album contains thirteen songs, all with their titles and inspiration from Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
’ filmography. The genre is categorized as alt/folk and acoustic pop with each of the members having written a set of songs for the album.
The CD for Three on a Match was released on Stereorrific Recordings on May 26, 2011 at the Gulu Gulu Café in Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...
. The limited-edition CD designed by Mellin is packaged in a film canister-like container that houses the CD, a twenty eight page booklet, and a set of “imagined movie stills” starring Niki Luparelli photographed by John Soares, and liner notes by Garrett Caples
Garrett Caples
Garrett Caples is an American poet. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1972, he currently lives in Oakland. An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight...
. The album was also released as custom Three On A Match matchboxes containing download codes. To commemorate Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
’ 103rd birthday, the album was pre-released via download on April 5, 2011. A music video by Mellin and Soares for one of Mellin’s tracks, Dark Victory, also starring Luparelli, was selected for Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.
About writing the songs for the project Carlill said, “I really tried to evoke the themes and characters, and to echo how the films make me feel. Bette Davis has such an amazing screen presence, it feels very natural to write through her performances.”
Influences and artistic development
Neil Carlill is inspired by James JoyceJames 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....
, Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.-Biography:...
, 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 one 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. It can be a little puzzling but there is a narrative but not in the literal sense we are used to... You have to absorb and translate..."; and in another, "...you have to make the words count, but the order in which you put them is the really fun time. It's all code, puzzles, concentrated meaning. It has a surreal coloring but it's much less random than you'd expect."
About how his writing style has changed over the years, he has said, “...I began with a much more structured style of writing that fit the conventional pop song structure, I think within that structure you can create puzzles and language is a beautiful instrument to manipulate in this way. I have tried to move into more abstract , DADA territory with some of the later work, the meaning becomes coded like hypertext. The narrative is back to front or a zig-zag pattern of small movies. Tone Poet is a balance that can be achieved between narrative and nonsense, they’re interchangeable and I really have no idea sometimes what is going to happen until I sing, it’s instinctive mostly but occasionally the words are written down randomly and call to you in a sequence that fits."
Delicatessen
Albums- Skin Touching Water (1995, Starfish)
- Hustle Into Bed (1996, Starfish)
- There's No Confusing Some People (1998, Viper)
Singles
- Inviting Both Sisters To Dinner (1994 Starfish)
- C.F. Kane (1995 Starfish)
- I'm Just Alive (1995 Starfish)
- Monkey Suit (1996 Starfish)
Lodger
Album- A Walk in the Park (1998 Island Records)
Singles
- I'm Leaving (1997 Island Records)
- Always Round Here (1997 Island Records)
- Small Change e.p. (1997 Island Records)
Shoosh
Album- Orpheum Circuit (2008 Herb Recordings)
Single
- Split single Cheju/Shoosh (2008 Awkward Silence)
Chicanery
Album- ChicaneryChicanery (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...
(2010)
Singles
- Hubert Selby Song (2010)
- Gold Pavilions (2010)
Airport Studies
AlbumOn Compilation
- XI Chamber Music: James Joyce (2008 Fire Records)
Three On A Match
- Burnt Offerings: A Preview of Three On A Match (2011 independent)
- Three On A Match (2011 Steroerrific Recordings)
Delicatessen
- George and Ramona soundtrack to the short film (1995 independent)
- C.F. Kane (Skin Touching Water - 1995 Starfish)
- I'm Just Alive (Skin Touching Water - 1995 Starfish)
- Chomsky (Skin Touching Water - 1995 Starfish)
- Buy A Chance To Breathe (Hustle Into Bed 1996 Starfish)
- Vanilla Folders (Hustle Into Bed - 1996 Starfish)
- Monkey Suit (Hustle Into Bed - 1996 Starfish)
Lodger
- Small Change (A Walk in the Park 1998 Island Records)
- I’m Leaving (A Walk in the Park 1998 Island Records)
- Always Round Here (A Walk in the Park 1998 Island Records)
Shoosh
- Elastic Soil by Marcin Czajka (Myppa)
- Snake Eyes
- Come In From The Cold
- Pestilence
Me Me the Moth
- The Weirding Valley [HQ] (2008)
- The Red Radio (2008)
- In the Air Blind (2008)
- Hounds are Sleepy (2008)
External links
- Neil Carlill's myspace site
- Neil Carlill's official site
- Delicatessen's official website
- Lodger facebook site
- Vedette myspace site
- Shoosh myspace site
- 5 Little Elephants myspace site
- Chicanery official site
- Me Me The Moth's official site
- AIRPORT STUDIES myspace site
- Chamber Music James Joyce myspace site
- Three On A Match's official site