What is chicanery?

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Warren Cuccurullo - Return To Music
... effort with vocalist Neil Carlill, Chicanery, on May 11, 2010 ... a few years earlier, the album, also titled Chicanery, was released on CD and digital media through dPulse Recordings ... joined Cuccurullo and Carlill for selected sessions on the Chicanery album included among others, Terry Bozzio, Joe Travers, sarangi virtuoso Ustad Sultan Khan, and producer Simone ...