WARREN CUCCURULLO - THE RETURN OF THE ROSE VORTEX

• Warren Cuccurullo: Return Of The Rose Vortex
      (2026, download / streaming, --, digital music platforms)

After having released "Synthia" and "Synthia Vol.II" in December, Warren Cuccurullo is already back with "Return Of The Rose Vortex", a fine album that features Azar Lawrence (!!) on the saxophone.
Plus Tommy Mars !!

For a glimpse of Azar's career, take a look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azar_Lawrence

Warren on synth soundscapes with Tommy Mars and Azar adding beautiful lines and phrases.
This is great.

-- info & more: Harald Haering

WARREN CUCCURULLO

Last month, Warren Cuccurullo released two new albums: "Synthia" and "Synthia Vol. II".
Download / streaming only.

• Warren Cuccurullo: Synthia
      (2025, download/streaming, --, digital music platforms)

• Warren Cuccurullo: Synthia Vol. II
      (2025, download/streaming, --, digital music platforms)

Instrumental electronic, synthesizer pieces.
Contemporary classical music.

You can check them out at:
https://warrencuccurullo.com/discography/solo-collaborations/

-- info: Harald Haering

WARREN CUCCURULLO & DURAN DURAN

Warren Cuccurullo fans might want to know that there is 'radio show' album out called "The Crystal Ship".
Radio broadcast of the 1993 South African concert during their world tour.
(with Warren on acoustic guitar?)

--  info: Harald Häring

WARREN CUCCURULLO - 4U

Music by Warren Cuccurullo
From the album 'Missing Person'

Film directed by Judith Jerome
Produced by Warren Cuccurullo, Heide Fliegner, Jean Renard and LightTouchDreams Studios

Everyone in this video has a name. Everyone in this video has a story. We are grateful that they shared their lives with us.

Since we began this project, the crisis has only gotten worse and not just here in the City of Angels, but everywhere. The solutions are complex and require more than just relocation. We are failing our veterans and those most vulnerable, while the people who can help (mostly volunteers) are all too often ignored or cast aside in favor of political bumper sticker solutions and grandiose plans that are ill conceived, expensive and will fail.

We must do better.

 

WARREN CUCCURULLO

While touring South Africa back in April 1993, Duran Duran agreed to let a radio station record their set at Momentum Arena in Pretoria. This album serves up the audio from that broadcast - a riotous, typically grandiose rush through some of their greatest hits and best-loved moments.

'Radio show' album.

WARREN CUCCURULLO & DURAN DURAN

Duran Duran has just released "Ultra Chrome, Latex & Steel Tour"
As a limited edition 2LP set on yellow & purple vinyl,
and even as a limited edition 2 CD set that's being offered as a purple & yellow vinyl replica CD.

This double CD or double LP set contains the BIG BANG radio concert recorded at Disney World, Lake Buena Vista on 27 November 1997.

Simon Le Bon, Warren Cuccurullo & Nick Rhodes were back for the "Ultra Chrome, Latex and Steel Tour..." with new songs like "Out Of My Mind" or "Electric Barbarella" and old songs like "Ordinary World", "A View To A Kill" or "Rio".

-- info: Harald Häring

 

WARREN CUCCURULLO RELEASE FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2023

TV Mania = Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo
"Bored Of Prozac And The Internet"
LP
Limited to 1500 copies.

Bored with Prozac and the Internet? is an experimental / electronic-based album originally released in 2013 by TV Mania. The album was recorded from 1995 to 1996 by TV Mania members Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo as a side project of their full-time band, Duran Duran. The recordings remained unreleased for some 17 years after having been presumed lost. The chance discovery of the album master tapes by Rhodes led to the set's 2013 release.

 

WARREN CUCCURULLO & JOE TRAVERS

Warren Cuccurullo and Joe Travers were both part of Duran Duran in 2001. 

Here's the final concert they did with the band.

-- info: Harald Häring

WARREN CUCCURULLO

Warren Cuccurullo has just released 'Creature Feature' from his upcoming (2024) "Synthia Vol.1" album.

MOJO MUSIC BUYS THE WARREN CUCCURULLO CATALOGUE

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/mojo-music-media-buys-several-catalogs-including-hits-recorded-by-duran-duran-and-jennifer-lopez/

 
Warren Cuccurullo, a songwriter and guitarist, got his start with Frank Zappa, co-founded New Wave rock band Missing Persons with Dale and Terry Bozzio, and later joined Duran Duran.

Mojo says it has acquired his complete songwriter and publishing rights, along with artist royalties and neighboring rights.

The catalog reflects the entirety of Missing Persons’ ‘80s pop hits Words and Destination Unknown as well as breakout single Mental Hopscotch, Give and club hit I Can’t Think About Dancin.

In addition to the catalog acquisition, Mojo also signed a future deal to manage and promote Cuccurullo’s solo work.

-- info: Harald Häring

 

TV MANIA - BORED WITH PROZAC AND THE INTERNET?

• tv mania: bored with prozac and the internet?
      (2022, cd, germany, bmg / tape modern)

TV Mania featured Warren Cuccurullo (who was in Zappa's band and later in Duran Duran) and Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran).

The duo released "Bored With Prozac..." in 2013, both as a digital download and on as a 2 LP set.
Ignoring the unofficial CD and CDR releases that were produced, the album has been released on CD for the first time earlier this year.

Next to the "Bored With Prozac..." album, Tape Modern did release a 7-track remix EP CD in 2013. Different mixes / versions of three tracks that had been previously released on "Bored With Prozac...".

This album and the remix EP are completely different from Warren's solo stuff.
Check it out before you run to the shop...

TV MANIA

TV Mania was a project by Nick Rhodes and (former Zappa guitar player) Warren Cuccurullo.

They released "Bored with Prozak and the Internet?" in 2013 as a download-only album although a remix EP with different remixes of three tracks got released as a CD EP.

Anyway, "Bored with..." is being made available on CD by BMG.
Excellent news.

-- info: Harald Häring

WARREN CUCCURULLO - WATERMELON IN EASTER HAY

Watermelon in Easter Hay
written by Frank Zappa
performed by Warren Cuccurullo / Duran Duran 1994 Radio City Music Hall
shot by David Ditkowich

direct sound board audio mixed by Davey Moire
posted on YouTube by Warren Cuccurullo in 2019

-- info: Harald H.

 

MISSING PERSONS BOX SET

The  Rubellan Remasters record label is re-releasing the three Missing Persons albums.
With bonus tracks.

Also available in a limited edition (500 copies) box set.
https://www.rubellanremasters.com/online-store/Missing-Persons-The-Album-Collection-3-CDs-Box-p275577807

ROB CUCCURULLO - BY WAY OF CANARSIE

• by way of canarsie
  by rob cuccurullo
      (2019, book, usa, private release)

Rob is Warren Cuccurullo's brother.
Warren was part of Frank Zappa's band, co-founded Missing Persons and eventually even played guitar in Duran Duran.
As Rob's book is about living in Brooklyn with the family, parts of this book are about Warren and also about Frank Zappa's visits to the Cuccurullo's.
Too bad Rob didn't include the pictures of Zappa's visit that he showed on facebook.
Still, nice reading, spectacular story and glad it turned out fine with Rob (getting addicted, serving in the army, being arrested,...).

I got my copy from Amazon.

WARREN CUCCURULLO HAS A NEW EP OUT

Warren Cuccurullo has released an EP through Soundcloud.
Sounds pretty good.
I'd be happy to buy/download this. Let's hope it will be made available on Bandcamp as well.

ROB CUCCURULLO

Warren Cuccurullo's brother, Robert, wrote a book that includes a part where Frank Zappa visited the house.

https://www.bywayofcanarsie.com/
(Check out the "More" section for some nice pictures)

Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, and Kobo.

While growing up in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York during the ‘70s and ‘80s, Robert and his siblings had to endure their father’s violent temper. Robert’s brother Warren found solace in music, first joining Frank Zappa’s band, then co-founding the group Missing Persons, and eventually becoming the lead guitarist for Duran Duran. Following an encounter with a violent sociopath and witnessing a mob murder, Robert became a heavy drug user by the age of sixteen. By his twenties, with his cocaine use spiraling out of control, he got involved with associates of the Lucchese Crime Family and found himself the target of a corrupt police detective. Desperately seeking to escape the neighborhood, Robert volunteered to serve in Operation Desert Storm, where he witnessed death and destruction on an unimaginable scale. Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress, his drug woes continued as he experienced one life-changing event after another. Following a felony arrest and facing eight years in prison, Robert was forced to confront his demons.

ZAPPANALE #29 FLASHBACKS - - - THE EXPO

Thurssay afternoon had kicked off with a short visit to the expo, housed next to the Arf Office, in the center of Bad Doberan.
This year's expo focussed on The Zappa Power Trio (Warren Cuccurullo, Terry Bozzio, Patrick O'Hearn), a painting exhibit (by artist Olaf Rösler), and a picture exhibit (by photographer Bill Gubbins).

The above picture shows the cover of the exhibition guide, taken from a painting by Olaf Rösler.

The Zappa Power Trio part of the expo showed lots of records. Not just the albums that they made with Frank Zappa, but also lots (LOTS !!) of other albums that Warren, Terry and/or Patrick appeared on. And not just some Missing Persons stuff. Very impressive. Plus some pictures, lists of their discographies, The DW Black Page Zappa Snare Drum, an 18+ section that showed Warren on video, and more.

The second part of the exhibit showed various paintings by Olaf Rösler. I liked the Superman/Freak Out one (pictured on the cover of the exhibition guide), but his other works didn't impress me that much.

Part three of the expo, however, was something I hadn't expected.
Photographer Bill Gubbins had been present during Frank Zappa's Hot Rats sessions. The expo gave a sneak preview of Bill's exclusive photos that will be part of a planned book celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Hot Rats".
Reprints of some of the pictures were made available in different formats but in a very limited run.
My favorite one was taken at the August 10, 1969 concert at Warrensville Heights, showing Don, Jimmy, Art, Roy, Motorhead, Bunk, Ian, Buzz and FZ. Do I need to tell you that I bought a copy?

WARREN CUCCURULLO

The Warren Cuccurullo - Patrick O'Hearn - Terry Bozzio gig at Zappanale was one to remember.
Musical highlights combined with missed cues, gear problems and musicians that got mad at each other...

Read the interview that Andrew did with WC (before the show) :
http://idiotbastard.com/Interviews/WarrenCuccurullo2.htm

ZAPPANALE NEWSFLASH

The Power Trio Terry Bozzio, Patrick O' Hearn and Warren Cuccurullo will travel already one week earlier to Bad Doberan and will start with additional rehearsals for their very special program.

On top, Denny Walley will jump in will upgrade the trio to a quartet.

And we are already keen to announce L. Shankar as a new delight at Zappanale! We’ve got a verbal agreement from the management yesterday and want to share this news with you first. Shankar will support the power trio.