Welcome to the official site of

Chieli Minucci & Special EFX!

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LATEST UPDATE  7/16

- concerts added

- new online CDs available

'Sweet Surrender',

is available

for online purchase,

as well as

individual song digital downloads!

click on this link:

Music Downloads

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Chieli has won the 2008 Emmy Award
(his 3rd) for Music Composition for a Daytime Drama
for his composing/producing work on CBS Guiding Light

click here:    Emmy Awards video playback

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new online CD

'Travels'

now available on our

digital downloads link!

click here

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other new 2008 releases!

Solo, Duos, and Trios

Raspberry n' Cream

Drippings

Pop Today

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Watch the high-def video performance of the
Omar Hakim Project song
'Listen Up'
Omar Hakim - drums
Jerry Brooks - bass
Chieli - guitar
Scott Tibbs - keys
Gregoire Maret - harmonica

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also

please visit

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Special EFX

live concert DVD
click here

We're happy to announce the official release of

our first live concert high definition-DVD!

In our 22nd year of recording & touring

we've finally captured the full 6-piece Special EFX live

concert show experience,

in enhanced high-definition DVD format.

This DVD is now available.

purchase by

clicking here

      Music Downloads    

The music download link is up and running!  You can sample, and purchase, all the songs from classic CDs such as Modern Manners, Slice of Life, Mystique, Peace of the World, Just Like Magic, Renaissance, Jewels, Play, Catwalk, as well as the most recent releases!  

 (all the Special EFX CDs & all the       Chieli Minucci solo CDs!!)                                                                                                                 latest solo CD available!     

   Just click on this link:

     Music Downloads

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         This site is all about listening to music.....There are tons of free audio clips, as well as info from ALL the CDs since 1984, both full group & solo. You'll find the complete live concert histories, biographical information, as well as regularly updated discography info.  There is a page link containing concert schedules, photos, and audio & video clips of live performances from over the years.        All Special EFX and Chieli Minucci CDs are on the site, with 3 audio clip samples from each.  Check out the new Chieli Minucci & Special EFX CD, Sweet Surrender, or the most recent Special EFX DVD release, entitled A Night With Chieli Minucci & Special EFX .  Most of the older Special EFX CDs are long out of print, so the best way to get hold of them is directly through this website, as individual song 'downloads'.

     You'll find a music production page, as well, where hundreds of additional audio clips can be heard,  in many varied musical styles, spotlighting all kinds of outside music projects Chieli's been involved in....individual cues from CBS’s Guiding Light, to sports production music, to news program themes, to ‘production library’ music cues.....it's all here!    

     You'll find a photograph page, frozen moments in time of the band, press shots, friends, family shots, fun shots, etc.....  This page will be updated from time to time with newer concert photos, as well as some surprises.....

        You'll find complete biographical updates, the entire live concert history of Special EFX, with a listing of all the amazing musicians who performed with myself and George Jinda.   There was a brief tour, during 1996, in which I didn't participate, since I was on tour supporting my first solo release, ‘Jewels’.   After that year, George fell ill, and didn't tour with the band any longer.   Sadly, he eventually succumbed to his long illness, and since then the Special EFX band and Chieli Minucci band have come together, as one.  The band is still touring regularly as you read these pages.......  Enjoy the site!

Listening Room

Chieli has a collection of some very special guitars! 

Click here to see them....