Brooklyn, NY based musician Cullen Gallagher is on the fence between avant-garde and neo-classical on his new album Passages XXII–XXXII (for Solo Piano). His one-man project Modern Silent Cinema originated as an outlet for his soundtrack music for films that never got made (with a few exceptions that actually made it to the screen).
He is always searching for sounds and motifs that can be found outside the beaten tracks, sometimes pushing the piano off a cliff as it where, and capture its final notes before it gives out completely (Passage XXVI). He can be gentle as well, serving up incidental music a la Zbigniew Preisner or Erik Satie (Passage XXIX). As a guitarist Gallagher's love for post-rock and jazz can be found in the rougher vignets (Passage XXIII).
