Brooklyn, NY based musician Cullen Gallagher used footage from the 1900 Gaumont film Serpentine Dance featuring dancer Paola Werther to create a video for Passage XXIV, a track from Passages XXII–XXXII (for Solo Piano), the new album by his one-man project Modern Silent Cinema: "Channeling the modus operandi of film making, the album peruses both gentle segues and hard cuts to move the album forward".
HCTF review of Passages XXII–XXXII (for Solo Piano)
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).
