Modern Silent Cinema

Modern Silent Cinema makes lo-fi electro-acoustic experimental instrumental guitar and piano music, composed and performed by Cullen Gallagher.

"Tingling and tapping, Modern Silent Cinema elicits strange sounds, changing from simple rhythms to contemplative feelings, from melancholic, ostinato plonking to tinny clangs, unafraid of dissonance, Ross Bolleter sounds, ghostly glitches, or whirring interference. But with two handed catchy melodies, these homemade DIY sounds consciously play with the charm of the imperfect, the all too human."–Bad Alchemy

"Cullen Gallagher is a tremendous and unique scoring talent. He works like a master prose writer that surpasses narrative for that deeper cut."—Mitch LeMay, KFJC 89.7FM

"Between avant-garde and neo-classical...always searching for sounds and motifs that can be found outside the beaten tracks, sometimes pushing the piano off a cliff as it were, and capture its final notes before it gives out completely. He can be gentle as well, serving up incidental music a la Zbigniew Preisner or Erik Satie."—Hans Werksman, Here Comes the Flood

"The perfect lo-fi rainy day disc."–Arcane Candy

"Beautiful sounds, both raw and polished... There is a feeling this is a lost Fahey or Basho recording."–Lost in a Sea of Sound

"Reverberates, resonates and shakes to a range of psychedelic, post-rock, krautrock, scuzz and fuzz influences across a myriad of soundtrack-like instrumentals."–Monolith Cocktail

"From quiet, forlorn electric guitar and bass duets to solo heavy electric guitar riffs. From bluesy workouts to distorted yet melodic songs that strongly recall the likes of Roy Montgomery."–Arcane Candy