Hammitt (2024)

Modern Silent Cinema - Hammitt
release date December 15, 2024 by Bad Channels Records (BCR-012)

1. The Mystery Writer (Vocal Theme)
2. The Plot Thickens
3. Sunsetwindowreverie
4. The Raven
5. The Continental Op
6. Eventide
7. The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)
8. The Age of Cinema

This album is the soundtrack to Matt Barry's experimental feature film, Hammitt (2024), about an independent filmmaker who travels to Baltimore to interview the reclusive author Charles David Hammitt about celebrated crime novelist Dashiell Hammett, but when Hammitt goes missing, the filmmaker realizes he might have been chasing the wrong mystery the whole time.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Cullen Gallagher.
Tracks 1–7 from Hammitt. Track 8 from The Age of Cinema (2022, Matt Barry).
Mastered by Caleb Mulkerin at Tank 28.
Released by Bad Channels Records December 2024 (BCR-012).
Copyright 2024.

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Reviews:

"[A] lo-fi sound that reminds us of The Velvet Underground... 'The Raven' features beautiful piano playing that makes it feel as if the listener is standing in the living room and the ambient sounds play a cinematic role... Closing track 'The Age of Cinema' shows mysterious and vast landscapes with Ry Cooder's fantastic soundtrack Paris, Texas never far away."–Bert Geurts, Luminous Dash

"I like the sound of this. It’s very lo-fi and mostly made up of guitars, and it feels contemplative and melancholy."–Helmynth, KFJC 88.7 FM (Los Altos Hills, CA)

Radio:
March 13, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on Jimmy Skelter (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
March 7, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)" on Mitch LeMay (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
March 6, 2025 - "Eventide" on Jimmy Skelter (KFLC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
March 5, 2025 - "The Continental Op" on Brain Damage (KFLC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
March 5, 2025 -"Sunsetwindowreverie" on Colonel Kurtz (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 28, 2025 - "The Raven" on Grawer (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 27, 2025 - "Eventide" on Jimmy Skelter (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 23, 2025 - "The Age of Cinema" on Flip Sides (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 22, 2025 - "The Raven" on Krysti Pystolz (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 21, 2025 - "The Age of Cinema" on Mitch LeMay (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 15, 2025 - "The Age of Cinema" on Krysti Pystolz (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 14, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)" on Mitch LeMay (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 11, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on Pax Humana (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 5, 2025 - "The Plot Thickens" on Isotope (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 4, 2025 - "The Age of Cinema" on Cousin Mary (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
February 4, 2025 - "The Age of Cinema" on Sam Yorko (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
January 31, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on Good Karma (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
January 31, 2025 - Modern Silent Cinema - "The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)" on Mitch LeMay (KFJC 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
January 30, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on Bryan Chandler (KFJC 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
January 25, 2025 -"The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)" on Uncomfortable Communications with John Schoen (WAYO 104.3FM, Rochester, NY)
January 24, 2025 - "The Raven" on Elysian Fields with Dominic Castelli (KXCI 91.3, Tucson, AZ )
January 23, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on Helmynth (KFJC 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA)
January 16, 2025 - "The Age of Cinema" on Signal to Noise with Barry Lee (KKFI 90.1 FM, Kansas City, MO)
January 9, 2025 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on Space is the Place (Cando 106.3 /107.3 FM, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)
December 23, 2024 - "The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)" on Uptown Transmission with Gary James (Mothership.Voyage/Felixstowe Radio 107.5 FM, Suffolk, England)
December 21, 2024 - "The Mystery Writer (Synth Reprise)" on Uptown Transmission with Gary James (Mothership.Voyage/Felixstowe Radio 107.5 FM, Suffolk, England)
December 6, 2024 - "The Raven" on The Transmitter Down episode #384 (CRMK, Newport Pagnell, UK)
November 29, 2024 - "The Mystery Writer (Vocal)" on The Transmitter Down episode #383 (CRMK, Newport Pagnell, UK)