Gammalon Instrumental & Sound is a project of multi-instrumentalist Chris Scholtes. 

in 1995, Scholtes and longtime friends and lifelong Pink Floyd fanatics, Matt Zoll and Bob Bartram formed Several Species Pink Floyd Experience, considered by many to be America’s premier Pink Floyd tribute band.  The band consists of 11 expert musicians who together faithfully reproduce the music of Pink Floyd across its vast catalogue.

Chris began the Gammalon project to scratch his long neglected creative itch to return to writing original music (something he had put aside in the early 1990s). 

Chris descibes this project in an interview conducted by George Georgiou for Rockway in Greece (www.Rockway.gr)

The Gammalon Instrumental Music and Sound project and related storyline was born out of an inspiration to be more creative and interesting than simply delivering a “Chris Scholtes solo project.” I’ll try to be as succinct as possible on the premise: Gammalon is our world 100 years in the future where only 4% of the population remain alive. A nuclear energy facility in Japan was targeted for attack by some doomsday cult in the year 2087. The “Incident” as it’s known across the multi-CD story, sent gamma radiation across the Pacific ocean to California and the rest of the US via Pacific trade winds. The setting is in downtown Hollywood, CA around which surviving colonists have erected a protective wall and named their pioneering community as “Camp Pacific Freedom” (CPF). The wall protects them against a portion of humans who did not die from radiation, but instead have “gamma-morphed” into raging, violent facsimiles of their former selves. Our central characters are colonists and musicians, Peter Shen (gtr, keys), Elena (bass, keys) and a new drummer on each album (they all keep dying in bizarre ways – kind of a humorous nod to the legacy of Spinal Tap drummers). Gammalon is also the name of their band that has taken up residency in the Radio K.A.O.S. radio station on the Sunset Strip, a tribute to Roger Waters (NOTE: Radio K.A.O.S. is a Roger Waters solo album released in 1987). It is here where the central characters have recorded their albums. With each album release, Peter pens a memoir on the current status of daily life and strange goings on in Gammalon and CPF. His ongoing memoirs are captured in the liner notes of each CD and serve as periodic windows to that world.