Chroma Key

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Chroma Key
Country	United States of America
Years active	1998 – present
Genres	Progressive Rock Electronica Ambient
Labels	InsideOut Music
Members	Kevin Moore
Website(s)	www.chromakey.com

Chroma Key is the name under which ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore records. Although primarily a Kevin Moore solo project, several musicians have recorded as part of Chroma Key with Kevin, such as bassist Joey Vera, drummer Mark Zonder, and guitarist Jason Anderson.

Moore's music is a mix of progressive rock and electronica and even some ambient, with detailed keyboard sounds and a slightly dark mood.

[edit] History

After leaving Dream Theater in 1994, Moore relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where much of the first album, 1998's Dead Air for Radios was written. 2000's You Go Now was written and recorded in Los Angeles, right before another move to Costa Rica, where Moore lived for 3 years. In Costa Rica, he began writing and recording ideas for a new Chroma Key album, during the day producing a bi-weekly, activist, musical radio program for Radio for Peace International, a short wave station based in San José. Moore released a compilation of the program — a mix of original music and politically volatile spoken word recordings — as a downloadable album on his official site as Memory Hole 1. Graveyard Mountain Home was recorded in Istanbul, Turkey.

[edit] Discography

All Chroma Key releases have been self-produced and recorded in Moore's home studios, the locations of which change from album to album.

[edit] External links

Official site (offers downloadable albums or links to purchase the CD)
Official FAQ containing information on the songs from Dead Air for Radios and You Go Now, plus details on the equipment used for recording these albums.