Chroma Key

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Chroma Key
Origin	United States of America
Genre(s)	Electronica, Ambient, Psychedelic
Years active	1998–present
Label(s)	Fight Evil Records, InsideOut Music
Associated acts	O.S.I., Dream Theater, Fates Warning
Website	chromakey.com

Chroma Key is the name under which ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore records. Although primarily a solo project, several other musicians have recorded as part of Chroma Key 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 1996, 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.