Chroma Key

For the video special effect, see chroma key.

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.

To date there have been three Chroma Key releases:

• Dead Air For Radios
• You Go Now
• Graveyard Mountain Home

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

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 www.chromakey.com - as The Memory Hole 1. Graveyard Mountain Home was recorded in Istanbul, Turkey.

Kevin Moore released a soundtrack to a Turkish motion picture entitled Ghost Book.

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 album.