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Chroma Key
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- For the video special effect, see chroma key.
| Chroma Key | |
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| Image:KevMoLive.JPG Kevin performing live in Istanbul, March 2007, for the first time since he left Dream Theater
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| Background information | |
| 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.
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.
- Music Meant to Be Heard (DEMOS) (1994-1996)
- Dead Air for Radios (1998)
- Colorblind - single (1999)
- This is a Recording: 1994-1997 (1999)
- You Go Now (2000)
- Graveyard Mountain Home (2004)
All Chroma Key releases have been self-produced and recorded in Moore's home studios, the locations of which have changed from album to album.
O.S.I. Releases
- Office of Strategic Influence debut full-length CD (2003)
- Free 2nd full-length CD (2006)
- Re: Free CD-single of remixes (2006)
- Re: Free 12" vinyl of remixes (2006)
- Official site (offers downloadable albums or links to purchase the CD)
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