Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
Genre: Rock
Review
Listening to the projects that Kevin Moore has recorded on his own under the name Chroma Key, you'd never guess that he's a former member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Graveyard Mountain Home, in particular, sounds more like a twisted collaboration between Gabor Csupo and Muslimgauze than anything else you're likely to hear on the Inside Out label. The shape of the music was inspired by a strange "social guidance" film from the 1950s that Moore discovered; he slowed it down to half speed and stripped out the soundtrack, then used its surreal action as a guiding structure for the music, which at times is funky in a glitchy, herky-jerky sort of way ("YYY," "Before You Started") and at others is dark and meditative ("Mother's Radio," "True and Lost"). There are several songs, in the relatively traditional sense, such as the gorgeous and aptly titled "Sad Sad Movie," and a few tracks are accompanied by found-sound voices, but the focus is always on the music and the mood. The result is a surprisingly affecting and powerful work. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
Graveyard Mountain Home is the third solo album by Kevin Moore, released under the name Chroma Key.
Kevin Moore recorded this album in Istanbul, Turkey. The album contains 14 new songs written to accompany "a surreal, obscure social film" by Sid Davis from 1955 called Age 13 (Part 1, Part 2). The deluxe edition of the album contains that movie (which is under public domain) in its full length, played at half speed, with this album as a soundtrack in place of the original audio. The photos on the album are taken from the same movie.
Below the title on the deluxe edition cover, the text describing the concept of the album reads, "In his loneliness and out of his longing, an idea occurred to Andrew. If he could fix his mother's radio, perhaps he could bring her back to life."
