Dead Air for Radios

Chroma Key, ?????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 13, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fight Evil Records
• ASIN: B00000IOMS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lush, contemplative progressive rock with a nomadic theme, September 18, 1999

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Matt Harpold (Kent, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Air for Radios (Audio CD)

Kevin Moore's debut album is a nomadic masterpiece, the kind of album that you slide into a car stereo at 3 in the morning on a long road trip. It's a lush and subtle thing, and the imagery of the music revolves around shards of dreams and old television shows, half-forgotten conversations and the head-space we all visit when the silence around us is oppressive. Unique and creative use of analog synths abound, as songs like Colorblind and America the Video present a throbbing, layered heartbeat of synthesizers as their framework. Moore's sampling on this record is also a small work of genius, as he has 'bugged' his acquaintances' conversations, weaving them in his songs for emotional and textural effect. Mark Zonder of Fates Warning brings his peerless drumming skills to bear on this disc, and gives the music an organic, roomy dimension not possible with a drum machine. Moore's vocals are somewhere between David Gilmour and Peter Gabriel, reserved and poetic, but never brooding. Lyrics are of special note, recalling early Tori Amos wry storytelling. All and all, true sonic theater.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Darkness Between Fiction And Reality, May 1, 2005

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Harkanwar Anand (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Air for Radios (Audio CD)

There's never been a time in my life where the sound of a keyboard/piano has altered my thought process.I think Chroma Key are one step ahead of what we perceive as real and fictional.The melody they hold is quite solid in its subtlety.
My absolute favourite heart rendering track on this album is "On The Page" but the first song I heard from this album was "Undertow" I also dig "Colorblind". I'm not gonna go track by track but I'll talk about my favourite tracks.

There's a certain lyric in "On The Page" which goes like "It's like the water when I'm dreaming...." It's what I would call a breakaway from living a life where you live every detail and a transcending contrast where you write what you feel on a piece of page daily.I don't know the name of the vocalist of Chroma Key but I can safely say they can't possibly have more magical vocals for a band of its authority in supremacy.

I'd auction off my diary to support the cause of this absolute hellbender smooth album. The drums,keyboards are just outstanding and make me go numb. I know numb is a weak over used word but not for this under rated band. Actually,I'm quite glad they're underrated because I honestly feel not everyone deserves music as grand as this.

Undertow is the kind of a track I'd listen to when im in the middle of a day where its bright outside but I'm in my dark room trying to ignore the world. There's no love song on the album. It's an album for loners. Atleast , thats what I consider myself as. We're all alone and this album re-affirms by beleif in sanity of one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Genius Is Seldom Appreciated Until After Death..., March 19, 2000

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Gary Drumm (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Air for Radios (Audio CD)

hopefully, for Kevin Moore, this will not be the case. I have been a long time Dream Theater fan, however; upon Moore's departure, I slowly drifted away from DT. When I heard he was making his own music, I'd had heard that it was a Jazz Fusion/Techno experience. I was absolutely thrilled to hear what it actually was...GENIUS!

His vivid use of tone and surreal, thought provoking lyrics left this writer's jaw on the perverbial floor. The first song, "Colorblind" gives the listener a glimpse at what is to come, yet is somewhat ironic. The album is anything but "colorblind".

Moore uses his technical expertise to bring forth a myriad of musical scores that are pleasing to the ear and provocative to the mind.

BUY THIS ALBUM! Put it in your car and go on a long trip. You can bet that you will never have to change the music.

"Life is so much cleaner, on the page"...

GLD