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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: porksoda on May 26, 2009, 04:39:39 PM
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Discuss Kevin Moore's amazing solo albums here. Really getting into this lately. Graveyard Mountain Home is the only one that hasn't clicked with me yet.
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You Go Now is a brilliant album. Lunar = EARGASM
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I agree. I love CK, especially Dead Air for Radios and You Go Now. Fantastic mood and atmosphere combined with a great, cold, distant vocal delivery.
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Dead Air For Radios and You Go Now are amazing albums and Mouse is easily one of my top 5 songs.
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Graveyard Mountain Home is easily my favorite of the three, but that's probably because it was my first.
Still, the other two are pretty awesome. I wish Chroma Key got a little more love around here.
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Dead Air For Radios is one of my favorite albums ever :tup
I hope that one day we get some new Chroma Key (although I can't say I would mind if KM kept doing OSI albums :P)
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Graveyard Mountain Home is the only one that hasn't clicked with me yet.
Have you listened to it alongside the accompanying video? The album is a lot more accessible when you experience it that way.
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Graveyard Mountain Home is easily my favorite of the three, but that's probably because it was my first.
Still, the other two are pretty awesome. I wish Chroma Key got a little more love around here.
Yes, that. Great album.
Sad sad movie
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Graveyard Mountain Home is the only one that hasn't clicked with me yet.
Have you listened to it alongside the accompanying video? The album is a lot more accessible when you experience it that way.
Then I'll try that soon :tup
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I've been completely obsessed with You Go Now the past few days.
I think my favorite track off of that album is When You Drive, followed closely by Lunar. GMH has been a favorite of mine for a while, YGN, for whatever reason, didn't click until recently. It's so... :chill.
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I love all three in different ways. Dead Air for Radios is weird yet simplistic stylistically, but it has a lot of really catchy stuff in it. You Go Now has a very deep quality that takes a while to appreciate. Graveyard Mountain Home has probably the most straight up electronic sound, but it takes a while to appreciate the songs in context.
Either way, it's great stuff. Chroma Key is one of my favorite bands/projects ever because it's very moody but with an edge to it. The music itself is simple, but its execution is complex. It just works on a lot of levels.
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The lyrics to "Another Permanent Adress" are some of the best I've read. Kevin must have had a looot of bad breakups.
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Definitely a fan. Love all of Dead Air..., and the other two both have some really good stuff on them. :tup :tup
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I guess you all know you can stream all CK stuff on www.chromakey.com but what I didn't know is that you can download for free Memory Hole 1. So if you're into Kev's electronic music with all sorts of samples and stuff like that - go get it.
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I love all three in different ways. Dead Air for Radios is weird yet simplistic stylistically, but it has a lot of really catchy stuff in it. You Go Now has a very deep quality that takes a while to appreciate. Graveyard Mountain Home has probably the most straight up electronic sound, but it takes a while to appreciate the songs in context.
Either way, it's great stuff. Chroma Key is one of my favorite bands/projects ever because it's very moody but with an edge to it. The music itself is simple, but its execution is complex. It just works on a lot of levels.
This, also one of my favorite bands. Love especially the songs Colorblind, On The Page (favorite KevMo song ever perhaps) and You Go Now.
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I guess you all know you can stream all CK stuff on www.chromakey.com but what I didn't know is that you can download for free Memory Hole 1. So if you're into Kev's electronic music with all sorts of samples and stuff like that - go get it.
Haven't been to that site in a little while. Thanks for the tip.
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Read the title and thought this was a Boards of Canada thread :(
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/Needs to know where I can get all 3 albums. NAO!
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His site. You can buy them there ;)
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You can also stream the entire album for free there.
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If we look at release history, how long time is it between one OSI record and one CK record?
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# You Go Now (2000) # Office of Strategic Influence (February, 2003)
# Ghost Book (2004) # Free (April, 2006)
# Graveyard Mountain Home (2004) # re:free (EP) (November, 2006)
BW&BK: Speaking of that kind of voice, what’s the status of Chroma Key at this point?
KM: “I rarely have any future plans (laughs). And I rarely have future plans when I’m putting one project to bed, so I’m not really sure about what’s going on with Chroma Key. I would only want to do it if there was something interesting there, and I would only want to do it for a good reason. I don’t want to do it just to put out another Chroma Key album. So we’ll see what happens.”
Some months ago Steve Tushar mentioned that he'd love to do another CK album with Kevin and that they will talk about it. Meanwhile you can listen to a song off of Tushar's solo albu, featuring KM on vocals and lyrics: Periscope. https://www.myspace.com/stevetusharmusic
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What should be my first Chroma Key album?
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Go in chronological order. Even though I like You Go Now more than Dead Air For Radios, I feel like it would be a weird transition the other way around.
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Keep in mind that the stranger and more emotional an album is, the more inclined I am to like it.
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Oh, You Go Now is weird man. Another Permanent Address and When You Drive especially.
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You Go Now is fucking amazing. Lunar =
(https://www.gifbin.com/bin/042009/1239788892_smile-in-my-pants.gif)
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I went with Graveyard Mountain Home, the Limited DVD edition, which seems to be more plentiful than the un-limited edition.
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Bad choice. That one's good but DAfR and YGN are way, way better and probably more accessible as well.
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I didn't want to spend a lot and it was the only one that wasn't $25.
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$10 each on iTunes :justjen
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CD collector.
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Oh, You Go Now is weird man. Another Permanent Address and When You Drive especially.
Weird? Is that all? You just named my two favorite songs by CK; surely they had more of an impact than simply "weird". But maybe not, I might just be one of the few that loves these, however I can't see how anyone can't hear how majestic and transcending the music makes one (at least me) feel. Every time I listen to the above songs, mainly WYD, I become completely calm and clear minded, its truly amazing. Even if I've had the shittiest day (that isn't near over) and can't seem to clear my head of all the shit going on, I can put this on and my heart rate will drop, I'll stop feeling so scatter brained, and everything will simply stand still. To call it an awesome accomplishment is understating just a tad.
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Oh, You Go Now is weird man. Another Permanent Address and When You Drive especially.
Weird? Is that all? You just named my two favorite songs by CK; surely they had more of an impact than simply "weird". But maybe not, I might just be one of the few that loves these, however I can't see how anyone can't hear how majestic and transcending the music makes one (at least me) feel. Every time I listen to the above songs, mainly WYD, I become completely calm and clear minded, its truly amazing. Even if I've had the shittiest day (that isn't near over) and can't seem to clear my head of all the shit going on, I can put this on and my heart rate will drop, I'll stop feeling so scatter brained, and everything will simply stand still. To call it an awesome accomplishment is understating just a tad.
Actually I used to really love both of those songs. I just associate them with a bad time, when they weren't exactly helpful in making me feel better about it.
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Someone suggested watching the movie while listening to Graveyard Mountain Home. Is the video still online? I still need to buy it, but the first two albums, as well as his pre-Chroma Key demos are all great listening.
My copy of You Go Now is signed by Kevin as well :hat
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My copy of You Go Now is signed by Kevin as well :hat
:omg:
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Oh, You Go Now is weird man. Another Permanent Address and When You Drive especially.
Weird? Is that all? You just named my two favorite songs by CK; surely they had more of an impact than simply "weird". But maybe not, I might just be one of the few that loves these, however I can't see how anyone can't hear how majestic and transcending the music makes one (at least me) feel. Every time I listen to the above songs, mainly WYD, I become completely calm and clear minded, its truly amazing. Even if I've had the shittiest day (that isn't near over) and can't seem to clear my head of all the shit going on, I can put this on and my heart rate will drop, I'll stop feeling so scatter brained, and everything will simply stand still. To call it an awesome accomplishment is understating just a tad.
Actually I used to really love both of those songs. I just associate them with a bad time, when they weren't exactly helpful in making me feel better about it.
Ah, I know where you're coming from. Sadly that has happened with quite a few songs I like very much as well, and I suppose it cannot be helped. Lucky for me these two songs haven't had such treatment...yet. Hopefully you can get back into them one day and forget those memories.
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I mean I still listen to them; I just feel...weird listening to them.
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Kevin is the man. I love Dead Air For Radios the most. That album just clicks for me. GMH is my least favorite only cause his vocals are sparse and buried in the mix. I love Kevin's voice and like it in the forefront.
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Hey, everyone. I just posted an interview at the The Mooreatorium with Dogu Yucel, the Turkish writer and author of Hayalet Kitap (Ghost Book). The book inspired the 2004 film "Okul (School)," which featured a soundtrack by Kevin Moore. Yucel also wrote the script for "Okul" and "Kucuk Kiyamet," a 2006 Turkish film that was also scored by Moore. For that movie, Moore was nomminated for a SIYAD movie award. In the interview, Yucel talks about how he initially approached Moore for the movie projects and how the films were received by Turkish movie critics. Check it out!
The Mooreatorium
www.themooreatorium.com
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Yesterday I got my first Chroma Key album, "Graveyard Mountain Home." Last night I watched the DVD, and that album is absolute fucking GOLD.
I've been listening to it nonstop.
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Just got Dead Air for Radios, and am currently listening to Undertow. It's very dark, and yet weirdly hypnotic, and I'm loving it so far. If all remains well for the rest of the album, I'll be sure to get You Go Now soon.
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The 'song' Hell Mary still creeps me the hell out. Listening on headphones in a dark quiet room is just like :|
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Is there any place to get "You Go Now" that won't cost me $30?
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Is there any place to get "You Go Now" that won't cost me $30?
Not really, unless you want to get the download edition. That said, it's totally worth it. It's a brilliant album.
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I hope it's as minimalistic as GMH. God I'm loving this album.
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I'm not sure I'd really call it minimalistic. It's a very relaxes, atmospheric album. At the same time, I haven't really gotten into GMH, so take my opinion for what it's worth.
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Just get it from iTunes for $10 or whatever it is.
Edit: Oh, not even; it's $8.91 on iTunes. It's a really really great Kevin Moore album, but I wouldn't shell out $30 for an album even when Kevin rejoins Dream Theater and they make the best follow-up to Awake conceivable.
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I hope it's as minimalistic as GMH. God I'm loving this album.
I wouldn't call either album minimalistic. But they're both firmly part of the Chroma Key lineage.
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even when Kevin rejoins Dream Theater and they make the best follow-up to Awake conceivable.
I think any album could be considered a good follow-up to Awake :biggrin:
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:slowclap:
or better yet, cue your Citizen Kane slow clap gif
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So I finally listened to Chroma Key, and Undertow is amazing. These albums are super hard to find, and I've got free amazon credit for 2 more songs, (used one on Undertow) could people please list what they think CK's 2 best songs are? Thanks :)
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Lunar and Get Back in the Car
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So I finally listened to Chroma Key, and Undertow is amazing. These albums are super hard to find, and I've got free amazon credit for 2 more songs, (used one on Undertow) could people please list what they think CK's 2 best songs are? Thanks :)
Go to the official Chroma Key website and listen to all the songs for free.
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I didn't want to spend a lot and it was the only one that wasn't $25.
I dunno if you have it now, but I'm just ordering these two CD's now (Dead Air for Radios, while possibly my favorite album ever, is a BITCH to find cheap) and You Go Now is only $15 on his site now, instead of $25.
This thread needed a bump anyway. ;D
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Oh Hell Mary yeah. I love just how laid back his music is. Whenever i put it on it calms my nerves
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Great music for driving in the middle of the night.
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Not really sure how I missed this thread. I found all of Kev's stuff about a year ago and its really great stuff. You Go Now and Dead Air for Radios are my favorites.
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Chroma Key may just be my favorite band. Everything is consistently amazing. That goes for all of Kevin Moore's stuff in OSI as well, though that project has a few songs here and there that don't hold my interest.
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Yep, pretty much. People rate SW high, but KevMo rarely puts out anything subpar.
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Recently been exposed some to Chroma Key, more specifically Graveyard Mountain Home.
It wasn't what i had expected, i thought it would be something instrumental keyboard-based (like Bass Communion-ish), but i still found the result to be pleasantly surprising.
Need to give it more plays, but i really like it after only 2-3 plays.
Very chill and relaxing indeed.
:tup
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I really want another CK...I doubt we'll see one for a few more years. He seems really comfy doing OSI.
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I'm listening to "Graveyard Mountain Home" for the second time. Definitely chill. I'm on track three thus far. :hat
:hat
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Memory Hole is the best thing he's done
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Memory Hole is definitely incredible. Ghost Book is just as good. I pooped the first time I heard the piano theme on it, which is the motif from Sad Sad Movie.
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RESSURECTION.
Listening to Ghost Book now. Sounds alot like GMH, which is a very very good thing. Has anyone heard Shine yet?
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Yeah, Shine is great. There aren't too many memorable songs on it but it was a soundtrack so that is to be expected. Great background music!
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I think Dead Air for Radios is my favourite. Although my absolute favourite song is Another Permanent Address - genius !!!
What I love about DAFR is the freedom, it takes real courage to leave something successful (DT), the friends you grew up with and just follow your own journey.
and this album, to me, tells that story.
Its what MP could never understand.... but if he really listened to this album, it had all the answers.
P.S
Shine is amazing also !
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Shine is really beautiful, but it's apparently sold out. Hopefully, it goes on sale again at some point. DAFR is pure magic to me. The first five songs on that disc are just amazing.
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The Ghost Book edit of Sad Sad Movie is my favourite KM song, I think.
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Shine is really beautiful, but it's apparently sold out. Hopefully, it goes on sale again at some point. DAFR is pure magic to me. The first five songs on that disc are just amazing.
Wow!
Shine sold out? That's awesome!
How many copies were pressed?
I have to admit I haven't listened to this much over the last few months as it's a lot more subtle than most of his work. I find I really have to pay attention whenever I'm listening as it's a very quiet listening experience.
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Yeah, I signed up on the website to get an email when more come in stock. You'd think he'd release it digitally...
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I decided to give both Dead Air for Radios and You Go Now a listen (actually more than just one!) and I'm impressed! :hefdaddy DAFR is a masterpiece and YGN has some really nice atmospheric stuff as well but I prefer DAFR for its more organic songs and bigger amount of vocals. Kevin is not technically a great singer but he has lots of emotion in his voice on the early songs, something that's missing in OSI.
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Great cover version of Chroma Key's "Colorblind" posted online yesterday by a South Korea-based progressive electronic band called Pinnochio's Moment of Clarity...
https://soundcloud.com/pmoc/colorblind
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Damn, when I clicked on the thread I thought there would be actual CK news, even though I know that was not likely.
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Damn, when I clicked on the thread I thought there would be actual CK news, even though I know that was not likely.
It's a common sickness. You suddenly light up and then... depression. It happened to me and many others here with the Indiscipline Images And Words thread. Did you happen to read that, by chance?
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It's a common sickness. You suddenly light up and then... depression. It happened to me and many others here with the Indiscipline Images And Words thread. Did you happen to read that, by chance?
I didn't exactly light up, but I kind of unexpectedly expected to be surprised and then I saw the world has no extraordinary surprises in store for me. Not that bands covering KM's post DT material aren't nice. Yup, I did. Wish I had a story like that to tell.
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And speak of the devil, whoever operates Kev's facebook page just posted a video of kids covering Pull Me Under. THE PAGE IS ALIVE AGAIN FOLKS.
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I just posted some Kevin Moore news on The Mooreatorium. See below:
Dec. 20, 2012 - Moore to appear as guest keyboardist on upcoming album by Amadeus Awad
It's time to add yet another guest appearance to Kevin Moore's growing resume.
Beirut-based progressive metal band Amadeus Awad announced last week that Moore has collaborated as a guest keyboardist on the band's upcoming album, The Book of Gates.
"We are very proud to unveil the name of the first international artist collaborating with us on The Book Of Gates," the band said last week on Facebook. "The man behind the keyboard mastery of the first three Dream Theater albums: When Dreams and Day Unite, Images and Words and Awake. The mastermind of the prog rock project OSI: Mr. Kevin Moore."
In a separate post, Amadeus Awad described The Book of Gates as a tale of a union separated by an abyss of psychological turbulence and the alliance of opposites with four characters – The Pharaoh, the Queen, the Necromancer, and the Keeper of the Gates – that travel through the fabrics of life and death's epiphanies. The story also involves a quest for immortality, dictated by false doctrines and promises of lying priests, that places a huge political burden on the reign of the pharaohs.
"The writing of The Book Of Gates started as a collaborative work between the band members, resulting in a heavy progressive album with oriental elements never heard before," the band said. "Heavier sound, mighty production and huge international names mark the start of the band's new age, a new EON."
For more information on Amadeus Awad, visit the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amadeus.awad.band
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Most of his guest spots are things I would never expect of him! :biggrin: It's all good, more Kevin makes me a happy panda anyway.
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I just heard one of the songs from the upcoming album of Amadeus Awad. Not sure if it's a track that Kevin played on. But wow, it's extremely impressive. It was a very winding progressive metal tune with piano and guitar that kind of reminded me of something from the middle of Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing more.
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I just heard one of the songs from the upcoming album of Amadeus Awad. Not sure if it's a track that Kevin played on. But wow, it's extremely impressive. It was a very winding progressive metal tune with piano and guitar that kind of reminded me of something from the middle of Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing more.
Is it legally available on the internet? I may not be disappointed in giving it a chance, considering your small review :)
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I just heard one of the songs from the upcoming album of Amadeus Awad. Not sure if it's a track that Kevin played on. But wow, it's extremely impressive. It was a very winding progressive metal tune with piano and guitar that kind of reminded me of something from the middle of Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing more.
I recently heard APSOG for the first time and Kev's work in the middle of the album completely spellblinded me. I can definitely discern the small touches he added to Jim's existing keyboard blueprints, or at least I think I can, which is the same thing :lol
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The other guest on that album is Timo Tolkki. Well that's fucking weird :lol
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Hey, everyone! Just posted another piece of Kevin Moore news on The Mooreatorium:
Jan. 4, 2013 - Chaos Venture posts video trailer of new album featuring Moore
Kevin Moore has officially entered the space age.
Chaos Venture, a progressive psychedelic rock band based in Italy, posted a video trailer today on Facebook that features song excerpts from its upcoming album, which the band previously said features Moore as guest keyboardist on a song titled "Abduction." In the teaser, the band describes the music as "space metal."
"A new genre named space metal will drive you to the next level of awareness, pushing our consciousness to the real genetic origin of the human being," the band said in the video. "The bible tells us about beings that have come from other worlds and made the mankind; over centuries these beings have been transformed into divinities and the original plurality has been reduced to a single god."
The video also reveals that the band's new album is "coming soon" and that the trailer's music contains "rough mixed songs." Other prominent guest musicians on the album are Fates Warning's former drummer Mark Zonder and Porcupine Tree keyboardist Richard Barbieri.
To view the video trailer, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0oKlOoT1yo
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Kevin seems to be doing a lot of guest appearances lately! I wish he would release something of his own too...
The other guest on that album is Timo Tolkki. Well that's fucking weird :lol
inb4 he cancels his appearance on the album
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Kevin seems to be doing a lot of guest appearances lately! I wish he would release something of his own too...
The other guest on that album is Timo Tolkki. Well that's fucking weird :lol
inb4 he cancels his appearance on the album
Yeah, I also wish he would do something of his own. It's been less than a year since the last OSI though so I don't think we'll see much of him any time soon :-\ I don't usually pay too much attention to his guest spots unless it's something I'd like even without his involvement.
Haha that would be awesome. Maaan Tolkki is one weird motherfucker.
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I've listened to the sample of the Italian band's album. While I think the concept is quite cheesy and honestly looks as if it has just come out of a pot smoking session with Charlie, the music intrigue me to say the least. I will follow them and wait for the release. :)
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I haven't paid attention to those guest appearances either, but the Chaos Venture trailer sounded ok (maybe not good enough for me to buy the album) and they have some cool guests, like Kevin and Richard Barbieri - the "space metal" thing sounds damn pretentious though! :lol
And yes, Tolkki has a tendency to pull the plug on a lot of things he's planned - the second Symfonia album never came out, neither did his autobiography or the double solo album, and even the appearance of the Dreamspace-era line-up at the 25th anniversary show of Waltari was cancelled at the last minute! :lol
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I haven't paid attention to those guest appearances either, but the Chaos Venture trailer sounded ok (maybe not good enough for me to buy the album) and they have some cool guests, like Kevin and Richard Barbieri - the "space metal" thing sounds damn pretentious though! :lol
And yes, Tolkki has a tendency to pull the plug on a lot of things he's planned - the second Symfonia album never came out, neither did his autobiography or the double solo album, and even the appearance of the Dreamspace-era line-up at the 25th anniversary show of Waltari was cancelled at the last minute! :lol
Pretty damn pretentious, and yeah, kind of like something that would come out of a pot-smoking session with Charlie :D but the music sounds good, we agree.
Didn't Tolkki also say he was quitting music altogether, then go forward with some album announcements in a matter of weeks? And the Strato breakdown in the mid-2000s was bizarre to say the least.
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Didn't Tolkki also say he was quitting music altogether, then go forward with some album announcements in a matter of weeks? And the Strato breakdown in the mid-2000s was bizarre to say the least.
Well, Tolkki said he was leaving the music business for an indeterminate period of time, and after a while he announced that a solo album would be released through Pledgemusic, so he kept his word in that way, but after he had reached the goal he had for donations, he suddenly called it a day.
Basically everything that happened in the Stratovarius camp in 2004 was just a huge publicity stunt, nothing more! :lol I think the only thing that actually happened was Tolkki getting hospitalized, but the news about the stabbing, hiring a female singer, etc. was just bullshit. He's bipolar, so I bet that's why his actions are so impulsive.
But let's not turn this into a Tolkki thread, after all, this thread is about smoking pot with Charlie...
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Or, to switch back to CK - yesterday I listened to Subway while walking and I've come to the conclusion that's one of the best buildups on YGN
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Yeah, it's a great buildup indeed. I :heart the part with the heavy bass chords! You Go Now is a great album overall, it's so relaxing... It took more time to grow than Dead Air for Radios, and I still prefer the latter, but both albums are really good. Too bad Graveyard Mountain Home isn't even close to their level.
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I finally decided to start listening to them. Yesterday I got You Go Now and I was pretty impressed. Great album!
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I used to think GMH is not on their level but something just clicked. Maybe it's the unique mixture of styles, maybe it's the precious connection to the movie and insight into how it was made. Maybe it's Sad Sad Movie + Again Today :lol but I love it almost as much as DAFR now. DAFR is definitely the best for me; KM is the first artist that dabbles in electronic stuff that I love but I prefer his more "organic" style if that makes any sense. I'm still in the "unconditionally love whatever he does"-camp :D
ColdFireYYZ yay welcome :heart
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The first 2 albums work really well as entities, but the individual songs are great as well; unfortunately GMH lacks songs that stand out and as a full album it's slightly boring IMO. Maybe it relies too much on the movie or maybe it's the lack of songs with vocals, I just prefer the more song-based style of the previous records. I haven't lost my faith in Kevin, though - the latest 3 OSI albums show that he's still more than capable of making great music.
DAFR is definitely the best for me; KM is the first artist that dabbles in electronic stuff that I love but I prefer his more "organic" style if that makes any sense.
Wholeheartedly agreed - Chroma Key, along with the more experimental albums by Paradise Lost, has made me more open-minded towards electronic stuff and I've discovered some interesting music as a result. However, I still like Dead Air the most out of Kevin's post-DT works, with the exception of Free, which is simply perfect.
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Free is simply perfect, we agree. And I wish Graveyard Mountain Home had more upfront vocals, the songs that do have them (title track, Sad Sad Movie) ended up as my favorites :tup
Uhm, I just really want a new album. :-\
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Not sure if this is too off-topic, but I ordered Shine yesterday. Listened to the download and it was much different than I expected (not sure what I was expecting really, since I don't know anything about the movie) but it was pretty interesting. Its not something that I'd be able to listen to all the time but I enjoyed it.
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I say we should merge all thread regarding KM's music since there's never a lot going on on all fronts (mostly it's just OSI and smaller projects on the side in the past ten years or so) and that way we won't have to worry about offtopic :)
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That's a good idea. I think there's a KevMo thread around here somewhere? Maybe I'm just thinking of this thread though... Either way, there should be if there isn't, just all around Mooreness. Heck, even OSI doesn't get all that much attention anymore so that should be lumped in as well. Some might disagree on that front however.
GMH is a masterful work of art and it does take some 'getting used to' I suppose. Although it clicked with me right away, I tend to be very open to minimalistic music that is dependent on atmosphere and 'vibe' rather than outright, straightforward music. Probably why I love the Shine soundtrack way more than I should along with Memory Hole 1 and Ghost Book. MH1 is basically a bunch of voice-samples spliced in with the usual Moore backdrops and while it's very odd, it's beautiful in it's execution. Ghost Book is more of the same of that train of thought but with a bit more electronic music as opposed to beats of sounds. I love all of his work really, with very few exceptions.
I'm done hoping for new CK, if I do I'll just about walk out a twenty-story window. I want it so god damn badly but I really don't think Kev will do another. It's been relegated to a mere blip in the ocean of lost hope that has become my heart. /sadsadmovie
P.S. Ghost Book's version of Sad Sad Movie, while only ever-so-slightly different is my favorite. Wonderful song.
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I'm done hoping for new CK, if I do I'll just about walk out a twenty-story window. I want it so god damn badly but I really don't think Kev will do another. It's been relegated to a mere blip in the ocean of lost hope that has become my heart. /sadsadmovie
I have this feeling that something might come out in a year or two but not under the Chroma Key name or in a Chroma Key style. It's just that, the way he talks about it in interviews, it gives me the impression of something being worked on and scrapped and being worked on again, he always says he stopped working on Chroma Key since the inception of OSI but sometimes mentions having some ideas... even if he's done with Chroma Key, I don't think he's done with solo work.
At least I hope so! I adore OSI, I really do, but I adore Kevin on his own as well.
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I'd like to hope so, but I'd rather be blown away surprised if it does come to fruition than hanging on words for years. Even though I say that I still hope and will cling. Wahhh!
Yeah, I love OSI, but it just does not compare at all to Kevin's solo work in my...ears. They're too different to compare, and while there's obvious influences and strands of thoughts that bleed into each project, KevMo solo is on a different plane of thought and entirely different in its execution. I love mellow, entrancing, atmospheric music so much and Kevin has absolutely mastered that side of his music. On the same page, the music in OSI can be very moving as well, it's just a bit more straightforward, especially the most recent album. I suppose that's why I love Free and the S/T much more than Fire Make Thunder (that said, I still like that album, I just don't have a religion built around it like I do his other albums).
Oh Moore, whom I love and devote my musical soul to, please hear my prayer of whines and grant me my wish of another atmospheric album that will encompass my very being. Amen. May Moore be with you.
/scotch
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I'd like to hope so, but I'd rather be blown away surprised if it does come to fruition than hanging on words for years. Even though I say that I still hope and will cling. Wahhh!
Yeah, I love OSI, but it just does not compare at all to Kevin's solo work in my...ears. They're too different to compare, and while there's obvious influences and strands of thoughts that bleed into each project, KevMo solo is on a different plane of thought and entirely different in its execution. I love mellow, entrancing, atmospheric music so much and Kevin has absolutely mastered that side of his music. On the same page, the music in OSI can be very moving as well, it's just a bit more straightforward, especially the most recent album. I suppose that's why I love Free and the S/T much more than Fire Make Thunder (that said, I still like that album, I just don't have a religion built around it like I do his other albums).
Oh Moore, whom I love and devote my musical soul to, please hear my prayer of whines and grant me my wish of another atmospheric album that will encompass my very being. Amen. May Moore be with you.
/scotch
You're my type of person. /milk
I wonder would he think we're completely crazy if he read this and similar other essays on his music that are written around here and in other places (I know I've written my share) :lol
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:heart
I think half of him would be completely freaked out and the other half would be utterly ecstatic to hear that his music affects people so profoundly. It seems that he is a bit ambivalent on the subject of his solo music; as if he doesn't think it's as amazing as it is due to his self-esteem issues, which he certainly has in droves. It might have something to do with the whole popularity game in the music industry, but surely he knew going in that he would be a niche artist. The dulled masses couldn't possibly comprehend the beauty of his music *hocks loogie and spits*.
I remember reading one interview and he was saying how he doesn't think his voice is suited to 'sing' and that when he listens to other artists that he's worked with, he wonders "so this is how a vocalist sounds" or something along the lines of that. That just kills me, because his voice is so perfect for his music that I couldn't possibly even imagine (let alone 'want') another vocalist taking his place. He is an absolute vision of an artist and encompass everything I love about music; and does so in a way that no one else could even attempt to imitate.
I really hope he does see this so that it kicks his ass into a torrential wave of inspiration and emotion. Or...he calls the INTERPOL and gets a restraining order for a guy half-way across the world. That would be equally awesome as I'd then have a connection to him, however negative or indirect.
Fawk, there's somethingmany things wrong with me.
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I agree with what you said, Tio, even though I still am unaware of a good 80% of his production. I like his midset and his attitude towards the creative and personal path he chose for himself.
How much did I grow in the past two years! I would have never written those words in 2010!
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:heart
I think half of him would be completely freaked out and the other half would be utterly ecstatic to hear that his music affects people so profoundly. It seems that he is a bit ambivalent on the subject of his solo music; as if he doesn't think it's as amazing as it is due to his self-esteem issues, which he certainly has in droves. It might have something to do with the whole popularity game in the music industry, but surely he knew going in that he would be a niche artist. The dulled masses couldn't possibly comprehend the beauty of his music *hocks loogie and spits*.
I remember reading one interview and he was saying how he doesn't think his voice is suited to 'sing' and that when he listens to other artists that he's worked with, he wonders "so this is how a vocalist sounds" or something along the lines of that. That just kills me, because his voice is so perfect for his music that I couldn't possibly even imagine (let alone 'want') another vocalist taking his place. He is an absolute vision of an artist and encompass everything I love about music; and does so in a way that no one else could even attempt to imitate.
I really hope he does see this so that it kicks his ass into a torrential wave of inspiration and emotion. Or...he calls the INTERPOL and gets a restraining order for a guy half-way across the world. That would be equally awesome as I'd then have a connection to him, however negative or indirect.
Fawk, there's somethingmany things wrong with me.
He also said "we figured I would do the vocals and try to make it sound presentable". It's a million notches above "presentable" :lol
I considered for a year or so writing really long and embarrassing fanmail about how his music helped me go on with my life and not fall into the mud that is FUCKICANTGOONTHISTHINGSUCKSIWANTTOLIVEONSLEEPANDMISERYTILIDIE but then I realized whatever I write could only convey 1% of what it means to me and it would be really embarrassing and weird and awful and god please stop me from writing one now I'm just a confused foolish little girl who likes music a lot :lol
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:laugh: I feel ya, gurl.
We can only wait. And give human sacrifices. BRBgointothebasement
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Right on, Tio!
Also:
I agree with what you said, Tio, even though I still am unaware of a good 80% of his production. I like his midset and his attitude towards the creative and personal path he chose for himself.
How much did I grow in the past two years! I would have never written those words in 2010!
WELCOME TO KEVIN MOORE! We have music and cake. I'm sure he'd approve.
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Are we sure he's not a vegan? Because in that case, he would not approve :lol
Tomorrow I'll be empting what remains to be checked out of your kmplaylist! I hope to find something that clicks right away, even though I know that it won't be anywhere this simple :/
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I think the OSI thread should be kept separate, because not all OSI fans here have listened to Kev's other stuff and they probably prefer the prog metal aspects. However, I agree that there should be only one thread for Chroma Key and other stuff Kevin has released solo.
Anyway, great to see he's finding new fans for his post-DT projects despite the lack of activity! :tup
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SOS is amazing!! :omg: :omg:
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It's great, but I'd say Colorblind is my favorite from DAFR, I love the dark mood of that song, and the little break with just the piano is really effective.
When I heard Colorblind for the first time a year ago, I was thinking to myself: "if the rest of the album is this good, I'll love it" - and my prediction was right! :biggrin: I had heard On the Page 2 years before that, - just because I was curious to see what KevMo had been up to since leaving DT - but I didn't care about it back then. But last year the time was right - I had heard all the OSI albums and overall my tastes had become more diverse, so I fell in love with the album! :heart
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I have listened to DAFR 4 times in a row yesterday evening, and I was completely stunned. It's such a beautiful and poignant album! I'm so happy to have reached the right place to be finally able, after almost three year of failed attempts, this solo work of Kevin.
Favourites so far: SOS, On The Page, Colorblind, Hell Mary (very unsettling but overall brilliant)
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dead air for radios, you go now and graveyard mountain home are all awesome albums, but what the heck is the album cover for you go now? an astronaunt getting his teeth pulled? :huh:
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dead air for radios, you go now and graveyard mountain home are all awesome albums, but what the heck is the album cover for you go now? an astronaunt getting his teeth pulled? :huh:
I read on a FAQ one time that it's very old and that's where would install his microphone.... Maybe someone can confirm? I'm about 80% sure I'm right.
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Also, if you visit webarchive and search for Chroma Key's website, you get to see the old site where he had short descriptions of the lyrics on the album.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001202204700/https://www.chromakey.com/lyrics.htm
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Also, if you visit webarchive and search for Chroma Key's website, you get to see the old site where he had short descriptions of the lyrics on the album.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001202204700/https://www.chromakey.com/lyrics.htm
Been there, done that :corn
About the You Go Now cover/astronaut references thing:
The cover, all the astronauts, and that name go together somehow," notes Kevin. But You Go Now was just a phrase that we were throwing around the studio when we were recording the record. Basically it means, 'please leave, because I want to record this'. It was just used so much. Space seems like an overall theme for the album but I never planned it that way. I had picked up this LP, basically recordings of NASA transmission. It was really strange. It wasn't like incredible moments in space, but more like, 'OK, the astronauts are trying to get to sleep now and they're almost asleep but they're not asleep yet', really mundane kinds of things. It sounded really lonely and I thought it would fit well with the album. So I made a whole song with those samples which is 'Lunar' and incorporated it into another song, 'Astronaut Down'. And at that point I realized there was this picture on the studio wall that had been up there since we started recording, and that's the picture that's on the cover, again, this strange, unheroic NASA photo, a picture of this guy getting his mic adjusted, although it looks like he's getting his teeth pulled or something.
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I really like You Go Now. For a while, I was bugged that there were a handful of instrumental songs that didn't feature Kevin's voice (because I love his voice), but I eventually really embraced that album. It's so sample heavy, which is awesome. The closing track has some fascinating samples. And I love the work of Steve Tushar on that album. I think he contributed a lot of the soundscapes and atmospheric noises that really gives the album a cool sonic sound. I truly hope they work together again someday soon.
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@ morawintersoul - thanks for the quote. now that i look at it, i see the microphone and it makes alot more sense lol
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Dead Air For Radios while studying at night. The best thing I could ask for. Tomorrow I'm ordering it from amazon.co.uk.
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So I ordered Shine earlier this month and got the download email but no shipping confirmation. I sent an email to make sure my order went through and Kevin himself responded right back! I don't know why, but it was pretty exciting seeing an email from him.
On the other hand, I got Dead Air For Radios the other day and it was excellent. I'm not sure if I like it more than You Go Now but the vocals were better, imo.
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So I ordered Shine earlier this month and got the download email but no shipping confirmation. I sent an email to make sure my order went through and Kevin himself responded right back! I don't know why, but it was pretty exciting seeing an email from him.
That's awesome!
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Artist directly interacting with the fans in unexpected ways FTW. :metal
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Anyone who gets an email from Kevin should feel honored!
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UPDATE: I am completely unable to rank 3/4 of the songs on DAFR. How can I say if Undertow is better than SOS or vice versa? And Colorblind/On The Page? Darn Kevin.
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So I went into Facebook for updates from my study group, planning to spend the rest of the evening quietly socializing with Charles Dickens and Lord Alfred Tennyson and then this:
"Kevin Moore (official):
Any iOS musicians out there have tips on Audio/MIDI I/O adaptors for lightning port iPads?"
Kevin is making music already/finally? POSSIBLY ON HIS OWN? Or just screwing around? SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT I AM NOT PREPARED FOR THIS
edit: OSI SHARED THE STATUS UPDATE, WHY, IS THIS AN URGENT THING, I'm sorry for the caps this has hit me so suddenly, I have a feeling it is important for some reason.
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Normally I would say that we should wait for other coherent updates to follow, but knowing Kevin, it could be the most importnat musical project of his life and still go for another year without dropping any other status updates about it :lol
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inb4 JR tweets at him with advice on iOS crap.
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What Waste said, but this still gets my juices flowing like Niagara.
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What Waste said, but this still gets my juices flowing like Niagara.
Precisely. I won't be able to sleep much tonight, I can tell.
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Great to hear that he's recording, or at least planning to record something! :) And considering that it's only been one year since FMT and Jim seems to be working on other stuff right now, it has to be Kevin's own project and that makes me go :caffeine:
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And the best thing is that we have absolutely no idea of whatever he might be doing this time. :D
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Exactly! GMH was released 4 years after You Go Now and those two albums sound really different from each other, so I can't wait to see how a 9-year gap has affected his writing (haven't heard Shine or the other soundtrack stuff, but those were written for films anyway). That said, I hope the new album will be better and more song-oriented than GMH, that album still hasn't clicked with me and lacks standout songs.
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Felipe Troncoso You could get Roland's Duo-Capture EX interface. 2 audio I/O + MIDI. All you'd need is Apple's USB to Lightning adapter.
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Kevin Moore (official) Looks like that Roland is audio-only
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I have no idea what this means but I am posting it anyway. I mean, who knows what he might need this for but I just have to overanalyze and go crazy and stuff :D
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Relax, it's just technical stuff! :lol He says that apparently you can't record MIDI with that Roland interface, and he would need that option.
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Relax, it's just technical stuff! :lol He says that apparently you can't record MIDI with that Roland interface, and he would need that option.
But why.
I can't relax, this is important.
I think this is good practice for me when/if he announces a new CKorsomething album, you can tell I'll be a wreck then.
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That's exactly why you shouldn't overreact to little comments like that, save your energy for the big announcement and the album itself! :)
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That's exactly why you shouldn't overreact to little comments like that, save your energy for the big announcement and the album itself! :)
The amount of energy I have for freaking out over new band stuff knows no bounds.
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Haha, you guys make me smile. Hopefully, it means Kev is working on something -- and not just doing another guest appearance on someone's album. I could go for some solo material!
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Haha, you guys make me smile.
A little colony of young hopeful fans, yeah, we're kind of like cute bunnies.
This is me:
(https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/bfa09265e8267bb2761e1af3c6beb6b8/tumblr_mjydjgxVPy1rzjl4ko1_400.jpg)
This is Tio:
(https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/4ebe9d6bfb7f74bee3aacccbf8ff71a4/tumblr_mjyavroONd1ra5xmxo1_500.jpg)
These are wasteland and ?, for no particular reason:
(https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d660f2f2c0ec847f74d892418f2b200f/tumblr_mjy3drFbkm1rb1e8bo1_250.gif)
Et cetera.
I hope no one of importance reads this thread.
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Aww... :heart How about my family's bunny (RIP :'()?
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/482220_477723688963928_1863101775_n.jpg)
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That can be you.
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:lol
Every time this thread updates and I don't see my Lord and Savior making new music, a little part of that bunny in me dies. That's okay though, I'll be an undead bunny soon.
And then...I shall rule...
all of the carrots.
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my Lord and Savior
(https://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/84959143.gif)
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He prolly would scoff at me if I said that to him if I met him and didn't immediately die. Then I would kiss his feetsies.
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@milena: the universal gif strikes back :D
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^Are you the bunny who runs out of nowhere and makes the other one jump, or is it the other way round? :D
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^Are you the bunny who runs out of nowhere and makes the other one jump, or is it the other way round? :D
Actually I ran out of nowhere and made the thread jump, now that I think of it. You are all trapped in one bunny body.
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^Are you the bunny who runs out of nowhere and makes the other one jump, or is it the other way round? :D
Actually I ran out of nowhere and made the thread jump, now that I think of it. You are all trapped in one bunny body.
Kevin could write a song about this. The Fucking Bunny.
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...or maybe I could write a song about The Fucking Cat that once came into our house when the door was open and scared the hell out of our poor bunny who started running as fast as the one in the gif and let out some terrified squeals.
You are all trapped in one bunny body.
TRAPPED INSIDE THIS BUNNY BODYVARIUM
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^Are you the bunny who runs out of nowhere and makes the other one jump, or is it the other way round? :D
Actually I ran out of nowhere and made the thread jump, now that I think of it. You are all trapped in one bunny body.
Kevin could write a song about this. The Fucking Bunny.
And it's eating this f***in carrot.....but I can't get 'em....
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Listening to On the Page and I thought I heard something in the first audio clip about being on acid. Anyone have the transcript for that clip?
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Listening to On the Page and I thought I heard something in the first audio clip about being on acid. Anyone have the transcript for that clip?
I do not have access to my KM masterpost of quotes right now, but the sample is about tripping on acid... I think she says something like "and of course we were on acid, in Houston(orsomething), at a science fiction convention". You can a short sentence about it if you WaybackMachine your way to the Chroma Key site in '98 or something.
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Thanks!
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Houston is recurring in his samples. Just like swimming pool. Is he trying to set us on a treasure hunt? :caffeine:
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Kevin posted this (https://youtu.be/-Wly-zA7Tko?t=2m22s) on his FB page. I wonder how he finds all these random and weird videos... :D Maybe he'll use a sample from that clip in some song?
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Kevin posted this (https://youtu.be/-Wly-zA7Tko?t=2m22s) on his FB page. I wonder how he finds all these random and weird videos... :D Maybe he'll use a sample from that clip in some song?
That's exactly what I was thinking - it could sit in a CK song without a problem.
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Yeah, after all he's used samples like the ones in When You Drive and Human Love before, so maybe it wouldn't be that weird :lol
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Also it's comforting to know I'm not the only person who gets stuck in the weird-as-fuck part of youtube, Kevin apparently does as well :D
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This is the best status update I have seen in my life: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=654357144581859&set=a.262359177114993.89724.211121772238734&type=1 ;D
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:rollin
The best part is if he actually managed to pull it off, I wouldn't complain.
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I know, right? ;D
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A display of humor from Kevin for us to witness! When was the last time, Milena? :o
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A display of humor from Kevin for us to witness! When was the last time, Milena? :o
Tbh that page is just pretty humorous from time to time :lol I love it, it's one of my favorite places on the internet.
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Yeah, I saw that. A world with multiple KevMo's wouldn't be a bad place to live :lol If only he used those clones to help him get a new album out more quickly...
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Anyway, I believe his internet presence has increased as of late, right?
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Well, he has posted twice in the past 2 weeks after 2 months of silence, so yes - not significantly though :P
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Well, he has posted twice in the past 2 weeks after 2 months of silence, so yes - not significantly though :P
But IIRC the update that came 2 months ago broke a 6/7 month long break.
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Well, he has posted twice in the past 2 weeks after 2 months of silence, so yes - not significantly though :P
But IIRC the update that came 2 months ago broke a 6/7 month long break.
Basically after the newest OSI was wrapped he didn't post much.
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Well, he has posted twice in the past 2 weeks after 2 months of silence, so yes - not significantly though :P
But IIRC the update that came 2 months ago broke a 6/7 month long break.
Basically after the newest OSI was wrapped he didn't post much.
Yeah. But then again, there haven't been much news coming from him lately so it's ok if he doesn't post anything.
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Yeah but he just makes my day every time he posts :heart
OKAY I'LL STOP
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I decided to try my setlisting "talent" on Chroma Key. Here's the result:
Get Back In The Car
Another Permanent Address
America The Video
S.O.S.
Colorblind
Hell Mary
Nice To Know
Undertow
When You Drive
Nora
Human Love
Lunar
Sad Sad Movie
Even The Waves
Eve
Astronaut Down
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Mouse (Now Watch What Happens)
Space Dye Vest
On The Page
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Mine is slightly different, due to the fact I tried to keep stuff he 100% wouldn't play (demos and DT stuff) out of it, though I'm not sure he'd even play DAFR and YGN, maybe not even GMH since he's played almost the whole thing already and that's an album you either play the majority of tunes out of or not much (which is why I only have three songs off it)
colorblind
give up
white robe
undertow
even the waves
graveyard mountain home
get back in the car
subway
on the page
mouse (now watch what happen)
astronaut down
america the video
s.o.s
encore:
another permanent address
sad, sad movie
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Mine is slightly different, due to the fact I tried to keep stuff he 100% wouldn't play (demos and DT stuff) out of it, though I'm not sure he'd even play DAFR and YGN, maybe not even GMH since he's played almost the whole thing already and that's an album you either play the majority of tunes out of or not much (which is why I only have three songs off it)
Then what would he play? :lol
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The new album :xbones
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Well, Get Back in the Car was the only pre-GMH song he played at that show in Turkey in 2007 and he seems to be so critical of his past works anyway that it wouldn't surprise me... :P
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Well, Get Back in the Car was the only pre-GMH song he played at that show in Turkey in 2007 and he seems to be so critical of his past works anyway that it wouldn't surprise me... :P
Which is why we were discussing yesterday (or was it today already?) that we need to get in touch with him and get him in touch with the tastes of his fanbase with regard to his past works before he finally hits the stage again. :tup
It would be a deadly crime to keep dafr and ygn out!
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Totally agreed - if he ever ends up touring, someone needs to tell him "listen Kev, we know you are the most unnostalgic person on earth, but some people have waited for 15 years to see you play certain songs live, so could you be kind and acknowledge them?"
Due to the fact that he has performed only one show, seeing KM live would be a special experience in itself, no matter what the setlist is, but he wrote lots of classic songs that people keep discovering as the years go by and it would be a shame if they were completely ignored.
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Yes, but as Milena said, we have first to made him aware in the most tactful way possible that he *has* a fanbase at all :lol
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True; maybe he thinks most of the FB likers are just random DT fans who haven't even heard any of his later stuff, except maybe some OSI? :lol
EDIT: ...and that might actually be possible - I mean, what I said about the likers :-\
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Well, it's undeniable that 99.9% of his fanbase comes from either DT or from Fates Warning through OSI or his collaboration within the band, but that doesn't mean that those people are casual about his solo works. I am a DT fan, but I'm not a "yeah, cool" fan of his solo project as I am with James's or JP's. I consider myself an active fan of him, indipendently of my others fandoms!
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I just realized that you can't post anything on his timeline... I do remember seeing DT-related posts from some people there earlier, but maybe he didn't like that? The recent post where he asked about the recording equipment has also disappeared :huh:
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It could be. Well, it wouldn't be a very smar move if it was so.
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Well I kind of get it. Social media is very good for getting your info out there if you have a page, but not so much for the return information. So posts on timeline are kind of unnecessary? If he has a question for us, he'll ask it. Forums are better for putting that sort of opinion out there, if it's a good forum.
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^Exactly. But at least there weren't any "KVENI MROER INDONESIA PLZ" posts, so I guess the casual fans have been smart enough to realize that he never plays live :lol
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"KVENI MROER INDONESIA PLZ"
Sig'd.
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Second time a quote from me appears in someone's sig! :tup :biggrin:
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Soooo, I was googling some lines of a certain infamous CK song and I found a video and... now watch what happens!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qgk5tXuUA
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I don't think he can be sure he's not crazy.
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I don't think he can be sure he's not crazy.
(https://img843.imageshack.us/img843/6819/nowh.png)
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
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:lol :clap:
The roles in the video are kind of reversed because the guy is eating a fucking dorito and the mouse tries to kill him.
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Listening to On the Page and I thought I heard something in the first audio clip about being on acid. Anyone have the transcript for that clip?
I do not have access to my KM masterpost of quotes right now, but the sample is about tripping on acid... I think she says something like "and of course we were on acid, in Houston(orsomething), at a science fiction convention". You can a short sentence about it if you WaybackMachine your way to the Chroma Key site in '98 or something.
I'm pretty sure it's "And of course we were on acid, in a Hilton, at a science fiction convention." Hilton, of course, being a hotel chain.
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Listening to On the Page and I thought I heard something in the first audio clip about being on acid. Anyone have the transcript for that clip?
I do not have access to my KM masterpost of quotes right now, but the sample is about tripping on acid... I think she says something like "and of course we were on acid, in Houston(orsomething), at a science fiction convention". You can a short sentence about it if you WaybackMachine your way to the Chroma Key site in '98 or something.
I'm pretty sure it's "And of course we were on acid, in a Hilton, at a science fiction convention." Hilton, of course, being a hotel chain.
Yeah, I honestly don't know why I typed Houston, and when wasteland mentioned Houston in his next post, I looked at it all weirded out but didn't question it :lol
/Milenabrain
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I wonder if he holds any sort of day job outside of music. He seems so opposed to the self promotion thing that you really have to be a part of to keep going as a full time musician. Sure, he does other things outside of Chroma Key and OSI, but his projects are so few and far between it makes me wonder how much time he spends on music. It's not like he's spending a lot of (or any) time gigging, either.
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I find it unlikely that he has a full-time job. He may be doing some random work occasionally to get some extra income, but knowing his nomad tendencies it's obvious that he isn't the kind of person who would do the same thing for a long time. Kevin probably spends his time seeing different places, people, etc. and doing whatever he feels like doing.
The recent guest appearances also lead me to believe he's mostly, perhaps completely, dependent on music - I don't think he would do those if he wasn't in need of money. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying he's doing guest appearances just to get some extra bucks, but his mindset is probably "well, there's nothing to lose, I could do this".
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Rumor has it that KM was enrolled in a Florida university 1-2 years ago studying medicine. That was said by a Turkish fan who had some ties to KM when he was there. We know he WAS in Florida, because all of the Shine CDs were mailed from a Florida address two years ago. These days, I have a feeling he's involved in some indian reservations or something of that that. Last year, he posted a number of links and videos of Indian-related items, including a road trip he took to a reservation in South Dakota, and if you look and what he's following on Twitter it's mostly indian stuff. Unfortunately, no one who's conducted an interview with him has come out and asked what he does in all his down time. We'd all love to know!
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Cool, I hadn't heard about the university rumor! His recent fascination with Indians makes me think he may have connections to some Native Americans, although I have no idea whether he has spent time in the reservations since last summer. As you said, we'd love to know where he currently is and what he's been doing, but Kevin probably wouldn't tell us - maybe it's better that way? :lol
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When I ordered Shine last year he emailed me and told me that he put it in the mail. The return address was a PO box in either Indiana or Iowa (forgot which one, but I think it was Indiana). I'm assuming that that's where he lives.
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Knowing Kevin (not literally but you get the point), where he lived last year is probably no indication of where he lives in the present moment.
It would probably feel weird for outsiders to see we're interested in this subject, but when someone moves around a lot, it evokes my curiosity to know where they are, it's simple :D
Also I am obsessing over CK, prep'ing a huge post for this thread and last night I dreamed about somehow logging into a computer which holds dozens of ideas for future CK albums using the password threewaytragedy so my natural curiosity is enhanced by my love for all things Kevin :P :biggrin:
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I'm not sure if I have to be more concerned about your dream or about me immediately sample'ing along upon reading reading:
no indication
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I'm not sure if I have to be more concerned about your dream or about me immediately sample'ing along upon reading reading:
no indication
*itches to get back to the normal computer to play Lunar + Astronaut Down*
WORRIED SHMORRIED, we are infected with a lovely illness :metal
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I'm not sure if I have to be more concerned about your dream or about me immediately sample'ing along upon reading reading:
no indication
And
in the present moment.
:biggrin:
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Anyway, 'scuse the HUUUUUUGE double post, but there was something that caught my attention a few weeks ago that I've just gotten around to writing about now. I was Wikrastinating (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wikrastinating) and looking for non-writers who wrote interesting non-fiction (or at least I think I was, since 90% of my Wikrastinating revolves around music or writers that came out of the left field), and during the clicking of links that followed, I ran into the name of one neurologist Oliver Sacks, and I seemed to remember that name from an excerpt of a KevMo interview that dealt with the origin of Colorblind (the interviewer said there was a possibility that he didn't transcribe it right so I didn't bother looking up the name before). I went through all his books on Wiki and voila, in the entry of "An Anthropologist on Mars" I found this:
Essays:
"The Case of the Colorblind Painter" discusses an accomplished artist who is suddenly struck by cerebral achromatopsia or the inability to perceive color due to brain damage.
One search for "colorblind painter oliver sacks" and I ran into the entire essay that was the origin of Colorblind! Here's the link if you wanna read it in full: https://www.csh.rit.edu/~oguns/school/psychology/Articles/colorblindpainter.pdf
I took the liberty of taking excerpts from it and arranging them for your reading pleasure, and here's what I came up with:
TRIED TO READ THE SIMPLE WRITING BUT THE LETTERS CAME OUT WRONG
Early in March 1986 one of us received the following letter:
I am a rather successful artist just past 65 years of age. On January 2nd of this
year I was driving my car and was hit by a small truck on the passenger side of
my vehicle.
When visiting the emergency room of a local hospital, I was told I had a
concussion. While taking an eye examination, it was discovered that I was unable
to distinguish letters or colors. The letters appeared to be Greek letters. My vision
was such that everything appeared to me as viewing a black and white television
screen.
Within days, I could distinguish letters and my vision became that of an eagle—I
can see a worm wriggling a block away. The sharpness of focus is incredible.
BUT—I
AM
ABSOLUTELY
COLOR
BLIND.
I have visited ophthalmologists who know nothing about this colorblind business.
I have visited neurologists, to no avail. Under hypnosis I still can't distinguish
colors. I have been involved in all kinds of tests. You name it.
My brown dog is dark grey. Tomato juice is black. Color TV is a hodge-podge.
Etc., etc
Kevin: [...]Well, the lyrics are based on a story I read by, I can’t remember his name, Oliver Sacks (Note: this could quite possibly not be the author’s name... the fidelity of the tape kind of gives out as Kevin is mentioning the author’s name). Anyway it’s the true story of a guy, an artist, who gets into a car accident and loses the ability to see colour. So, he starts painting in black and white. So, yeah, it’s sort of based on that.
2112: As a musician, was that story able to affect you on an artistic level? Is that what spawned the lyrics?
Kevin: I don’t know if it affected me on an artistic level. It affected me on a human level, I think. It’s about an artist, I don’t know the name of the artist, that was supposedly known for his work with colour. That’s what his calling-card was.
Total colorblindness caused by brain damage, so-called acquired cerebral achromatopsia,
though described by Robert Boyle as much as three centuries ago, remains a rare, intriguing,
and important condition. It is important because (like all neural dissolutions and destructions) it
can reveal to us the mechanisms of neural construction, specifically how the brain constructs
color. Doubly intriguing is its occurrence in an artist, a painter in whose life color has been of
primary importance, and who can directly paint as well as describe what has befallen him, and
thus convey the full strangeness, distress, and reality of the condition.
When we first saw him, on April 13, 1986, Jonathan I. was a tall, gaunt man, showing obvious
recent weight loss. He spoke intelligently and well, both analytically and vividly, but in a soft
and rather lifeless voice. He rarely smiled; he was manifestly depressed. We got a sense of
inner pain, fear, and tension, held in with difficulty beneath his civilized discourse.
We learned that his accident had been accompanied by a transient amnesia. He had been able,
evidently, to give a clear account of himself and his accident to the police at the time it
happened, late on the afternoon of January 2. He then went to his studio to see someone
interested in his work but cut short this meeting because of a steadily mounting headache.
Arriving home, he complained to his wife of having a headache and feeling confused, but
made no mention of the accident. He then fell into a long, almost stuporous sleep. It was only
the next morning, when his wife saw the side of the car stove in, that she asked him what had
happened. When she got no clear answer ("I don't know. Maybe somebody backed into it")
she knew that something serious must have happened.
Mr. I. then drove off to his studio, and found on his desk a carbon copy of the police accident
report. He had had an accident, then, but somehow, bizarrely, had lost his memory of it.
Perhaps the report would jolt his memory. But lifting it up, he could make nothing of it. He
saw print of different sizes and types, all clearly in focus, but it looked like "Greek" or
"Hebrew" to him. A magnifying glass did not help; it simply became large "Greek" or "Hebrew." (This alexia, or inability to read, was still present five days later, but then apparently disappeared.)
Feeling now that he must have suffered a stroke or some sort of brain damage from the
accident, Jonathan I. phoned his doctor, who arranged for him to be seen and tested at a local
hospital. Although, as his original letter indicates, difficulties in distinguishing colors were
detected at this time, in addition to his gross alexia, he had no subjective sense of the alteration
of colors until the next day.
That day he decided to go to work again. It seemed to him as if he were driving in a fog, even
though he knew it to be a bright and sunny morning. Everything seemed misty, bleached,
grayish, indistinct. His bewilderment and fear now became a feeling of horror. He was flagged
down by the police close to his studio: he had gone through two red lights, they said. Did he
realize this? No, he said, he was not aware of having passed through any lights. They asked
him to get out of the car. Finding him sober, but apparently bewildered and ill, they gave him a
ticket and advised him to seek medical advice.
Mr. I. arrived at his studio with relief, expecting that the horrible mist would be gone, that
everything would be clear again. But as soon as he entered, he found his entire studio, which
was hung with brilliantly colored paintings (see illustration of his pre-accident work on page
33), now utterly gray and void of color. His canvases, the abstract color paintings he was
known for, all were grayish or black and white, unintelligible. Now to horror there was added
despair: even his art was without meaning, and he could no longer imagine how to go on.
MAYBE I'M PARANOID, YEAH THAT'S MY PROBLEM
YOU ALMOST HAVE TO BE WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE ME
Mr. I. could hardly bear the changed appearances of people ("like animated gray statues") any
more than he could bear his own changed appearance in the mirror: he shunned social
intercourse and found sexual intercourse impossible. He saw people's flesh, his wife's flesh, his
own flesh, as an abhorrent gray; "flesh-colored" now appeared "rat-colored" to him. This was
so even when he closed his eyes, for his preternaturally vivid ("eidetic") visual imagery was
preserved but now without color, and forced on him images, forced him to "see" but see
internally with the wrongness of his achromatopsia. He found foods disgusting in their grayish,
dead appearance and had to close his eyes to eat. But this did not help very much, for the
mental image of a tomato was as black as its appearance.
PANTONE MEMORY, GRAYSCALE EYES
MUST BE 290 BLUE ON THE WATER
IT'S GRAY TO ME, 3 CV IS ALL I SEE
He knew the colors of everything, with an extraordinary exactness (he could give not only the
names but the "numbers" of colors as these were listed in a Pantone chart of hues he had used
for many years). He could describe the green of Van Gogh's billiard table in this way with
exactitude. He knew all the colors, but could no longer see them, either when he looked or in
his mind's eye, his imagination or memory.
GIVE ME BACK MY BLUE, OTHER COLORS FADE ANYWAY
In some sense, it seemed, he was "seeing" the blue, at least seeing something about it, although (to use the current word) he could not, apparently, "process" this internally to create the cerebral or mental construct of "color."
We first asked Jonathan I. about a shelf of notebooks—blue, red, and black—by the desk.
He instantly picked out the blue ones (a bright medium blue to normal eyes)—"they're pale"
The blue jays were brilliant no longer; their
blue, curiously, was now seen as pale gray. This odd pallor replaced even the most intense
blues. He could no longer see the clouds in the sky, their whiteness, or off-whiteness as he saw
them, being scarcely distinguishable from the azure, which was bleached, for him, to a pale
gray.
TOO MUCH RED WILL GO RIGHT TO YOUR HEAD
This was seeing the sunrise one morning, the blazing reds all turned into black:
"The sun rose like a bomb, like some enormous nuclear explosion," he said later. "Had anyone
seen a sunrise like this before?"
the red and the black were indistinguishable—both, for him, were "dead black."
Presented with a magazine photograph containing a complex, predominantly red, multiple
exposure, showing dozens of figures — some red-lit, some white-lit—he missed all the red-lit
figures and faces, and saw only darkness with occasional hands and half-faces
WHERE'D ALL THE COLOR GO ON MY RADIO
Music, curiously, was impaired for him too, because he had previously (like Scriabin and
others) had an extremely intense synesthesia, so that different tones had immediately been
translated into color, and he experienced all music simultaneously as a rich tumult of inner
colors. With the loss of his ability to generate colors, he lost this ability as well—his internal
"color-organ" was out of action, and now he heard music with no visual accompaniment; this,
for him, was music with its essential chromatic counterpart missing, music now radically
impoverished.
GREEN CAN ONLY HOLD YOU IN THE GARDEN
The intense sorrow that was so characteristic at first, as he sat for hours before his (to him) black lawn, desperately trying to
perceive or imagine it as green, has disappeared [...]
ON A BEACH 20 YARDS FROM THE ROADSIDE
BACK AGAIN, 6 AM, FAR FROM SLEEP
In the past few months Mr. I. has been changing his habits and behavior—"becoming a
night-person," in his own words. He has taken to roving about a great deal, exploring other
cities, other places, but only at night. He drives, at random, to Boston, Baltimore, or small
towns and villages, arriving at dusk, and then wandering about the streets for half the night,
occasionally talking to a fellow walker, occasionally going into little diners: "Everything in
diners is different at night, at least if it has windows. The darkness comes into the place, and
no amount of light can change it. They are transformed into night places. I love the nighttime,"
Mr. I. says. "I often wonder about people who work at night. They never see the sunlight.
They prefer it.... It's a different world: there's a lot of space—you're not hemmed in by streets,
by people.... It's a whole new world. Gradually I am becoming a night person. At one time I
felt kindly toward color, very happy about it. In the beginning, I felt very bad, losing it. Now I
don't even know it exists—it's not even a phantom." (Mr. I. never had "phantom" colors, as
amputees may have phantom limbs, and the deafened "phantasmal" voices and music; for the
cerebral cortex is needed even to make a phantom.)
Mr. I., when he is not traveling, gets up earlier and earlier, to work in the night, to relish the
night. He feels that in the night world (as he calls it) he is the equal, or the superior, of
"normal" people: "I feel better because I know then that I'm not a freak...and I have developed
acute night vision, it's amazing what I see—I can read license plates at night from four blocks
away. You couldn't see it from a block away." [...]
Richard Gregory, speaking of those who have never had color vision (owing to absence of
cones, or normal cone function, in their eyes) said, "They live in a scotopic world, in a world
of bright moonlight," and this now seems to be the only world that Mr. I. can bear. Our
world—our "photopic" world, dazzlingly bright and colored—must appear discordant and
painful to an achromatope (whether he has been born colorblind, like Gregory's subjects, or
become colorblind, like Mr. I.); given this, along with an enhanced, compensatory sensitivity
to the nocturnal and scotopic, it is not surprising, it is perhaps inevitable, that achromatopes
should be drawn to the only world in which they feel at ease and at home—and that they
should, like the loris and the potto, the big-eyed primates that only emerge and hunt at night,
turn wholly, or as much as they can, to becoming night creatures in a night world.
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Wow, awesome find! :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
"He saw people's flesh, his wife's flesh, his own flesh" also makes me think of the "X-ray eyes" bit in the final chorus.
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I literaly have no words. Thank you.
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Wow, cool find! Coincidentally, I'm in the middle of reading Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain! I was actually going to look into reading more of his stuff, so I guess I'll go with The Anthropologist on Mars next!
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I literaly have no words. Thank you.
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It is from '95, forgot to mention that.
When you strip the story down, one of the elements you can find is that of the artist who suddenly finds himself in a requirement to express himself in a fundamentally different way and to function differently. So that is thread common with the inception of Chroma Key.
Also, I am now completely positive that Watercolor and Chromakey-the-song have their origin in similar stories of people who have extraordinary abilities/disabilities and their unusual consequences - Watercolor being perhaps tied to synestesia ("sounds like watercolor"), some sort of a disfunctional memory and disconnection of the sense of space ("cellar door leads to the attic", "and I can't recall a single word I said"), and also some unusual ties to morning, the "sunny side", the world of video/movies and the sense of sound late at night, being "drowned by it", but also being willing to let it go on - "anything TO drown me". "it's not like I can't stop, pull back the playback in my head". Chromakey has a similar theme, all tied to the visual sense of memories, as far as I could remember, but also having it messed up, not knowing what happened and being confused.
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For those who didn't know yet, the sample in When You Drive was taken from this audiobook: "The Present Moment: A Retreat on the Practice of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh (https://www.amazon.com/dp/159179126X)
What puzzles me is that the publication date listed is November 2003, but this version may be a reissue. Besides, I remember Kevin said he heard the recording on the radio.
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Yup, he heard it on the radio, and the female voice singing the chorus comes from the same recording. Nice find!
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Yeah, the female voice was modified a bit:
5. WHEN YOU DRIVE
Heard a recording of a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk (Thich Nhat Hanh) on the radio one night, speaking about how to meditate at a red light. Really liked his voice, and the subject was a little surreal. Thought it would sit well in a song. The female voice was from the same recording - we stretched her out and changed the key on the computer, and she sings the chorus.
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Looks like this (https://www.amazon.com/The-Present-Moment/dp/B0044CIZX4) is the original version of the audio book - the year of release is 1994. You can hear a sample here (https://www.learnoutloud.com/Audio-Books/Self-Development/Spirituality/The-Present-Moment/5267) and at the very end of it the Tibetian guy starts talking. Anyway, the description in the latter link made me smile:
Through easy-to-follow exercises, you will learn a treasury of meditations to help you walk, breathe, communicate — even cope with traffic — more deeply and consciously.
BTW, Sister Chan Khong is mentioned as a co-author of the book in both links. I wonder if she's the one humming/singing...
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omgkevwillmakedanudarksideofdamoon
:neverusethis:
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Probably a reference to the U.S. Government's electronic surveillance program that's been in the news this week. It's called Prism, and it's a very OSI type of topic. Maybe he'll use it as inspiration for his upcoming music, if there is any!
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OSI - Prism
Sounds great as a title!
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Some political lyrics could be cool, although I prefer the more personal approach Kevin usually has.
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Take four minutes out of your day and play Nora, as it is very appropriate to do today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
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I just listened to Dead Air for Radios for the first time the other day. Amazing album,
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Still his best material IMO. That album blew my doors off on my first listen as well. Found it at a Borders right after it was first released.
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Off topic, but I miss Borders. :sad:
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Off topic, but I miss Borders. :sad:
Oh yeah...so much. I was often surprised at the selection. I could literally spend HOURS in the CD section.
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Off topic, but I miss Borders. :sad:
Oh yeah...so much. I was often surprised at the selection. I could literally spend HOURS in the CD section.
It was dangerous lunchtime loitering... :police:
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It's nice to know that there are more people who were blown away by DAFR on the first listen already :biggrin: I wish I had it on CD :sadpanda:
Take four minutes out of your day and play Nora, as it is very appropriate to do today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
Will do!
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It's nice to know that there are more people who were blown away by DAFR on the first listen already :biggrin: I wish I had it on CD :sadpanda:
Take four minutes out of your day and play Nora, as it is very appropriate to do today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
Will do!
I Forgot where I got the cd, I thinkit was on amazon.I
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It's nice to know that there are more people who were blown away by DAFR on the first listen already :biggrin: I wish I had it on CD :sadpanda:
Take four minutes out of your day and play Nora, as it is very appropriate to do today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
Will do!
I downloaded my copy from Amazon.com :)
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Just listened to Hell Mary. Freaked the shit out of me. :|
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Just listened to Hell Mary. Freaked the shit out of me. :|
Oh.
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It's kinda freaky to listen to once in awhile....but for me, that album ends after Mouse...
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What's the deal with that track anyway? Who's doing the speaking? Is it a sample from some movie?
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What's the deal with that track anyway? Who's doing the speaking? Is it a sample from some movie?
No, it's a voice bot reading the transcript of a vision/premonition/profecy of the apocalypse.
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That's cool. A transcript by Kevin Moore?
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That's cool. A transcript by Kevin Moore?
I don't think so, but I'm not sure, of course. You will have to wait until Milena comes online, which means most likely in a couple of hours. She will provide you with any explaination (supported by multiple sources and documents) you need. :tup
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Excellent. I'll look forward to reading that when I wake up tomorrow morning. :tup
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The explanation is on wiki...but it's too long to type out on my tablet.
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Yeah, it's on Wikipedia:
The speech synthesizer in "Hell Mary" recites a paragraph from the Bayside prophecies by Veronica Lueken.[4] Moore has stated that "["Hell Mary"] has something to do with the end of the world, I think. And hallucinogenic visions thereof as experienced by a computer"
And yes, the track is creepy as fuck :|
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Yup that's it. I found the actual transcript in text form once but I don't know do I have it among my documents... either way, I'll look it up again :biggrin:
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Yeah, it's on Wikipedia:
The speech synthesizer in "Hell Mary" recites a paragraph from the Bayside prophecies by Veronica Lueken.[4] Moore has stated that "["Hell Mary"] has something to do with the end of the world, I think. And hallucinogenic visions thereof as experienced by a computer"
And yes, the track is creepy as fuck :|
Ah, last time I checked wiki it just had a couple sentences about the album and the tracklist. Cool.
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Yup that's it. I found the actual transcript in text form once but I don't know do I have it among my documents... either way, I'll look it up again :biggrin:
Is it this (https://www.artist-shop.com/irc/kmoore.htm)? It was mentioned as the source for Kevin's comment. I still remember how I laughed at "Fight Good was taken?" when I read it for the first time :lol
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Yup that's it. I found the actual transcript in text form once but I don't know do I have it among my documents... either way, I'll look it up again :biggrin:
Is it this (https://www.artist-shop.com/irc/kmoore.htm)? It was mentioned as the source for Kevin's comment. I still remember how I laughed at "Fight Good was taken?" when I read it for the first time :lol
No, the actual transcript of the part in Hell Mary (I think it's among sources in Wiki now, even). Yeah that's one great interview/chat session... "quit your job today!" :biggrin:
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No, the actual transcript of the part in Hell Mary (I think it's among sources in Wiki now, even).
Yeah, it is: https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/Messages/bm731224.htm
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Good job to whoever put that in there!
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So, it's basically the description of a meteor shower with multiple collisions resulting from the breakup of an asteroid in the upper atmosphere? It fits quite well.
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So I read further and it turns out that this is some kind of religious story... WTF? :lol
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It reminded me of the last track from Lateralus.
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It's kinda freaky to listen to once in awhile....but for me, that album ends after Mouse...
Same here.
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Somebody in my neighborhood seems to be a Chroma Key fan :lol
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I saw the link on Kevin's FB page and downloaded Shine. I'll listen to it immediately! :caffeine:
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Somebody in my neighborhood seems to be a Chroma Key fan :lol
Discolor that picture, change the word to the correct spelling and you get a perfect album cover for Kevin's next!
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As Jim Matheos will now be busy with Fates Warning, I suppose a new OSI album will not be released soon. So, maybe a new CK album will happen? ::)
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Just listened to Hell Mary. Freaked the shit out of me. :|
Oh.
:lol
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I saw the link on Kevin's FB page and downloaded Shine. I'll listen to it immediately! :caffeine:
I still can't brave to get that and listen to it :biggrin:
As Jim Matheos will now be busy with Fates Warning, I suppose a new OSI album will not be released soon. So, maybe a new CK album will happen? ::)
Yeah. I'm wondering what Steve Tushar's been doing lately, I listened to this and it just blew my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLoiP0qfBns it's been more than ten years since Steve and Kev did an album together and I have the feeling it would be the best thing ever.
Also look out for the Lie remix on that youtube channel, it's awesome.
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I saw the link on Kevin's FB page and downloaded Shine. I'll listen to it immediately! :caffeine:
I still can't brave to get that and listen to it :biggrin:
You should, it's wonderful :heart There are much worse ways to spend 10 bucks ;)
I can't listen to the song in your link right now, but the Lie remix is cool indeed.
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https://www.deadrhetoric.com/features/fates-warning-quite-a-bit-left-to-say/2/
Dead Rhetoric: Where are you going lyrically with “O, Chloroform?”
Alder: That’s a funny one. It’s Kevin Moore’s lyrics. Go back to the Arch/Matheos thing, which at one point were supposed to be the songs for the new Fates Warning album but I didn’t work on them as much as I should, Kevin, Jim, and myself were working on a song, one of which ended up on the Arch/Matheos record. He had written lyrics for that and they were unused, and when we were doing this song, I had my melody, and Jim said, “What about Kevin’s lyrics?” He gave them to me, and the melody was put together and it fit perfectly. It took some weight off my back. It’s such a cool song, but I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about.
Dead Rhetoric: It’s an unconventional song title, even for Fates Warning.
Alder: I know what you mean. I know what chloroform is, but I don’t know what he’s talking about [laughs]. I should ask him, and every time I ask Jim, he tells me to ask Kevin, but good luck finding him.
Dead Rhetoric: Where is he? In Turkey still?
Alder: He’s in America now; he’s going to be a doctor. He’s in his third year of medical school.
:o
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https://www.deadrhetoric.com/features/fates-warning-quite-a-bit-left-to-say/2/
Dead Rhetoric: Where are you going lyrically with “O, Chloroform?”
Alder: That’s a funny one. It’s Kevin Moore’s lyrics. Go back to the Arch/Matheos thing, which at one point were supposed to be the songs for the new Fates Warning album but I didn’t work on them as much as I should, Kevin, Jim, and myself were working on a song, one of which ended up on the Arch/Matheos record. He had written lyrics for that and they were unused, and when we were doing this song, I had my melody, and Jim said, “What about Kevin’s lyrics?” He gave them to me, and the melody was put together and it fit perfectly. It took some weight off my back. It’s such a cool song, but I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about.
Dead Rhetoric: It’s an unconventional song title, even for Fates Warning.
Alder: I know what you mean. I know what chloroform is, but I don’t know what he’s talking about [laughs]. I should ask him, and every time I ask Jim, he tells me to ask Kevin, but good luck finding him.
Dead Rhetoric: Where is he? In Turkey still?
Alder: He’s in America now; he’s going to be a doctor. He’s in his third year of medical school.
:o
We knew he was in medical school, but I had no idea he kept up with it. That's... beautiful. Really. THANKS RAY FOR THE FACTS
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Although I'm kind of sad that this will probably slow down the possible production of another CK album and make the chances of an OSI tour even smaller, it's great that he's found something to do. Hopefully he won't have too many crazy DT fans as his patients :lol
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Someone posted this in a chroma key group on facebook. Just wanted to share:
There's been speculation that he was in med school, but this is the first confirmation of it, as far as i know. Pretty cool. One of my Chroma Key friends actually searched online and found a pic of Kevin at school from last year. He's quite older than the other students, but you gotta respect him following his passion. Hope he still finds time to release music here and there. He such a talented guy.
*snip*
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Wow, what a cool find! He does stand out indeed :D
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Good for kevin. I think it's admirable. He'll be successful in whatever he does.
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No shit!? That's incredible. What an amazing man. Bwahaha, yeah those little bastards probably don't know that there's a musical genius standing behind them. GAHH! That would be so hilariously awesome. OH SHIT I THOUGHT THIS YEAR WAS GONNA SUCK BUT KEVIN MOORE! There might be a person or two that knows of him, but I doubt that in that little group that there's any hardcore CK/OSI/Moore fans.
...and here I am just delving back into the madness of old Moore works. :heart :millahhhh :'( If he's truly going all the way with this medical deal, he might not even create a major piece of music again...
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I'm speechless. How come I knew nothing about him being in med school? That's really all kind of great. What a great person :smiley:
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Kevin Moore with a patient he just operated on.
"And you'll never be open again"
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Other than the fact that they are polar opposite personalities...this reminds me a little bit of when David Lee Roth became an EMP.
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Other than the fact that they are polar opposite personalities...this reminds me a little bit of when David Lee Roth became an EMP.
ElectroMagnetic Pulse? ???
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Kevin Moore with a patient he just operated on.
"And you'll never be open again"
:rollin :rollin
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OMG!!!! :tup
One word: MYTH. :hefdaddy
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Other than the fact that they are polar opposite personalities...this reminds me a little bit of when David Lee Roth became an EMP.
ElectroMagnetic Pulse? ???
My bad....EMT. (Emergency Medical Technician) Basically, an ambulance medic.
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A video description of Chaos Venture 1.0, a "space metal" album released tomorrow by Italian band Chaos Venture that features Kevin Moore on the track titled "Abduction."
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NcO0SYesJk
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*snip*
Ok seriously, Kevin. Not even a smile for the fucking photo?!! :lol
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Oh come on, we've seen him smiling, some people just don't like smiling for pictures in general :laugh:
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Oh come on, we've seen him smiling, some people just don't like smiling for pictures in general :laugh:
Like our :zydar:
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Wow, I had no idea he was in med school.
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Oh come on, we've seen him smiling, some people just don't like smiling for pictures in general :laugh:
Like our :zydar:
Yeah, even I smile more than him :lol
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Cool pic. Thanks for posting.
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There's been speculation that he was in med school, but this is the first confirmation of it, as far as i know. Pretty cool. One of my Chroma Key friends actually searched online after hearing this and found a pic of Kevin at school from last year. He's quite older than the other students, but you gotta respect him following his passion. Hope he still finds time to release music here and there. He such a talented guy.
*snip*
Holy crap! I had speculated that he was living in Iowa because it seemed so odd to record the latest OSI here unless there was a connection. Also, the return address when I bought his solo album Shine was Des Moines. I did a bit of searching myself but came up empty handed. This whole freakin' time he was living 2 and 1/2 hours from me. On one of the many occasions I would head to Des Moines, I should have invited him to get some BBQ at Jethros.
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Ok, we tracked down Kevin Moore, the universe is complete now. Let's give him a couple years to relocate before we start the next hunt :lol
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Maybe there's should be a "Where's Kevin?" website?
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Weird, maybe he'll be my doc someday.
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Seeing Kevin's post about the Shine digipaks made me think I could've waited a bit more before buying the download version :-\ Oh well...
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Anyone going to the Joilet, IL, show for Fates Warning on Nov. 15? That's the closest one to Kevin's current whereabouts. He might pop in to see Jim, Ray and Joey.
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Hey Mebert, no matter how many times I watch it, your Hell Mary video gives me chills. Good job.
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Hey Mebert, no matter how many times I watch it, your Hell Mary video gives me chills. Good job.
Thanks, but it's not mine! Kevin created it and released it on his Chroma Key website, I believe, back in the late 1990s after Dead Air For Radios was released. My friend Phil, a fellow huge CK fan, saved it on his hard drive for many years and passed it along to me at some point.
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Anyone going to the Joilet, IL, show for Fates Warning on Nov. 15? That's the closest one to Kevin's current whereabouts. He might pop in to see Jim, Ray and Joey.
I'll be there. That thought definitely crossed my mind.
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If I had a chance I would definitely go. I would love to shake hands with Kevin, or even just wave at him in the distance, or even discretely watch and thoughtfully smile. :)
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If you can you should stalk him politely and when he walks out for a smoke or coffee you walk past him, silently whistling the piano theme from SDV, casually, and just ignore him and move on. And never bother him again :P
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If you can you should stalk him politely and when he walks out for a smoke or coffee you walk past him, silently whistling the piano theme from SDV, casually, and just ignore him and move on. And never bother him again :P
Brilliant. :lol
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Kevin in selling some cassette tape versions of the first chroma key demo tape. They are probably all gone by now. Check his facebook page for the link.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/200988849460
I had no idea there had been CK T-shirts available at some point :eek
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Just bought the colorblind CD single from him. I downloaded it a while back thinking I would never find a hard copy so I was extremely happy that I just happened to be on facebook when he posted the sale. Within 10 minutes, all 8 copies had been sold.
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Just bought the colorblind CD single from him. I downloaded it a while back thinking I would never find a hard copy so I was extremely happy that I just happened to be on facebook when he posted the sale. Within 10 minutes, all 8 copies had been sold.
I'm pretty sure I have an autographed copy of one of these when it was originally released, but it doesn't seem to be with the rest of the Kevin related CDs (Oh..wait. it's sandwiched in the middle of Dead Air For Radios and You Go Now...hard to see.)
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/200988849460
I had no idea there had been CK T-shirts available at some point :eek
Yeah! I've had one in my drawer for about 15 years now and have never worn it. I'm curious how much it will go for when the auction is complete.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/200988849460
I had no idea there had been CK T-shirts available at some point :eek
Yeah! I've had one in my drawer for about 15 years now and have never worn it. I'm curious how much it will go for when the auction is complete.
Are you serious.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/200988849460
I had no idea there had been CK T-shirts available at some point :eek
Yeah! I've had one in my drawer for about 15 years now and have never worn it. I'm curious how much it will go for when the auction is complete.
Are you serious.
Collectors... :D
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This isn't exactly a new intie, but I've never seen Steven Wilson acknowledge Kevin before: https://www.discordmagazine.com/steven-wilson-the-definitive-interview/
In terms of collaborations, I would think it would be very interesting to have you and Kevin Moore (OSI, Chroma Key, former Dream Theater keyboardist) collaborate on something
I’ve only know Kevin quite peripherally, I’ve only heard the album I worked on him with and I remember that I enjoyed working on him on that first record. I love his voice, which is why I didn’t understand why he wanted me to sing on “Shutdown” *laughs*. He is obviously a very creative musician.
Yeah and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree drummer) worked with him on the last two records, they’re pretty decent
Oh yeah I remember seeing that, I should check them out.
A collaboration between SW and KM would be awesome :o On the other hand, I think Kevin might feel more comfortable making another OSI album with Jim or working alone than starting a new project with someone else.
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Kevin, Jim, Gavin, Steven and Anneke has been my dream line up for a few years now. No idea how they'd make it work but it's nice to imagine it once in a while.
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I'd love to see kevin collaborate with some other well-known prog musicians, instead of the lesser-known artists he's been making guest appearance with recently.
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I wonder how many prog musicians he'd actually be interested in working with, though?
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Kevin Moore + Steven Wilson?
I'd die
of depressing music
but I'd die happy
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Kevin Moore + Steven Wilson?
I'd die
of depressing music
but I'd die happy
Pretty much this :lol
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Throw Roger fucking Waters in and instant erection
Depressed erection.
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I'd die too. Choking on my own vomit. :neverusethis:
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Kev just posted this on Facebook. Not entirely sure what it means.
(https://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag94/ShadowNinja38/kevmo_zpsdd0a9230.jpg)
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OHHHHH SHIT!
This looks like it might be a remaster and/or re-release of Kev's amazing Memory Hole album. It's a whole lot of samples, ambiance, and awesomeness. Hmmm...very interesting.
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Interesting, I haven't heard that one before. Hopefully this'll give me a chance to pick it up. :D
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Yeah, I'm very interested in what'll be happening with this... It's a fairly old release so I'm guessing it may just be a re-release, but that would still be awesome considering my copy is very damaged and skips a lot.. I've got it digitally but...with people/bands like Kev, I love to still have the hard copies, even if I still use my iPhone for music mostly.
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Yeah, definitely. I only go digital if it's my last option.
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Kevin recently started a Bandcamp page where you can buy Shine and he said he may add some older stuff there in the future, so maybe this means Memory Hole will be available soon. I haven't heard that release, but I'm definitely interested in it!
BTW, does anyone else think the Tumblr blog, Bandcamp page and the sale of various CK stuff may be a sign of something new coming up? :caffeine:
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Kevin recently started a Bandcamp page where you can buy Shine and he said he may add some older stuff there in the future, so maybe this means Memory Hole will be available soon. I haven't heard that release, but I'm definitely interested in it!
BTW, does anyone else think the Tumblr blog, Bandcamp page and the sale of various CK stuff may be a sign of something new coming up? :caffeine:
Memory Hole is on his Bandcamp right now! You can stream the first five tracks and see if it's your thing.
And yeah, I do think so. Funny thing about his Tumblr blog, there's a tiny colony of KM fans on Tumblr, and none of us are reblogging what he posts so far because we're too starry-eyed to interact with the blog :rollin
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I didn't realize it was there already, thanks!
I'm on the second track and I have a feeling this is not for me :lol
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Kev just posted this on Facebook. Not entirely sure what it means.
Does anybody really know what anything he posts means?
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Kev just posted this on Facebook. Not entirely sure what it means.
Does anybody really know what anything he posts means?
Usually we at least have an idea :biggrin:
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The Tumblr blog is pretty unusual. I don't use Tumblr, but his posts are all over the place, lol. I wish he would be more direct sometimes and less enigmatic. But I guess then he wouldn't be Kevin Moore.
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Yes indeedy. I've never seen it since I don't do social media but I can imagine his posts are mostly for fun. It's interesting that he'd randomly post a cover for an obscure album of his past though. Maybe he just wanted to get it out there a bit moore? Even for Moore fans, Memory Hole is an oddity, but I myself love it, but it did take me a while to get into it; though once I did I was enamored. I really hope there's something more to it but I think it may just be him doing...his thing and just putting it out in cyberspace.
I'm guessing he's still knee-deep in medical teachings.
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Kevin wouldn't be Kevin without weirdness :D
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It's not that unusual for Tumblr, and it's not that different from his Facebook page.
What's a little worse than that is that he shares a name with a porn photographer, so his "tag" is both full of music posts and full of... smile. I hope he doesn't try to look himself up on Tumblr :lol
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Have you guys watched any of the videos he posted (that actually had a narrative as opposed to the weird squirrel stuff). Very interesting stuff from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Also an interesting clip from the women's prison here in Iowa.
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Weird squirrel stuff??
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Weird squirrel stuff??
https://bigdeadned.tumblr.com/post/73811623151
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:lol
There once was a squirrel named Kevin Moore. May he rest in peace.
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Dead Air for Radios on Bandcamp! (https://kevinmoore.bandcamp.com/album/dead-air-for-radios)
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I forgot how much I love Memory Hole. I haven't listened to it since I had it on my parents dinosaur computer.
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Dead Air for Radios on Bandcamp! (https://kevinmoore.bandcamp.com/album/dead-air-for-radios)
Aw man but all I want is DAFR on a CD.
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Well, there's one on Amazon for $96, if you're interested.
:sad:
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Dead Air for Radios on Bandcamp! (https://kevinmoore.bandcamp.com/album/dead-air-for-radios)
Aw man but all I want is DAFR on a CD.
buy flac. burn. profit.
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It's just not the same. Plus you don't get the booklet and liner notes.
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Dead Air for Radios on Bandcamp! (https://kevinmoore.bandcamp.com/album/dead-air-for-radios)
Aw man but all I want is DAFR on a CD.
Same here, but I know there'll never be a CD reissue :sadpanda: Anyway, I'll certainly buy this digital version - the price isn't bad, Kevin gets money (which he deserves - having to dl the first 2 CK albums not-so-legally made me feel so guilty :blush) and the files are of high quality.
It's only a matter of time until YGN is on Bandcamp, but hopefully Music Meant to Be Heard/This is a Recording will be made available as well, because I haven't listened to those songs that much.
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Check back on Amazon every now and then. I got lucky and got DAFR used for $15.
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Well, there's one on Amazon for $96, if you're interested.
:sad:
Yikes! I didn't know it was hard to find, or I would have been taking better care of my copy.
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I had my DAFR cd in my car for a few years in one of those binders that hold a few dozen CDs. For some reason, I like to include the album booklet in the binder, because some CDs don't have the band name written on them -- and DAFR was one of them. I just rearranged the binder this weekend and noticed that the DAFR booklet pages were all warped and stuck together from the cold. I was so sad, but it's my fault.
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I recently listened to the Colorblind single on Spotify. I'm not sure whether I should find it amusing that a not-so-commercial artist like Kevin made radio edits of his songs, or lament that those edits probably never got played on the radio. I'm gravitating towards the latter option... :sadpanda:
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I've actually heard Colorblind a couple times on the radio. One wasn't so surprising given that it was a prog dedicated station (who also play a shitload of old DT) while I was at LSU. The other was a random local rock station while driving through Gulf Shores. :lol
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Well, there's one on Amazon for $96, if you're interested.
:sad:
Used for 19...
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I've actually heard Colorblind a couple times on the radio. One wasn't so surprising given that it was a prog dedicated station (who also play a shitload of old DT) while I was at LSU. The other was a random local rock station while driving through Gulf Shores. :lol
Really? That's awesome! Maybe releasing that single wasn't in vain after all :lol
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Beirut-based progressive metal musician Amadeus Award posted premix today of a new track featuring Kevin Moore and Russell Allen.
Link: https://soundcloud.com/amadeusawad/the-book-of-gates-full-song
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Oh wow, I like! I never liked Allen's voice much, but he sounds pretty good in this song and it fits. Very interesting keyboard work from god. It's stuff like this though that really makes me wish he'd release more solo work. I've been on a major CK kick recently too. :sadpanda: :millahhhh
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Great, but very much in need of a more powerful mix (I'm sure they'll fix it, as it's just a demo now).
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Oh god, I don't think I can get through this whole thing :|
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Is the name of the guitar player Hey Lookat Me? Some nice moments and melodies, ruined by blatantly wanking that sounds like shit.
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There are barely any keyboards in that song :P
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Song's all right, but there's really not a lot of KevMo there. Or Amanda. This should be rectified.
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There will be an entire EP, so I'll judge it from there.
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I couldn't get through half that song, let alone an entire EP :lol
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Is the name of the guitar player Hey Lookat Me? Some nice moments and melodies, ruined by blatantly wanking that sounds like shit.
Lol, seriously. Well, it's not as if the music was particularly interesting to begin with, so...
I couldn't get through half that song, let alone an entire EP :lol
Yup.
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The wankery doesn't bother me as much as the total mediocrity of the song... The moment it started I thought it sounded like something I'd heard before.
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. Something I'd heard before and hated.
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Kevin is appearing on Aquiles Priester's upcoming solo album.
Link: https://aquilespriester.com/site/first-instrumental-album-of-aquiles-priester-and-gustavo-carmo-the-first/
The first solo album of the drummer Aquiles Priester and the guitarist Gustavo Carmo, will be mixed and mastered by Adair Daufembach at Daufembach Studio in São Paulo. Produced by them both, it was recorded over 2013 and 2014.
Drums were recorded at Mr. Som in São Paulo by Marcello Pompeu and Heros Trench and the final guitar tracks were recorded at AK-47 Studios in Seattle, where the guitarist currently resides. The whole album was conceived through studio jams in a very spontaneous way.
It is an instrumental record that totals 9 songs, and counts on the following guest musicians (alphabetic order): Bruno Ladislau, Francis Botene, Greg Howe, Juninho Carelli, Kevin Moore, Nili Brosh, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore.
More news soon!
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interesting ...
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Kevin is appearing on Aquiles Priester's upcoming solo album.
Link: https://aquilespriester.com/site/first-instrumental-album-of-aquiles-priester-and-gustavo-carmo-the-first/
The first solo album of the drummer Aquiles Priester and the guitarist Gustavo Carmo, will be mixed and mastered by Adair Daufembach at Daufembach Studio in São Paulo. Produced by them both, it was recorded over 2013 and 2014.
Drums were recorded at Mr. Som in São Paulo by Marcello Pompeu and Heros Trench and the final guitar tracks were recorded at AK-47 Studios in Seattle, where the guitarist currently resides. The whole album was conceived through studio jams in a very spontaneous way.
It is an instrumental record that totals 9 songs, and counts on the following guest musicians (alphabetic order): Bruno Ladislau, Francis Botene, Greg Howe, Juninho Carelli, Kevin Moore, Nili Brosh, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore.
More news soon!
I'm in!
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Eren Başbuğ, the young conductor and arranger on DT's self-titled release in 2013 and Breaking the Fourth Wall in 2014, has released a cover version of a song from Kevin Moore's Shine album. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsnmpFW6yE&feature=youtu.be&list=UULFlyviZXb5Pw5L89zpVosQ
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Cool. I actually just listened to the Shine album a few days ago.
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Just got Graveyard Mountain Home in the mail today. Didn't like the samples from the website at first, but repeated listens grew on me. So I finally broke down and bought it. I LOVE THIS ALBUM!
Can't wait to watch the movie later.
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Just got Graveyard Mountain Home in the mail today. Didn't like the samples from the website at first, but repeated listens grew on me. So I finally broke down and bought it. I LOVE THIS ALBUM!
Can't wait to watch the movie later.
Great album. It's really enhanced by the "movie."
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Not much new to add that no one had mentioned already, but I just wanted to say I love both Colorblind and America the Video from Dead Air for Radios alot!
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Kevin just uploaded a photo of him on Facebook, seemingly working on music. No information given, as usual for him.
https://www.facebook.com/KevinMooreOfficial/photos/a.410453135638929.122037.211121772238734/1157413994276169/?type=1
I'm torn. I want a new OSI badly. But same applies for CK.
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Oooh, intriguing photo! And I wonder who took it. He's not alone in the studio, it seems.
Of course, it could just be him working on another guest appearance. Hope not though.
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I'd also be excited for guest performances, though the only one that REALLY struck a chord with me so far (and was very genre appropriate) was his keyboard/vocal performance on In Progress' North Atlantic Echoes EP: https://inprogressofficial.bandcamp.com/album/north-atlantic-echoes
I'd be up for something like that again.
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This is unrelated to Chroma Key, but last night I was reading Prog magazine and saw a mention of this UK artist named Martin Grech. I looked him up and loved his music. It's very Chroma Key and Peter Gabriel-sh, but to my surprise he only has 800 or so likes on Facebook. Just curious is anyone here is into him.
Here's his bandcamp page with all of this stuff: https://martingrech.bandcamp.com/
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This is unrelated to Chroma Key, but last night I was reading Prog magazine and saw a mention of this UK artist named Martin Grech. I looked him up and loved his music. It's very Chroma Key and Peter Gabriel-sh, but to my surprise he only has 800 or so likes on Facebook. Just curious is anyone here is into him.
Here's his bandcamp page with all of this stuff: https://martingrech.bandcamp.com/
Heard of him. (probably from Prog magazine too though.)
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I'm all over that right now.
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Fuck you guys.
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Thanks.
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Fuck you guys.
Nice to meet you too. :lol
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Fuck you guys.
You know, I gotta say, every time I see this thread revitalized and it's not an amazingly new chill CK album, I think the same thing.
:rollin
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:'( :'( :censored >:( :heart ???
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Can I cheer you up by saying that y'all missed out on Kevin saying he was working on setting up his Patreon a month ago (https://www.facebook.com/KevinMooreOfficial/posts/1158499050834330?comment_id=1158503547500547&reply_comment_id=1194906683860233&total_comments=1&comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R7%22})?
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Yes! That's awesome, I am so down for that and would back him in a second.
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Like, that actually means new music confirmed. It's just a matter of time, and how he's gonna put it out.
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Okay so now I've got a boner cause I totally didn't get that at first. :lol :metal :metal :millahhhh :millahhhh AWEEEEESOME!
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I mean, unless he's gonna set it up for photography or something :laugh:
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So.... I have all 4 OSI albums, but as far as KM solo goes, that's it. Any good places to start? I really love OSI, and listen to them quite often (especially OSI and Free).
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You Go Now, Dead Air For Radios. Use headphones.
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Yes. Listen to You Go Now first.
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Both of those are great but Dead Air for Radios goes in a few more directions. Rock/moody/poppy...its awesome. You Go Now is a lot more moody/ambient. Both are great but I would say get his solo stuff in order of it being released.
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Dead Air for Radios is a MASTERPIECE. 9 songs. 7 indescribably beautiful pieces of perfection, 1 really cool instrumental....and one track of slightly erie rubbish (Hell Mary)
You Go Now is really excellent...but honestly, a bit more ambient "filler". If you like things more ambient (and I do) then You Go Know is also very excellent, but slightly outshined by DAFR.
If you love both of those, I strongly recommend getting Graveyard Mountain Home last...and be patient with it. And above all, buy the CD so you can watch the accompanying movie that the album was meant to be a soundtrack of sorts to. I've grown extremely fond of GMH, and it may have even surpassed You Go Now....but all three albums are excellent.
But please....START WITH DEAD AIR FOR RADIOS.
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America the Video is such a catchy song.
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Sounds good. I'll check those two out first. Probably in the order of release, but depends on where i can find them and for how much. Thanks for the opinions!
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It's nearly impossible to find unused copies of DAFR and YGN on CD (at least at a price that doesn't make you want to faint), but Kevin has released the former on his Bandcamp page as a high-quality download version: https://kevinmoore.bandcamp.com/album/dead-air-for-radios
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I'd have to go with Dead Air for Radios over You Go Now. DAFR is just pure magic and I love Zonder's drumming on it -- he brings the tunes to another level. And I love the spoken word parts from interviews that Kevin did with people he met during his cross-country travels on tracks like "S.O.S." and "On the Page." Such a cool touch. You can really feel the mood and frame of mind he was in upon his departure from DT.
You Go Now is just a hair behind DAFR for me. I think that's because I like Kevin's voice and YGN has maybe one too many instrumental pieces for my taste. But "Subway" is my all-time fav CK song and the closing track just mesmerizes me like nothing else.
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I wanted to know if Hell Mary was somewhat inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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No.
IIRC, it's a direct transcription of some weirdo who went into a trance and went forward in time billions of years from now and witnessed the end of the universe.
As far as I'm concerned, the album ends with Mouse.
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Both DAFR and YGN are fantastic, but I honestly prefer You Go Now by a bit. It's just a bit more consistent in quality throughout. DAFR has Even The Waves though, which is my favorite Chroma Key song.
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No.
IIRC, it's a direct transcription of some weirdo who went into a trance and went forward in time billions of years from now and witnessed the end of the universe.
As far as I'm concerned, the album ends with Mouse.
I liked the twist that the only "intelligent" life left to witness it is probably one of our AI creations. Although I'm guessing that it was the intent. Don't seek out Kevin Moore interviews (mainly because they are so hard to find)
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Don't seek out Kevin Moore interviews (mainly because they are so hard to find)
Mebert78 has probably most of them compiled here (https://themooreatorium.tripod.com/interviews-%28page-1%29.html), and you can try to go back a lot on Google + Wayback Machine, it's what I did :lol
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Don't seek out Kevin Moore interviews (mainly because they are so hard to find)
Mebert78 has probably most of them compiled here (https://themooreatorium.tripod.com/interviews-%28page-1%29.html), and you can try to go back a lot on Google + Wayback Machine, it's what I did :lol
Yes, I did try to compile them there! If any one does find one that's not listed at the url above, please let me know. They are indeed hard to find. :)
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I'll go through the stuff I dug up before I discovered the site, but I think we have the same ones. I think someone actually sent me a link to one I didn't have, better dig that one up too!
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Don't seek out Kevin Moore interviews (mainly because they are so hard to find)
Mebert78 has probably most of them compiled here (https://themooreatorium.tripod.com/interviews-%28page-1%29.html), and you can try to go back a lot on Google + Wayback Machine, it's what I did :lol
Yes, I did try to compile them there! If any one does find one that's not listed at the url above, please let me know. They are indeed hard to find. :)
Thank you Mora for pointing out at an even bigger thank you Mebert for creating The Mooreatorium. Moore is the only guy from the (semi)-original band that I don't immediately recognize the voice of. And I even met the dude in person, but soooo many moons ago. He tries so hard to be an enigma ... and moore or less succeeds.
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Sorry about bumping this thread once again with no news, but this tweet by JLB gave me a smile yesterday: https://twitter.com/jameslabrie/status/642066881323601920
EDIT: Oops, there was a thread about this in the DT side already...
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Aw...
and I think that's completely fine as I, and I'm sure some others, don't even venture into the DT side anymore.
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Wow, didn't see that. Very sweet of JLB!
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James guest vocals on the next OSI album. Calling it. 2018 hype!
While we're bumping without any news, do we know if he finished his university? iirc he was studying medicine now. That has me a bit excited for whatever his next musical project is, hopefully OSI. Imagining some super clean, medical-like sterile atmosphere of the music with some messed up lyrics and soundscapes.
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Kevin Moore needs to cover this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iRyZyia1w
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Looks like chromakey.com no longer exists. :/
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:'( :'( :sadpanda:
RIP... I'll listen to all the CK albums today in memoriam.
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It redirects to his FB page... Maybe it's a temporary solution, because CMX did the same thing when their website was hacked. On the other hand, few artists seem to give a damn about their official sites anymore (just take a look at this ugly mess that is Amorphis' home page (https://amorphis.net/)!) and focus on social media instead, so I'm not shocked if a guy like Kevin, who rarely puts out new music, has decided to drop his website completely.
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It redirects to his FB page... Maybe it's a temporary solution, because CMX did the same thing when their website was hacked. On the other hand, few artists seem to give a damn about their official sites anymore (just take a look at this ugly mess that is Amorphis' home page (https://amorphis.net/)!) and focus on social media instead, so I'm not shocked if a guy like Kevin, who rarely puts out new music, has decided to drop his website completely.
^this. Have you seen JLB's shite? I mean site.
It pretty much has been dead since 2011...
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True enough. Band sites are hardly regulated even if they're huge and massively popular, let alone lesser acts or solo artists.
Even so, kinda sad just because. I don't hold much hope for another CK album even though I'd cream my pants ten times over if there was one. OSI, however, I think has a bit more hope. But honestly, even then... Eh. :sadpanda: :millahhhh
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Even so, kinda sad just because. I don't hold much hope for another CK album even though I'd cream my pants ten times over if there was one. OSI, however, I think has a bit more hope. But honestly, even then... Eh. :sadpanda: :millahhhh
Funny you say that, because I just noticed that osiband.com no longer exists now either! It forwards to the OSI Facebook page.
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Even so, kinda sad just because. I don't hold much hope for another CK album even though I'd cream my pants ten times over if there was one. OSI, however, I think has a bit more hope. But honestly, even then... Eh. :sadpanda: :millahhhh
Funny you say that, because I just noticed that osiband.com no longer exists now either! It forwards to the OSI Facebook page.
Shame - judging by their schedule in the past, there would have been an OSI album this year.
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Even so, kinda sad just because. I don't hold much hope for another CK album even though I'd cream my pants ten times over if there was one. OSI, however, I think has a bit more hope. But honestly, even then... Eh. :sadpanda: :millahhhh
Funny you say that, because I just noticed that osiband.com no longer exists now either! It forwards to the OSI Facebook page.
Shame - judging by their schedule in the past, there would have been an OSI album this year.
Apparently Jim is finishing the writing for Fates Warning. So while Jim is concentrated in FW, maybe KM is working on new material for CK, OSI, or KM Solo.
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Even so, kinda sad just because. I don't hold much hope for another CK album even though I'd cream my pants ten times over if there was one. OSI, however, I think has a bit more hope. But honestly, even then... Eh. :sadpanda: :millahhhh
Funny you say that, because I just noticed that osiband.com no longer exists now either! It forwards to the OSI Facebook page.
Shame - judging by their schedule in the past, there would have been an OSI album this year.
Apparently Jim is finishing the writing for Fates Warning. So while Jim is concentrated in FW, maybe KM is working on new material for CK, OSI, or KM Solo.
*crosses all the things that can be crossed
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Oh, baby! Chroma Key news! Kev raising funds for new music release: https://www.patreon.com/chromakey?ty=h
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Oh, baby! Chroma Key news! Kev raising funds for new music release: https://www.patreon.com/chromakey?ty=h
Why did he have to pick Patreon? That's where all the SJW weirdos raise their money.
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Uh who cares that he's using Patreon? You're losing sight of the big news.
NEW CHROMA KEY
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Also very cool: if you pledge $10 per song you get access to all the stems. And if Kevin gets a total of $2000 per song pledged, he'll get all the songs professionally mixed and released as a full album.
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I FEEL LIKE IT'S CHRIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!! AAAAAAHHHH!!! Holyfuckholyfuckholyfuck.
That said...I...am trying...so god damn hard not to build this up as the best thing ever. There are very, very few songs by Kev, solo work or not, that I dislike, but even so...*Woosaa*... So fucking happy! Yet...cautious...and trying not to expect golden, glorious musical smile. Hoping. But trying not to expect such.
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I didn't see this and posted a whole topic based on it. Whoops. Anyways, we really should try and get him to his goal. I'm so excited for this.
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Awesome news. I guess I now have to go to the bank and renew my expired cards.
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Oh, baby! Chroma Key news! Kev raising funds for new music release: https://www.patreon.com/chromakey?ty=h
Why did he have to pick Patreon? That's where all the SJW weirdos raise their money.
what
Patreon is used by all sorts of people. Webcomic artists, musicians, filmmakers, etc.
Also, awesome news!
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The Shine funding project hit $3,000 within 24 hours, if I remember correctly. I think the pledging amounts are smaller this time around, so it should take longer. But I hope he hits the $2,000 mark. A professional new CK studio album is a must!
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Dream Theater (former self) :lol
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The Shine funding project hit $3,000 within 24 hours, if I remember correctly I think the pledging amounts are smaller this time around, so it should take longer. But I hope he hits the $2,000 mark. A professional new CK studio album is a must!
Wouldn't a $2000 per song for an album pledge make that album about 18-20K before it became possible? Or am I reading that wrong?
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what
Patreon is used by all sorts of people. Webcomic artists, musicians, filmmakers, etc.
Also, awesome news!
And SJWs.. lots of 'em.
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They also drink water, eat food, use the internet and twitter, google, etc. Should we all stop using and doing those things?
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They also drink water, eat food, use the internet and twitter, google, etc. Should we all stop using and doing those things?
Yes :rollin
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what
Patreon is used by all sorts of people. Webcomic artists, musicians, filmmakers, etc.
Also, awesome news!
And SJWs.. lots of 'em.
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I've never seen anything resembling a "SJW" on Patreon.
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Either way it's irrelevant considering KevMo is not using the site for that nor is he himself. I mean as far as I know, and quite frankly I couldn't give a shit even if he was. I'm here for the man's music and this specific cause *GASP*. Because some nut-jobs use the site, the entire site itself is now defunct? Logic prevails!
I would say I'm not sure what the point is, but I'm quite certain there isn't one and this is (https://www.supraforums.com/forum/images/smilies/crossjerk.gif) (Ironically enough, those comments sound a bit like some kind of warrior; I just don't know what for...Website Justice Warriors?) :metal :police:
:facepalm: Hoowee...good stuff.
Aaanyway...how bout dem Chroma Keys!? *Puts 'When You Drive' on repeat* I'm actually really intrigued to know what kind of sound this collection of songs (hopefully album) will have. He's the kind of musician where I truly have no idea what he's going to put out. Which is awesome.
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Woot, just pledged.
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FINALLY! :caffeine:
I think I'll contribute 10 bucks - I'm not skilled enough to make remixes, but it'd be cool to have the individual tracks and perhaps record something on top of them for fun.
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Saw his tweet and pledged about 10 seconds later. Freaking great news!
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Kind of undecided which pledge to get: the $3 or the $5.
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I pledged 5 bucks too.
Just a reminder to those who want to support Kevin: you're pledging *per song*. So if the $2000 goal is reached and a full album is produced, you're looking at probably 8-10 times your pledge amount. I'm expecting to give about $50 bucks.
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I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I've never seen anything resembling a "SJW" on Patreon.
Google will help you find what you seek.
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I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I've never seen anything resembling a "SJW" on Patreon.
Google will help you find what you seek.
Oh my god who cares?
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Oh my god who cares?
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Oh my god who cares?
Well I do for one.
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You're apparently preaching to deaf ears, doodbro. Be gone with your babble, WJW!
Partly kidding...but for real, no one here gives a shit. :lol It's completely irrelevant to the topic. Start a separate thread if you want to make something out of it.
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It's great to see the amount climbing up and up. New CK isn't far away! :)
Wouldn't a $2000 per song for an album pledge make that album about 18-20K before it became possible? Or am I reading that wrong?
You're right! I think I had a brain lock, lol.
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If you pledge $10 per song, how do you know how much total you've pledged if you don't know the number of songs you've pledged? Maybe I missed some fine print ?
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I initially went with $3 since I don't listen to alternate mixes much and overall the stems don't interest me. But I was listening to Microburst Alert the other day and wished I had a version of the song without the samples. I like most of the samples Kevin uses, but some just bug me. Camera 4 is another one of those songs where the samples just ruin it for me. So I've upped my pledge to $10 a song.
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I would have loved them to do that on OSI. He mentioned in an interview that he was surprised with how Stockholm turned out because he would have sung or paused in different places than MA did.
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So after finally getting some spending money and this being my Chroma Key spamming time of year, I finally got to donate a bit to Moore's Patreon page and holy fucking hell it is nerve-racking how close this thing is to being a full album. Look at this shit! (https://www.patreon.com/chromakey?ty=h) So. Fucking. Close.
Aaaah! :lol It's like blue balls.
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I thought it had reached 2k a few weeks ago.
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Unless that page somehow isn't updating then it hasn't quite yet. But man...I am really hoping that if somehow by the luck of things there just aren't any more donations, Kev does a full album anyway cause that is like...I mean it's RIGHT. FUCKING. THERE. :laugh:
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I donated last week, and at that time, it was over the asking price. ???
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It does stipulate under the amount that it's an estimate based on fees and 'declined pledges' so maybe some stuff happened... Here's hoping there are some more donations and/or a "Eh, close enough!" cause that would suck so fuckin' much if we didn't get a full album and it's that close.
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It did reach the $2K amount and Patreon sent us an e-mail indicating that the milestone had been met and a full-length Chroma Key album would be made. It's odd that the overall amount has now fallen. I guess we'll see what happens.
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Damn, I never got that email! Well if it had already been announced I doubt they'll go back on it. Plus it's so close, it'd almost be stingy to not do it even if it hadn't been met. :lol Furgin' awesome if so! Then again the fact that I didn't get an email might say something too... Hrm. I'm pretty sure it will, and hopefully just for good measure there will be some more donations.
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The song is out! I'm crying into my coffee cup.
Also the amount has gone up and down again, but Jens Bogren reached out to Kevin and offered to mix and master the album for free *fangirls forever* so maybe Kevin will do it on a lesser amount.
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New song is pretty good :smiley:
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did you have to donate to get the song?
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Yup.
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weeeell damn. money is tight so i won't be getting that then :-\ hope the album will get an itunes release or something :)
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What a wonderful song and a perfect reintroduction to Chroma Key after all this time! I can hear elements of old CK songs in this one and it made me smile. Perfect Christmas gift from Mr. Moore. :)
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Ooo...i think i'll donate sometime soon.
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Awesoooome! Love it. Pretty much what Mebert said. I cannot wait to hear the rest. But I'll be chillin to this through the holidays.
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Kevin thanked me for my comment on the song and said that the bonus track for the "enablers" is coming soon. I really wanted to reply with a When You Are Ready pun but I held back :lol
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It's pretty chill, I dig it.
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Love the new tune, so full of atmosphere, trademark Moore.
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Digging the song and the YGN vibe! I've been in a productive mode lately and can't wait to mess with the stems! :D
Jens Bogren reached out to Kevin and offered to mix and master the album for free
Ooh, where did you read that? :o
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Revival to see if anyone has gotten any updates and how it's coming along. I haven't gotten anything since December and got caught up with life and remembered about it just now... Might have to see what's up with either my email or their email... Mmmmeh. I'm just hoping it didn't stall out.
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No updates just yet, but Kev tweeted a link over the weekend to an old episode of "The Preacherman Show." He used one of the show's segments in the Graveyard Mountain Home album. Would be cool to get an update on the new material though, as it's been some time.
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I thought the Panteon thing was going to get KM a bit more creative but he only released one song and then disappeared for 6 months or so. I hope he is ok, although I think he is going to med school.
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BUMP
I've been on a big KM/CK/OSI kick lately, and it occurred to me that I donated to this a long time ago, and only got one song. Now it's been almost a year. Still nothing??
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Nada. Pretty surprising and disappointing, to say the least.
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Damn, did nobody ever get anything? I mean, no new material isn't exactly something new for KM, but no new material when it was promised and people are donating for it is a little bit bad.
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Damn, did nobody ever get anything? I mean, no new material isn't exactly something new for KM, but no new material when it was promised and people are donating for it is a little bit bad.
He released only one song and got paid for it. But nothing else has been released and nobody else's credit card has been charged. Kind of disappointed. Maybe he'll release something as soon as his med school semester is over.
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Ah, okay. I wasn't sure how patreon worked. If noone's been charged, then it's excusable. Still disappointing, though. After all, new Chroma Key music would have been great.
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New song finished (from his Facebook feed)
https://www.patreon.com/chromakey
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Hell yeah!
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Song is up
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Just listened to it. Aweeeeesome.
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How is the new song? Chroma Key is hit and miss for me. The first two albums (and his unofficial before that) have some of my favorite songs. But the CK after that was just meh for me. Is there a 10 second snippet somewhere?
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If you enjoyed You Go Now, I'm pretty sure you'll like both of these Patreon songs as well. Mission is a good chillout song, while Bonewalk is more up-tempo and groovy.
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Bonewalk is figgin' groovy. Great song that is more upbeat than most CK songs while still sounding like classic CK.
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Woooow new track is so awesome. Definitely my favorite so far. Holy moly.
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I agree! I particularly liked this one!
I must say though, I'd love to one day hear a song with Kevin's vocals and JUST piano, similar to Peter Gabriel's "The Drop."
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The new one sounds pretty modern and not like traditional CK, but I really like it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sswCTo1yAVk
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Really digging Mission
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Mission is a really solid CK tune. So nice to see Kevin slowly pumping out new music again. Twas a quiet handful of years following OSI4!
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Mission is a really solid CK tune. So nice to see Kevin slowly pumping out new music again. Twas a quiet handful of years following OSI4!
Has been a while hasn't it?
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I helped Kevin make a very simple video for Bonewalk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yYMsdz5WRM
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(https://i.imgur.com/FJfu0iM.png)
:corn
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I helped Kevin make a very simple video for Bonewalk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yYMsdz5WRM
This was nice. Coming any time soon?
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(https://i.imgur.com/FJfu0iM.png)
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I don't see this on social media. Any chance you can provide the link? :)
Also, great job on the video, noxon!
EDIT: Nevermind, found it on Facebook. I looked on Twitter, lol.
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Yeah, it's among the comments on Kev's latest FB post.
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New supergroup with Kevin? OSI reboot? :lol
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Decided to Join the Patronage. Best decision i have made this week. Gradually working my way back to the first song, and my oh my these songs are usual Chroma key awesomeness.
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Yeah he's got some seriously amazing songs put out so far. I really can't imagine how awesome the full experience is going to be. I went from being very unhappy about supporting him initially to over the moon. :lol
And that is so great to see Portnoy reaching out to Kev, super good feels there.
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Yeah him not really releasing much in the beginnings of when he first put up the page, is a reason why I didn't join. I'm really glad I did though.
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The new song "Landslide" has to be my favorite of the bunch so far. Classic Kevin Moore groove and lyrics. Love it!
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yup just got done listening to it. Love that exact vibe and atmosphere he has in that one. It's what I love about Chroma Key.
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I was just about to post that it's my favorite as well. This shit is SO SEXY.
Kevin at his best, I think. It's so awesome to know he's still got this in him after all these years. What a fuckin' awesome, brilliant dude. UGH MARRY ME KEVIN.
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So I'm still unclear on how Patreon works. Basically you pay 3 bucks a month and you get a song whenever its posted. For a while, Kevin wasnt posting stuff so you were paying 30 bucks for nothing? Do I have that correct?
Now I see he's picked up with the production. I've heard the four songs he put on youtube and they are exactly what you'd expect from Chroma Key. Awesome, trippy, moody music. Would be glad to pay the standard $1.29 or whatever for a download of each of those songs.
I see there's a lot posted on Patreon that he hasn't put on youtube. Would love to download all of those but if I do that subscription thing do I get downloads of all the songs or just each new one he releases? Do I have to pay 30-40 bucks for those songs when we used to get an album full of songs for the standard 15 bucks?
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No, you only pay if he posts something.
Once you subscribe, you only start paying the monthly then and there and still have access to everything he's posted and of course anything he will continue to, and again, if two months go by and he doesn't post anything, you pay nothing for those two months; when he posts something, you'll be charged with whatever tier you decide to pay.
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Ah ok. So if I join now I'll be able to download all of his past songs he posted? Even if I only pat the three bucks monthly or whatever? Or would I have to pay 3 bucks per song?
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Only 3 bucks and you get everything.
All of this reminds me I haven't checked out what he's posted since I am already supporting him, so got the 9 demos he's posted so far, will do some listening later today.
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Damn...better start supporting. Dying to hear some new Chroma Key. Thanks for the info everyone.
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Is it all “demos” or are they absolutely final product?
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They're demos, but they do sound good. Its not like a tape recorder in a basement quality, and they're all properly mixed.
You can check out the first four here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszvAiNfGmq8GRHHlZmbD0g videos courtesy of yours truly.
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Finished catching up with the demos. Damn, there are some pretty awesome tracks here. Strong is my fav so far, but all of these are great :metal
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I just caught up with it too. I honestly wasn't expecting much probably because I didnt understand this Patreon thing. I figured he would just throw some crap together but everything he has released is at least as good of quality as other Chroma Key. Some of it holds up to my favorite stuff and others are just pretty good but it's all quality.
Still would rather do it the old school way and just have an album you can take time to process but that's just me. Looking forward to new stuff!
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I just caught up with it too. I honestly wasn't expecting much probably because I didnt understand this Patreon thing. I figured he would just throw some crap together but everything he has released is at least as good of quality as other Chroma Key. Some of it holds up to my favorite stuff and others are just pretty good but it's all quality.
Still would rather do it the old school way and just have an album you can take time to process but that's just me. Looking forward to new stuff!
Waiting for an album myself.....might be waiting a while.
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Seems he hasn't released anything new for a while nor has updated his Patreon page as well :huh:
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Yeah there haven't been any updates for quit some time. Even if we don't get any new music for a while I hope he at least posts some kind of update regarding himself and how he's doing, and maybe get a timeline at the very least.
Either way what we have right now is fantastic. Quite frankly I'm hoping we get to the end of the preliminary period sooner than later. I think there's an album's worth there.
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Maybe he started school again.
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Oh yeah, I forgot he's still going to school. I'll support that all the way, that's awesome he's doing that.
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John Petrucci on Kevin Moore...
Link: http://bravewords.com/news/dream-theater-guitarist-john-petrucci-on-former-keyboardist-kevin-moore-rumor-has-it-that-he-s-some-sort-of-doctor
Headline: DREAM THEATER GUITARIST JOHN PETRUCCI ON FORMER KEYBOARDIST KEVIN MOORE - "RUMOR HAS IT THAT HE'S SOME SORT OF DOCTOR"
Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci recently guested on Two Doods Reviews to discuss the band's new album, Distance Over Time. During the interview he talks about former keyboardist Kevin Moore, who left the band prior to the official release of the Awake album in 1994.
Petrucci: "Rumor has it that he's some sort of doctor or something, that he got into holistic medicine. I have not talked to him in ages. We actually grew up together. We were best friends. And after he left the band, he just went his own way. Early on after he split, we kept in touch a bit, but I have not heard from him in a long time. The only reason I know this is because some of my high-school friends and stuff stay in touch and our parents, we literally grew up together, our parents were friends."
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That's really sad. Kevin is such a mysterious person and I've always been disappointed that he didn't want to contribute to the Lifting Shadows book, but at the same time that mystique is part of the everlasting KevMo charm, especially with his music. It's just sad him and JP used to be so close and haven't been for the longest time.
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The demos he has been releasing are outstanding. If you haven't heard them, please do. He is the only Patreon artist that I support and it's well worth it.
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The demos he has been releasing are outstanding. If you haven't heard them, please do. He is the only Patreon artist that I support and it's well worth it.
Still waiting for a CD if there is one.....
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Hey, everyone. I recently did a Q&A with Christian Ayala of Avandra, the Puerto Rico-based progressive metal band. Kevin Moore makes a guest appearance on their new new song "Derelict Minds," and their new album Descender comes out on April 26. Enjoy!
Link: Interview with Christian Ayala (April 2019) (https://progzombie.blogspot.com/p/interview-with-christian-ayala-april-11_10.html)
Christian Ayala
Date: April 2019
Christian Ayala is the founder of Puerto Rico-based progressive metal band Avandra, which is releasing their second album, titled Descender, through Blood Music on April 26. The album, which was written in the dark following Hurricane Maria in 2017, features three prominent guest musicians: Kevin Moore (ex-Dream Theater, Chroma Key, OSI), Richard Henshall (Haken) and Daniel Schwartz (Astronoid). The album was mixed by Schwartz.
Q: For those who aren't familiar with Avandra, how would you describe the band's music?
CA: I would define it as prog-mospheric. By this I mean the band is certainly progressive metal in many ways, but while it seems to be the norm that prog metal now has a lot more to do with technique than with a sincere search for an emotional connection with the listener, Avandra is about trying to strike a balance between the technical and the atmospheric/emotional. I always intend to take the listener through a journey, both musically and lyrically, for I never write lyrics just for the sake of it. They always have to mean something, meaning, in a kind of tautological way, have a deeper meaning than what they might seem to have on the surface.
Q: What's the meaning behind the name Avandra?
CA: So, I went through a few before landing on Avandra, and dodged a couple of bullets, such as Project Geneva (name influenced by the album by Russian Circles, Geneva). The name comes from a Dungeons & Dragons campaign that I was preparing with a friend. We began to explore the fourth edition and it included a new deity, the goddess Avandra. She was the goddess of travel, adventure, luck, and several other things. I liked what it represented: travel, for all those trips that one has to do while on tour; adventure, because really having a band (and one more serious than a mere "hobby") is an adventure; luck, because you have to be lucky to be recognized in this industry, and also because "fortune favors the bold." Apart from that, it is a name that can easily be pronounced in many languages!
Q: How and when did the band members meet?
CA: Once the first album, Tymora, was released on May 5, 2017, I began to receive many messages from people asking me when they were going to see us live. What a lot of people didn't know was that Avandra was done as a half-conceited\vanity project. I did it because I said to myself, "if I die someday soon, I want to have left some of my creativity in the world," so playing live was not something I had in mind. But the pressure to do it was mounting, until I said, "well let's experiment." I auditioned a few musicians and after about a month of it I had a full band. The first show we did was in August of 2017, in the town of Caguas, and it was fantastic for us. One of the things that I found most curious is that people had this look on their faces like "what's going on?" Haha. In a good way, of course. The musical chemistry we had was such that I knew that with this line-up was it. So, we got to recording the second album a few months after the official band had formed.
Q: Tell me about the upcoming album, Descender. What should fans expect and how has the band's sound evolved since your first album, Tymora, was released in 2017?
CA: So one thing I always try to do is write what comes naturally to me. My Holy Trinity of Dream Theater (especially the Kevin Moore era), Opeth and Porcupine Tree runs through my veins, so at the time of writing, those forces are automatically channeled. What I was looking for was to have a certain "mood" that would connect all the songs, regardless of their dynamic variability. By "mood" I do not mean a transitory affective state, but the definition that Martin Heidegger uses in his book Time and Being, where he defines it as "a way of being in the world." All the songs are connected as if they lived in the same universe. So it does not matter if the song is "A Decision Must Be Made" (much simpler in its structure and technique) or "The Narrowing of Meaning" (much longer with a somewhat crazy structure and technically much more advanced), the "mood" in both songs is one of thematic and emotional cohesion.
To say we have evolved musically since Tymora I think is 110% correct. I feel this album is leaps and bounds beyond what Tymora was. I wrote with new energy, and the album is more diverse and interesting, both musically and technically, than Tymora. Of course, Tymora still holds a special place in my heart, and I still find it to be a great album, but Descender is a whole 'nother beast, thanks to what the other musicians brought to it (Tymora being a one-man project creation).
Q: Is it true that you wrote the new album alone in the dark after Hurricane Maria?
CA: I wrote (most of ) the lyrics and music during the time of total darkness after the reckoning of Hurricane Maria (Hurricane capitalized here for respect, haha), yes. I was studying for my master's thesis, so I was reading a lot. It was the only thing I did: read and write music. Many of the lyrics of the album are then deeply influenced by the readings of the moment (especially the philosophy of language in Nietzschean thought). Music to a certain extent too. My mother has one of those power plants, which she would turn on for a few hours in the day and some at night. I went to her house to charge my iPad, where I have BIAS FX, and I started to write music with my PRS guitars, with only the brightness of the iPad hitting me in the face.
Q: You released a lyric video a few weeks ago for the song, "Derelict Minds." Have you been happy so far with the fan reaction? It seems like people, myself included, are loving it.
CA: I am super excited that people have liked it so much! Honestly, I was kinda worried. I have trust in my creations but that doesn't mean that everyone will react in a positive way. Even more, Blood Music, the label we are signed to, is known for more aggressive and extreme acts, so I honestly thought their fan base would absolutely hate it. But so far it has been great. There have been quite a few Cynic comparisons, but the funny thing is the first riff was written before Cynic's Traced in Air came out. It was mainly influenced by Dream Theater in When Dream and Day Unite, especially songs like "Afterlife" and "A Fortune in Lies," and a small lick in "Innocence Faded" where John Petrucci does the two-hits-per-note technique (double picking) in one of the pre-chorus.
Q: Kevin Moore (ex-Dream Theater, Chroma Key, OSI) made a guest appearance playing keyboards on "Derelict Minds." How did you guys link up with him?
CA: So, I should make it clear that he only did the synth solo in the song. That being said, I always, absolutely always, write with a "What Would Kevin Do?" mentality, so in an indirect way, Kevin is there, in spirit, haha. We got linked up one day I sent him a message via Facebook. I had sent him this really heartfelt message explaining his very important musical influence on me, and I asked him if he would do a keyboard solo for one of the songs. He said yes and did a great one for "Derelict Minds." I do plan on recording a full song with him for the third album, which is 5/8th of its way completed, song writing-wise. Already talked to him about this, so it’s very, very probable it will happen.
Q: What did Kevin's performance add to the song and what was it like to work with him?
CA: I feel his solo adds a lot of depth and feel to the part where he plays it. Makes it more interesting. Kevin has a good ear (obviously) for where to phrase what and what sound to use when doing so, and he did not disappoint. Working with him was quite easy. We emailed each other a couple times. He nailed it on the first try, so there wasn't too much back and forth between us in that respect. All in all, everything flowed well.
Q: Are you a fan of Kevin's previous music and has it inspired you in any way?
CA: To say I'm a fan of Kevin's is an understatement, to be honest. He has shaped my musical creativity in a way that few others have. As mainly a guitar player, one would think Petrucci had the biggest influence on me out of all the members of Dream Theater, but it was actually Kevin who inspired me the most. He is what made Dream Theater the mystical experience I had when I was a young kid and first hearing them at the age of 14, granted, the first album I ever listened to from them was Falling Into Infinity, but it wasn't until I heard Images and Words that I would never be the same again. After I learned of his departure (he had already done so like five years before I had my first DT experience), I kept up with his work. Even though I like OSI, Chroma Key was what continued the KM experience for me, especially Dead Air for Radios and You Go Now. It was like hearing the ambiance and emotion I loved about Dream Theater, but stripped from its cumbersome technical approaches.
Q: Tell me about the other guest musicians, Richard Henshall of Haken and Daniel Schwartz of Astronoid. What did they bring to their respective songs?
CA: Richard added an amazing solo to the end of one of the longest songs called "The Narrowing of Meaning." Dan added digital percussion to a song called "Q.E.," which is the album closer. Originally, I had thought of adding digital percussion to the song, but lacked the experience of doing so, and Dan just happened to ask me as we were finalizing the album's mix if I had thought about adding them to it. I said yes, and like five hours of working on them, they were added to the final version of the song. It makes the song more dynamic and just interesting to listen to.
Q: I also noticed that the talented Travis Smith did the album's artwork, which looks great! What's the meaning behind the cover illustration?
CA: I did a Behind the Cover for Breathing the Core, where I laid this out in a way that I probably couldn't now, haha:
The concept of the cover was worked out between me and Travis Smith. The label (Blood Music) had recommended Travis since he had been long time collaborator, though, as I understand it, we were the first band on the label that worked with him for an original art piece. The main idea I had in mind stemmed from the running theme of the lyrics on the album, which is language and its poietic (creative and formative) power. The album name, Descender, ties into the language aspect, for its about climbing into one's self and using dialectical introspection as a tool to get to "know thy self." Hence, the void faced man with a spiraling path that leads to its interior world. That interior world echoes and ripples into the outside world, hence the black matter that is pours out from him, creating new universes of thoughts and realities. This also works in a feedback-loop kind of way, where the void swallows all of the external world’s influence, us being embedded and embodied organisms, and hence creating a universe within. This idea runs throughout the six-panel digipack casing (and whatever other casing it will eventually come in). Travis Smith went far and beyond anything we could have hoped for and comes HIGHLY recommended on my part.
Q: What can fans expect lyrically on this album from Avandra?
CA: Conceptually, the album follows the thread of poietic power of language. Poietic comes from poiesis in Greek, meaning formative or creative. In other words, although there are some songs that do not necessarily follow this thread, the album is based on the idea of how language can help us realize the infinite powers that exist within us, but that can also suppress and oppress them. "The Narrowing of Meaning," for example, is the song that best explains this. It is a deep and real analysis on a vague and obscure language used by politicians, for example, when they try to appease people using words that mean nothing by themselves as when, in my case, they say "I follow the values, Puerto Ricans, and you must follow them too." This is code for just do what I tell you, because I'm not going to define the word value. The same with church pastors, one's parents (in some cases), etc. It is a war against those who want to say "my language is the right one because naturally it is so," but as Ludwig Wittgenstein said, the meaning of the words is in the language game, that is, in its context (social, cultural, economic, geographic, etc.), so that nothing "natural" has, and therefore the ability to transvalue the negative values created by those oppressive languages becomes infinite.
Q: Any plans to tour for the new album?
CA: We are planning a small 10-day tour in August, along the east coast of the US. It'll be our first one as well! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay tuned (links at the end of the interview, so read on!)!
Q: What are some bands or musicians that have inspired you through the years and what are you listening to today?
CA: I have a whole myriad of different bands and artists that I have to thank for the different aspects of my writing, starting from the age of four when I became a huge Michael Jackson fan. I would sit my family down on the couch and sing to them using a hair brush as a mic. At the age of 8 I discovered The Beatles and they were the first band I ever became obsessed with. To this day I listen to them almost on a daily basis. At the age of 10 I started shifting into the more contemporary pop and rock (this was 1995, so, "contemporary"). I was really into pop acts like Savage Garden and Hanson (yes, Hanson, and yes, pop not rock, haha) and rock ones like The Wallflowers and Oasis. At 12 I discovered The Foo Fighters, 311 and Green Day. So, for a year that's all I would listen to, until the age of 13, where it was all about Metallica. At the age of 14, though, I heard Dream Theater for the first time via a band that was playing at my brother's high school welcome party. My whole life changed that day. I became obsessed with finding out what song it was from Dream Theater they had played. I started by buying Falling Into Infinity, and even though I didn't find the song, I loved that album and it was all I would listen to for months on end. It all really changed when I heard Images and Words. I had no idea the transformative power of music until I heard that album. I remember saving up lunch money and eating scraps my friends would leave on their plates in order to afford every single Dream Theater album after that initial FII one. I also think that has a lot to do with my emotional attachment to the band. First time I would choose music over good food. A sacrifice I will never regret.
Q: What's the progressive metal scene like in Puerto Rico?
CA: Thrash metal is king in the current scene. Like in all scenes, some bands are doing it right, some are expanding on it in an innovative way, some are, well, not great. There are bands that are starting to break out from this, though. One of my favorite bands in the local scene, and I'd dare venture to say of all the stuff out there internationally, is called Moths. They mix stoner/doom, which is starting to trend (or has been trending) for a while now in the metal scene of the U.S., with jazz and progressive music, and that's where they really leave most stoner/doom bands in the dust.
Q: How is Puerto Rico doing in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria?
CA: Maria was devastating both structurally, culturally and economically. Structurally there are people that had to straight up leave Puerto Rico, because they literally didn't have a home anymore. My maternal grandfather lives in the mountains of Humacao (a town down here) and a lot of the houses around his are super old. A lot of them were made of very fragile material or just badly built. Needless to say, a lot of the don't exist anymore. Thousands of families have left for the mainland, leaving P.R.'s population in a state of reduction since its passing. There's a lot less people out in the streets as well. As an example, pre-hurricane, you couldn't go to Plaza Las Américas (biggest mall in the Caribbean) on a Friday or Saturday, 'cause it would be impossibly packed. Now, you can walk around comfortably, which is good for the general public, but pretty bad for businesses, of course. A lot of local businesses have had to close or move to the U.S. to resume operations. In other words, it's a wound that's still healing, but we'll get there.
Q: Where do you see the band 10 years from now?
CA: Hopefully recording, or at least working on, our seventh album, and with many tours under our belts. Also, doing this full-time. There's a lot of music still left to write without those pesky day jobs getting in the way!
Q: What websites can people visit to for more information on the band?
CA: Facebook: www.facebook.com/avandrapr; Instagram: @avandrapr
Thanks for having me!
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Great interview Mike! I encourage everyone to listen to the tune, it's really good. He hasn't said it was an influence but I definitely hear a little bit of modern alternative prog in there, in the vein of Caligula's Horse and Karnivool, especially in the vocals. It's a great marriage of 90's and modern prog, definitely not derivative, and not too djenty either. Just the kind I like.
The demos he has been releasing are outstanding. If you haven't heard them, please do. He is the only Patreon artist that I support and it's well worth it.
Still waiting for a CD if there is one.....
You might wait a bit - he started the project in 2015 and still no CD. I think he's taking his time to align things and write enough music for a kickass album. Hearing these songs has been an absolute pleasure though - my favorite is Somewhere Better.
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Kevin has been uploading some of his demos to Youtube. Check them out and hopefully you can subscribe to his Patreon page and get more songs.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszvAiNfGmq8GRHHlZmbD0g/videos
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Kevin has been uploading some of his demos to Youtube. Check them out and hopefully you can subscribe to his Patreon page and get more songs.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszvAiNfGmq8GRHHlZmbD0g/videos
Isn't a lot of that stuff on cassette and CD already?
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Kevin has been uploading some of his demos to Youtube. Check them out and hopefully you can subscribe to his Patreon page and get more songs.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszvAiNfGmq8GRHHlZmbD0g/videos
Isn't a lot of that stuff on cassette and CD already?
The demos from the late 90's have been around for a while; these are new songs, he's calling them demos because he is producing them himself. Have a listen, they are amazing!
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Kevin has been uploading some of his demos to Youtube. Check them out and hopefully you can subscribe to his Patreon page and get more songs.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszvAiNfGmq8GRHHlZmbD0g/videos
Isn't a lot of that stuff on cassette and CD already?
The demos from the late 90's have been around for a while; these are new songs, he's calling them demos because he is producing them himself. Have a listen, they are amazing!
They definitely sound great. Not much of a stylistic difference which is fine. Haven't had any expectations since it's been so long since I've heard something new. You know right away that it's him.
I'm still hopeful for a CD at some point.
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Just wanted to share this cool watercolor painting of Kevin Moore recently created by a fan named Arthur Hatton.
(https://cdn3.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/10/18/15bc5d1c65892f53a524caec3197e8fa-full.jpg)
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He's very talented, that's a lovely painting.
Side note, I'm still spinning that Avandra album, not just for the KM solo spot.
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He's very talented, that's a lovely painting.
Side note, I'm still spinning that Avandra album, not just for the KM solo spot.
Wait, what? Is KM playing on that one?
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He's very talented, that's a lovely painting.
Side note, I'm still spinning that Avandra album, not just for the KM solo spot.
Wait, what? Is KM playing on that one?
Just the track Derelict Minds.
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Kevin Moore's on this:
sounds nice
https://desperatemachines.bandcamp.com/album/complet
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Kevin Moore's on this:
sounds nice
https://desperatemachines.bandcamp.com/album/complet
Very interesting.
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Kevin Moore's on this:
sounds nice
https://desperatemachines.bandcamp.com/album/complet
Thank you for sharing! Glad you enjoy it. We have more material with him that we'll release in 2020. We're really excited about the project and hope people like it.
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In the song Give Up, from Graveyard Mountain Home, you hear radio chatter from "The People's Exchange", I found which radio station it was from (KDYN) and listen to it every once in a while just for the novelty of it.
The People's Exchange is on Monday-Saturday from 9-10 am eastern and 1-1:30 pm M-F eastern.
Here's a link to their live stream:
https://streamdb7web.securenetsystems.net/v5/index.cfm?stationCallSign=KDYN
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Kevin just released a new Patreon instrumental demo.
It sounds, lovely, and is acoustic-piano. with some "Strings"
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Really loving the new song. I was listening through the demos tonight and I feel like there's enough strong songs for a really great album. I particularly like "When It All Falls Down," "Fader" "Rail Hail Snow," "Landslide" and "War Comes Homes."
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Really loving the new song. I was listening through the demos tonight and I feel like there's enough strong songs for a really great album. I particularly like "When It All Falls Down," "Fader" "Rail Hail Snow," "Landslide" and "War Comes Homes."
I'll include
After All Even You
Elephant Boy
Away
Somewhere Better
Mission
Strong
Bonewalk
That'd be a pretty good album right there
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I'd buy a new CD without question.
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I'd buy a new CD without question.
Same here. I'm not apart of any of his Patreon stuff, for but for those who are, is there an endgame? Is he planning on a release at some point? I know he's busy now with his 'legit' career, but I'd be hella down for another OSI or Chroma-Key release.
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Not that I know of. I just know he releases Demos and teasers. And right now. It's not a bad offer with the amount of demos he has put out that you can download once you become a Patreon Member. Also, theirs tiers that get you instrumental versions, and one gets you the stems.
You can also stop contributing if you want to and then later on, continue contributing again and get access to the stuff you didn't get when you stopped the membership. I did that, as I forgot to update my card info for the site. It was fun seeing what I missed...
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Doubtful for a physical release which is why I caved and did the patreon stuff. Was kind of a sweet deal because he'd already released several songs by that point so for five bucks (the second tier) I basically got a CD's worth of songs. On months where he doesn't release anything, you aren't charged.
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Just reflecting on Kevin's career and had an interesting observation. He released or had been a part of a great, or close to great, progressive metal album every two or three years from 1989 until 2012. That's an amazing achievement.
DT - WDADU 1989
DT - I&W 1992
DT - Awake 1994
FW - APSOG 1997
FW - Disconnected 2000
OSI - Office of Strategic Influence 2003
OSI - Free 2006
OSI - Blood 2008
OSI - Fire Make Thunder 2012
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Is Kevin still active with the Patreon stuff? I have a bit more disposable income than I did when it started... would love to get in on it if there's anything going on, but trying to look as a non-member leads me to believe no new material has been posted for almost a year now.
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Is Kevin still active with the Patreon stuff? I have a bit more disposable income than I did when it started... would love to get in on it if there's anything going on, but trying to look as a non-member leads me to believe no new material has been posted for almost a year now.
He hasn't been active for a while now. But if you join, you will have access to ALL of the previous material.
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Is Kevin still active with the Patreon stuff? I have a bit more disposable income than I did when it started... would love to get in on it if there's anything going on, but trying to look as a non-member leads me to believe no new material has been posted for almost a year now.
It's worth it. There's plenty of stuff there.
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Interesting.
I knew he went to Medical School, but didn't realize he was going or for this specifically.
https://www.trinityhealth.org/providers/kevin-moore/
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Interesting.
I knew he went to Medical School, but didn't realize he was going or for this specifically.
https://www.trinityhealth.org/providers/kevin-moore/
That's really cool!