You Go Now (2000) / Chroma Key

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The second LP by Kevin Moore' project, Chroma Key, released on November 14, 2000.

If you like what you hear, you should buy the album:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QQQWGE/

The comments are from Kevin Moore's website, circa 2000:

1. Get Back in the Car 00:00:00

I have no idea what this means (alternate title?). After recording the basic tracks to each song, I grabbed a microphone and sang along to them, recording whatever came into my head, some words, some mumbling & humming. Then I played the track back and tried to fish words out of what i was saying, and wrote them down. Like an audio Rorschach test. Then I went back and recorded the resulting words. Looking at all the lyrics that came out of that process gets me a little worried, and this song is a good example.

2. Another Permanent Address 00:05:02

I started writing ideas for the album on piano last summer ('99), so a lot of these songs began as very simple piano ideas. (Early on I was expecting the CD to be very acoustic...) Another Permanent Address began as a very slow & simple 8-chord piano progression. When i showed the idea to Steve he started messing around with rhythm ideas on the computer and sampler, and the song took on a new direction. The audio Rorshak proved frightening again, and these are the most bleak lyrics on the CD, accompanied by its most upbeat music.

3. Nice to Know 00:10:08

We started with this song on day one in the studio. I had all these ideas recorded on cassettes and written out on manuscript, the equipment was all in place, but I was so reticent about beginning Steve had to force me to show him the first idea. Within a few minutes the basic piano riff you hear in the opening was recorded, and Steve had worked out a simple rhythm.

This started as a simple piano riff too, but I pictured guitar and drums around it from the beginning Dave Isocove came in later and laid down the guitar parts here - the main riff & chorus chords, and all the atmospheric swells and noise in the background. Dave has a minimal equipment set up (amp, wah pedal, delay pedal) and a real natural approach to playing. His style really fit well with this CD, but I like his playing here best.

4. Lunar 00:14:38

Found an old NASA LP that had a strange choice of recordings from the Apollo missions. Liked the banal, matter of fact things the best, like turning off the TV monitor, or trying to get to sleep. Almost feel sad for them...

5. When You Drive 00:17:54

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.

6. Subway 00:23:19

Was working on this song around the time I brought an Access Virus keyboard into the studio. Used it for all of the synth parts and the vocoder, had a lot of fun tweaking sounds and just kept layering them (esp. during V2). The middle section with the heavy bass chords used to be 3 times as long...

7. Please Hang Up 00:27:56

For the pops and hisses I recorded a Neil Young album ("Tonight's the Night") and took out all the music - it doesn't repeat. Sometimes you can hear music ending or a drum hit. I had the idea for this piece laying around for a while, and actually recorded the operator sample a few years ago. I've always thought those operator announcements were a little spooky, so it was easy to make it scarier by chopping up the words and phrases.

8. Astronaut Down 00:29:57

More astronauts.

Stole the chorus line from a friend who said she was feeling that way, like an astronaut in a submarine.

9. You Go Now 00:34:53