Graveyard Mountain Home is the third studio album released under the name Chroma Key by American keyboardist Kevin Moore.
With complete creative control over the album, Moore was free to experiment, sometimes writing music "not necessarily to always match the images on the screen, but to sometimes play against it.
Moore played songs from Graveyard Mountain Home live for the first time in a small club in Istanbul in 2007, and planned to tour more extensively in the future.
Moore, who had been living in Costa Rica, stayed with him for two weeks, then decided to settle in Istanbul and record the third Chroma Key album there.
[3] The first project Moore worked on after he moved to Istanbul was Ghost Book, the soundtrack to the Turkish film Okul.
Moore enjoyed the experience and decided to write the third Chroma Key album as an alternate soundtrack to an already-existing film.
[3] Unlike in a traditional film soundtrack, Moore often wrote music "not necessarily to always match the images on the screen, but to sometimes play against it.
"[1] Moore explained that a traditional soundtrack needs to convey the mood of the scene and advance the film's storyline, but that he did not have to do that with Graveyard Mountain Home "because the director's not around".
The hour-long show consisted primarily of material from Graveyard Mountain Home, which was accompanied by projections of the corresponding scenes from Age 13.
"[7] Writing for Sea of Tranquility, Michael Popke noted that "If you listen to Graveyard Mountain Home as a stand-alone piece of music... you probably won't be overly impressed.
If, however, you hear this sophisticated mix of dark, ambient post-rock and psychedelic sounds while viewing the 1955 public-domain film Age 13, you may consider multi-instrumentalist Kevin Moore a small-time genius.
"[9] Popke speculated that if Moore created more albums based on obscure films, "he might just alter the face of the genre.
"[9] Martien Koolen of DPRP described Graveyard Mountain Home as "a typical album for dark, wintry afternoons,"[8] although conceded that "it is not [his] cup of tea.
"[9] He found that watching Age 13 with Graveyard Mountain Home as the soundtrack enhanced the film: "Age 13 is not necessarily an enjoyable film to watch... but viewing it with the Chroma Key soundtrack makes an odd experience even odder yet wholly compelling, with a mysterious filmstrip allure that freezes a bygone era.
"The music is solemn and somewhat confusing as the tracks run from one to another without much build and in seemingly senseless patterns... Having previously seen or simultaneously watching Age 13 most definitely would help the listener along.