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SCORA is a Belgian collective that was contacted in 2001 by The Antwerp Film Museum to compose and arrange new soundtracks for a number of legendary silent movies, such as Berlin, die Symphonie der Grossstadt (Ruttmann, 1927) and Aelita, Queen of Mars (Protazanov, 1924).
Even though the band has a rather typical jazz quartet line-up, you can hardly define SCORA’s music as pure jazz. There has always been the adventure to create the right atmosphere for each composition in the first place. As our audiences in Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland and Russia often state: "Sometimes you think you are in a smoky jazz club, but suddenly you will be sitting in a roaring rollercoaster in the middle of a French movie, and just a few minutes later you might as well be listening to some chamber music concert played by some Russian armyband on a funeral“.
The music, which is composed by Walter Baeken, is a mysterious electro-acoustic blend of contemporary jazz, classical music,
haunted ballroom style, and jazz-rock topped with ethnic influences
and science fiction sound scapes.
CD releases
2002 Berlin, die Symphonie der Grossstadt
2009 Imagine Mars
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