Group formed in1992 in Madrid by CLÓNICOS' trumpet player Markus Breuss and three components of the group ZYKLUS (Wade Matthews, Baldo Martínez and Pedro López). After a beginning that was a debtor of the post-free tradition which characterized preceding projects, Scorecrackers changed their initial formation (Matthews and Martínez left, and Isabel Mullor and Suso González joined) and their previous plan, focusing their music from a most experimental perspective, although they did not abandon jazz at all. This group combines electroacoustic sonorities and many resources inherited from conttemporary music (such as the "randoming", the "noising" and the atonality), with improvisation, informalism and a lack of prejudices, as the point of departure of the raising of anarchical (but still coherent) sound structures. After Mullor and González's leaving, Breuss and López set themselves as Scorecrackers' nucleus, having in their live performances (their natural background) the participation of many artists coming from different stylistic fields.

Jesús Brotons.

• Eating Flowers (CD, Por Caridad, 1997)
  

"Their performance consisted in two long themes/improvisations -one for each part of the show- where they combined many formal references: jazz, contemporary, electronics, randomity, soundtracks, the fate, the construction and dinamitation of structures, samplers and handled sounds...As a result, a vital and unclassifiable music, of a wild beauty not very habitual in the musical circuits (of jazz or not) of this country." (Jesús Moreno - DIARIO del ALTO ARAGON).

"Scorecrackers or the chaos as one of the beautiful arts. They redefine the sound territory of the end of the millennium starting from young savage's aesthetics, with a lacerating and overwhelming expressionism. Their music constitutes a carnival full of rage and noise, a celebration of the clash of ultrasounds.../... In between of nightmare's atmospheres and twilight magic moments.../... Don Cherry meets Panasonic at chaos time.../... It is one of the hardest things ever heard. Sounds in the verge of the tolerable." (Luis Llés).

"Scorecrackers perpetrate an authentic musical performance armed with every kind of bows and wind instruments... It left us completely astonished with a collection of unexpected sonic registers." (Karles Torra - LA VANGUARDIA).

OYK (excerpt)

UYT (excerpt)