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Steven even had a club hit with the dance music track “I Fail” that he recorded with the Belgian DJ Regi. They have released two albums on Fratelli, including “Paper Plane”, a 2008 Belgium- only release of original songs written by Steven. In 2006, they signed to EMI and launched their own record label and production company, Fratelli. In its new indie-rock incarnation, Scala & Kolacny Brothers found fame in France and Germany, releasing albums in French (Respire in 2004) and German (Grenzenlos in 2005). But before a backlash could begin, interest in their music soared in the rock press and on the radio, leading to a record deal with PIAS in 2002 their debut album, “Scala on the Rocks”, went gold within weeks of its release.
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His fears appeared well founded when the brothers expanded their repertoire to include their new songs in traditional choir competitions – they were disqualified from one for using “bad language”. He was worried that the classical press would see Steven’s “indie-rock choir” idea as a cheap gimmick. And I didn’t like the feeling much, so that’s why I started making my own music”.
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It’s like cover versions – there are a trillion cover versions of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. But it was a traditional, classical choir, “performing for older audiences” says Steven, which was “very nice, but you always play the same old music again and again. The inspiration to do rock songs came to Steven in 2001 after a friend in London sent him a Radiohead CD with some recordings the band had done for the radio station XFM, including a live version of “Creep.” “There was something so touching and emotional in his performance.” Scala & Kolacny Brothers had already been going for a number of years – the brothers had formed the choir in 1996 and it became successful in their native Belgium, where it was voted Choir of the Year for 1999-2000.