Formerly known as Société de radiodiffusion de la France d’outre-mer (SORAFOM) and founded in 1955 by Pierre Schaeffer as a cooperation program between France and Africa to train technicians within African national broadcasting services and to preserve African rural soundscapes.
SORAFOM became Office de coopération radiophonique (OCORA) in 1962 on April the 14th, as part of Radio France (French national broadcasting service) to collect and preserve traditional music heritage.
The office was initially run by composer and musicologist Charles Duvelle.

Ocora is until now a label dedicated to traditional forms of music with a worldwide coverage and has published more than 600 records for scientific purposes and also for the general audience on vinyl, cassette and compact-disc.
Label code: LC 11719