SCH (an abbreviation for "

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") is the musical and artistic project and band (or rather the ''band-

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'') of

Senad Hadžimusić Senad Hadžimusić-Teno is a Bosnian musician, songwriter and poet best known as the founder, mastermind, songwriter, producer, singer and guitarist of the Sarajevo alternative rock band SCH. With SCH, his ''band-alterego'', Teno has authored, p ...

, who is better known by his nickname ''

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''. Formed in the early-eighties in

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, the band has had an intensive creative and live existence. SCH represents one of the most significant names in the field of

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music in the

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. ''Radio Student Ljubljana's'' Igor Bašin has noted: "As Ljubljana's got

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and Belgrade's got EKV and

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alias

Šarlo Akrobata Šarlo Akrobata ( sr-Cyrl, Шарло Акробата, lit= Charlot the Acrobat) were a seminal Serbian new wave/post-punk band from Belgrade. Short-lived but extremely influential, in addition to being one of the most important acts of the Yug ...

, thus Sarajevo's got SCH. SCH is the key-name of the Sarajevo Alternative Scene." Bosnian writer

Miljenko Jergović Miljenko Jergović (born 28 May 1966) is a prominent Bosnian writer. Biography Born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia to Croatian parents, Jergović received his M.A. in literature from the Sarajevo University. While at hi ...

once described SCH as "...a group of Sarajevan alternative maniacs who have, infinitely and into infinity, dissipated more wild energy and artificial rebellion than one could fit into all the gothic underground cellars from Hamburg to London."

SCH Music

SCH's constantly changing, radically unconventional and experimental music is sometimes cursorily referred as "a mix of

, modern dance electronica,

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edge and Bosnian

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." A number of reviewers have commented on the precise, determined, and industrial aspects of their sound and production, shared by German industrial,

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, and

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bands. Eldin Hadžović notes in

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, "Noise has been a common denominator in the band's 20-year-old work, during which numerous line-ups have styles came and went, together with high and lows (the latter principally being a long production/performing pause)... SCH has not deviated one inch from its principal task - to serve as a mirror to our reality, seen through the prism of schizophrenia... SCH sounds like nothing that came before them, or anything that may come after they’ve gone."

Milestones and influences

* In its earliest phase (1983–1984), SCH's music was mixture of new wave,

and

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. Early influences included

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and

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.SCH Interview, December 2003
(translation of the Carpe Diem Records page a

* SCH's second phase began in early 1985, continuing from an emphasis on recording and performance to a study of war, which became a theme in ''prior to'' and throughout the

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. This period (1985–1991) was characterized by radicalization of the band's sound and its shifting from post- new wave into

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and industrial. Influences during this period included

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, SPK, D.A.F. and early

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. * SCH continued to perform and record during the

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(1992–1995), but disbanded for several years thereafter, following a 1995 performance in Prague. During the hiatus (1995–2002),

published a book of SCH lyrics as well as '' During Wartime... Again!''. * ''VRIL'' (2002) marked a new and still actual phase in the band's development, in which electronic instrumentation and sampling have largely replaced its former, "classic" line-up of guitar, bass and drums.

Live line-up

As of 2007, SCH live consists of Senad Hadžimusić Teno on vocals/guitars/synths; Rida Attarashany on synths/rhythm machine.

Discography

Albums

*'' SCH'' (1987) *'' During Wartime'' (1989) *'' White Music: Two Ways To German Art & Work Discipline'' (1992) *'' The Gentle Art of Firing'' (1995) *'' During Wartime... Again!'' (1999) *''

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'' (2002) *'' Eat This!'' (2004) *'' Deluge and After'' (2006) *'' Only Cunts Don't Fear the Rain'' (2006) *'' SCH Live'' (2007) *''

Dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

'' (2007) *'' SCH Glut'' (2011) *'' SCH The Last'' (2013)

Other releases

*'' SCH Dirty Lo-Fi Archive 1984–2008'' (2008)

Singles

*"Otto" (2018) SCH's music has also been featured in a number of films and radio programs, as well as in the theater.

References

External links

* ouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/STEMPLINPOT?feature=mhum* CH Aficionados Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_31602114649* acebook Sch band page: https://www.facebook.com/sch.band
Miljenko Jergović – Shizofrenija
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