During Wartime
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During Wartime is the second official studio album by SCH
SCH (band)
SCH is the musical and artistic project and band of Senad Hadžimusić, who is better known by his nickname Teno. Formed in the early-eighties in Sarajevo, the band has had an intensive creative and live existence...

. It was released on the Jugoton
Jugoton
Jugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia the company continued to work in independent Republic of Croatia under the name Croatia...

 label in 1989. The recording line-up was Teno
Senad Hadžimusić Teno
Senad Hadžimusić is a musician, songwriter and poet best known as the founder, mastermind, songwriter, producer, singer and guitarist of the Sarajevo alternative industrial band SCH. With SCH, his band-alterego, Teno has authored, performed, produced and recorded 11 official albums...

 (vocals/guitar/bass), Petar Erak (bass), and Zlatan Hadžić (drums).

The album addresses a variety of topics, including the eternal relationship between totalitarianism and democracy, humanism and fanaticism, leaders and their subjects, the fascinating rapture of the so-called manipulated, and elitism. A number of the tracks create/depict an atmosphere of anticipated urban war to come. Both in its title and content, During Wartime proclaims the coming of tumultuous political tremors that were to culminate in the destructive wars.

During Wartime was composed in the spring of 1988, announcing the upcoming political changes which culminated in the Bosnian war
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...

. Samir Šestan, in Culture, notes that: "Unlike many others, SCH fully responded to demands of that time and they did it in a precise, clear and clean manner. Constructively about destruction; harmonically about disharmony. On During Wartime, SCH brought a fusion of politics and aesthetics to culmination and proved that that is the only thing that art can deal with."

Tracklisting

  1. "Vagabonds"
  2. "The Day When I Was Born"
  3. "Ne dozvoli da zaboravim"
  4. "Zbogom"
  5. "Master"
  6. "Partija naša"
  7. "F.LJ.P. #7"
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