VRIL is the sixth official 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...

. Following a seven-year-long hiatus, 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...

 resumed activity in 2002, with a new electronic sound. According to the official SCH discography, "VRIL is a concept album that deals with the occult

Occult

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

, space, aliens, secret societies, high politics

High politics

Within the subfield of international relations, and political science as a whole, the concept high politics covers all matters that are vital to the very survival of the state: namely national and international security concerns...

, VRIL energy

Vril

Vril, the Power of the Coming Race is a 1871 science fiction novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally printed as The Coming Race. Many early readers believed that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril" was accurate, to the extent that some theosophists...

 and other 'dangerous matters'."

Ognjen Tvrtković, in Ljiljan

Ljiljan

Ljiljan was a weekly news-political and cultural „News magazine“ based in Sarajevo,the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded by the Party of Democratic Action in 1990....

, describes how SCH's previous "guitar noise" has been replaced by electronic instrumentation and sampling: "Once again we face an exploration of monotony, a minimalist research into rhythmic and melodic forms, tracks infused with a maximally claustrophobic atmosphere, and surreal imagery adopted from science fiction tomes...[t]ake Nazi UFO, [for example] a veritable little electronic symphony during which Hadžimusić

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...

develops his minimalist aesthetic of endless repetitiveness of rhythmic and melodic lines to the outer limits, a method he resorts to on a number of tracks here."

Tracklisting

1. "E.T. Tanz"
2. "Ultima Thule - Mantra"
3. "Kazumi"
4. "Grijeh"
5. "Predugo sve ovo traje"
6. "Gruvy Lube"
7. "Tamna sila"
8. "Znaš da te oni k meni šalju"
9. "Nazi UFO"
10. "Traumkugel"
11. "Tamna sila"

External links

• SCH Official Discography