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,[1] Teno has authored, performed, produced and recorded 12 official albums. His music was also featured in a number of films and radio programs, as well as in the theater.[2][3]
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Senad Hadžimusić |
| Also known as | Teno, SCH |
| Born | Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Occupation(s) | musician, composer, songwriter, poet |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Website | Official website |
Numerous articles, essays, and reviews have been published about this extraordinary and significant figure of the Bosnian and Ex-Yugoslavian alternative culture.
If anyone has succeeded in shaping the traumas of our war and post-war period into a thoroughly convincing and artistically relevant form, than this is surely Senad Hadžimusić Teno, singer, guitarist and political activist, with his alternative rock band SCH. Their records were almost always infused with the prophetic, granting the band and their artistic endeavors a special position within both the rock scenes of their native Sarajevo and Bosnia, but also outside those confines, within both Yugoslavia and Europe. Hadžimusić's political brutality, however, has always been bereft of direct political activism, opting as he did instead for claustrophobic visions of the projects of the future, whether bright or dark, dependent on the moment these visions came to be and the events they tended to anticipate.
— Ognjen Tvrtković[4]
The pain caused by the general loss of humanism and the absence of integrity and dignity, the conception of the emptiness of existence in a world unfit for man, none of this has broken the back of Senad Hadžimusić; instead, it has led/forced him to find, in the ruins of this world, an elementary cell of re-born humanity. With fascinating persistence, Teno has dodged the trap of contemplating the point(lessness) of doing anything but taking up the art of butchery (i.e. politics and ‘making money’), allowing his creativity to flourish, with disregard for the surroundings and problems of the material nature.
— Samir Šestan: Melancholic Optimism or Black Sun on the Horizon[5]
In 1996 in Prague, Senad Hadžimusić also published the bilingual (English/Bosnian) lyrics book "SCH - Songs and Tales",[6] which was highly acclaimed by well-known Bosnian and Croatian writer, poet, journalist and literary critic Miljenko Jergović.[7]
References
edit- ^ Samir Šestan: Melancholic Optimism or Black Sun on the Horizon (BH DANI, SARAJEVO, MARCH 2006) Archived 2009-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Antonije Žalica: Angels In Sarajevo (1993)
- ^ Aleksandar Gajić & Enes Krluć: While Mushrooms Smell (1994)
- ^ Ognjen Tvrtković (Ljiljan, Issue 489, 3–10 June 2002; p 49) Archived 10 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Samir Šestan: Melancholic Optimism or Black Sun on the Horizon (BH DANI, SARAJEVO, MARCH 2006) Archived 2009-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hadžimusić, Senad (1996). SCH - Songs and Tales. Prague, Czech Republic: Menora. p. 32. ISBN 80-902212-0-3.
- ^ Miljenko Jergović: Senad Hadžimusić: SCH - Songs and Tales (BH Dani, January 1997) Archived 2007-12-30 at the Wayback Machine