https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJo9Naz5X4A&t=748s&ab_channel=Berryvandema st
Scha was an experimentalist from the Netherlands who was active in the early 80’s, releasing only 2 solo albums. This was his final one, and the concept is interesting: the guitars are played entirely by machines, who woulda thought? It’s impressive how the album came together, but it doesn’t make for some very interesting music.
This is a collection of 8 songs that rely on minimalism for their structure, repeating the same fairly bland motifs for somewhere between 4-6 minutes (for the most part). The guitar sound is similar to what you’d find within no wave: weird tuning with no distortion. While the sound of the guitar & how the album was made is cool, nothing else is. The music gets irritating very quickly, the songs seemingly drag on forever & the creativity only comes from the machines used to play the guitars. “Throb” and “Sweep” are the two highlights here (since they seem to have more depth to them), but other than that it’s nothing. - Barrybonds4052