This album can definitely stand as a marker in time and that is why it is 4 stars and not 3. The techno sounds that where incorporated with the music now sounds like the music that comes out of children’s toys, or primitive video games. Seriously, I could totally bet some of this music could be swapped for something on the NES (original Nintendo Entertainment System) and I doubt anyone would notice a difference in quality.
So yes, this dates back to early attempts to fuse techno with music. However, this effort though it does have some good songs, really only serves as a relic, such that people can point to it and say, “That is what music used to sound like.” These particular sounds used on this album have largely vanished from good music because they seem to lack the overtones that come with actually playing a wooden guitar without some effacing sound for example. To put it bluntly: The sounds on Scenario are too cheesy!
Also, though this music is dated, Al di Meola’s performance on it is often quite good. It is the other stuff, such as the processors, even the guitar processors, that subtract from the goodness of Scenario. It is a good album, but you have to put up with primitive techno that sounds like something out of Super Mario Brothers, and that is why it loses a star.
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