Federspiel

There is no better way to describe why this album looks like it does, than: It was pure fun making it.

The self titled album of the Austrian Folk music band Federspiel consists of a studio and a live part. The musical work is brought together from eastern Europe, Ireland, Spain, Austria, Hungary and Mexico, reinterpreted with a very special charm. None of us really had an idea about what’s behind this ill-rupted genre. When we got the photos for the album, showing seven young men with Lederhosen and trumpets, after hearing this amazing music, we didn’t want anyone to make the same mistake, and put them in the wrong drawer.

“Federspiel” literally translated means “feather game”. We sure took this literally too and made a game board out of the back of the CD. Everything was explicitly illustrated and of course one could see some similarities between the seven dudes on the CD cover and the real band.