Fiedel Michel - Von Zeit zu Zeit (1978)

"Fiedel Michel" from Münster, who had first appeared in 1972 as the "Rambling Pitchforkers", playing a set of Scottish and Irish folk, won first prize for German songs in the 1973 Interfolk Festival in Osnabrück. The Interfolk Festival (or "Internationales Folklorefestival") combined "authentic" folk music and an intimate atmosphere. With artistic quality and the non-commercial orientation of the performers, Interfolk remarkably withstood the trend toward mass-oriented festivals.

In the mid-1970s, Fiedel Michel were alsongside Elster Silberflug (from Heidelberg) and Liederjahn (from Hamburg) one of the leading German folk groups. On their albums, they combined dance tunes, traditional music and socially critical "Volkslieder". They were part of the folk and "Liedermacher" movement looking for new possibilities for a musical culture with a political awareness after the collaps of the 1968 student movement. In the face of political impotence, it was now time for the radical youth to give up the slogan "Gitarren in die Ecke" and to once agian let the songs do the talking. By this it meant the political song scene should not forgo its radicalism, but should adapt to the new conditions of the 1970s.

Fiedel Michel - Von Zeit zu Zeit (1978)
(320 kbps, front cover included, vinyl rip)