Another participant in ‘Unser Song für Österreich’, Germany’s national final for Eurovision 2015, is Fahrenhaidt, an ambient, modern nature pop project founded by music producers Erik Macholl and Andreas John. The vocal performer of their two entries for the German final, Frozen Silence and Mother Earth, is Danish singer Amanda Pedersen. Both songs appear on the Fahrenhaidt debut album The Book of Nature, released on 6 February.

Erik, Andreas and Amanda visited our ESC Radio studio for an exclusive interview in which they explain the inspiration behind The Book of Nature, how they chose the songs for the competition and how they prepare for the performance on Thursday night.

Read more to listen to the interview and watch the music video of their entry Frozen Silence…

Another participant in ‘Unser Song für Österreich’, Germany’s national final for Eurovision 2015, is Fahrenhaidt, an ambient, modern nature pop project founded by music producers Erik Macholl and Andreas John. The vocal performer of their two entries for the German final, Frozen Silence and Mother Earth, is Danish singer Amanda Pedersen. Both songs appear on the Fahrenhaidt debut album The Book of Nature, released on 6 February. The album also includes vocal performances by Canadian singer-songwriter Alice Merton and by the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest winner Emmelie de Forest for the track Wildfire (see the music video at the bottom of the page).

Erik, Andreas and Amanda visited our ESC Radio studio for an exclusive interview in which they explain the inspiration behind The Book of Nature, how they chose the songs for the competition and how they prepare for the performance on Thursday night.

Listen to the interview:

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The album The Book of Nature including both USfÖ entries Frozen Silence and Mother Earth is available in all major digital download stores. Watch the music video of Frozen Silence here and find more photos of Fahrenhaidt visiting our ESC Radio studio below. At the bottom of the page you find a video of Frozen Silence performed in an accoustic session and the video of the song Wildfire feat. Emmelie de Forest.
The complete line-up for the German national final ‘Unser Song für Österreich’ is listed as well.

Watch Frozen Silence performed in an accoustic session:

Watch the music video of the song Wildfire feat. Emmelie de Forest

Unser Song für Österreich – German national final for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest:

Round 1
In the first round, each artist will perform one of the two songs they have selected to perform first. The top four artists will be selected by televoting to proceed to the second round.

Mrs. Greenbird – Shine Shine Shine
Alexa Feser – Glück
Faun – Hörst Du Die Trommeln
Noize Generation ft. Patrik Jean – A Song For You
Ann Sophie – Jump The Gun
Fahrenhaidt – Frozen Silence
Laing – Zeig Deine Muskeln
Andreas Kümmert – Home Is In My Hands

Round 2
In the second round, the four artists that qualified from the first round will perform their second song. Out of all eight songs of the remaining artists (both from round 1 and 2) the top two songs will be selected by televoting. These two songs have to be from different artists. If the top two songs are both from the same artist, only the first will advance together with the third placed song. These are the options for Round 2:

Mrs. Greenbird – Take My Hand
Alexa Feser – Das Gold Von Morgen
Faun – Abschied
Noize Generation ft. Patrik Jean – Crazy Now
Ann Sophie – Black Smoke
Fahrenhaidt – Mother Earth
Laing – Wechselt Die Beleuchtung
Andreas Kümmert – Heart Of Stone

Round 3
In the third round, public televoting will determine the winning entry among the two acts that qualified from Round 2.