This album was recorded in July 2012 by Axel Reinemer at Hansa Studio Berlin, a famous recording studio.
Eric Schaefer was awarded the ECHO Jazz, Germany's most important music award, as Best National Drummer in 2012.
The cover art for this album was created by Jonathan Meese, an artist whose work is represented by VG Bildkunst.
The Rolling Stone magazine suggested that Eric Schaefer would be a strong candidate for a Nobel Prize for drumming, if one existed.
The album title, "Who is afraid of Richard W.?", is a play on the title of the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee.
Eric Schaefer, the drummer and producer of this album, is known as one of the 'clandestine stars of the German jazz scene' according to Die Zeit.
