After an indoors concert tour through Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the band recorded the album Trad II in a studio that had been custom-built in an abandoned hotel on Mount Krippenstein in the Dachstein Mountains. The subsequent concerts included locations in Sarajevo and Cape Verde. In 2003, von Goisern toured with Mohamed Mounir through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After presenting Trad II on Mount Krippenstein in October 2003, von Goisern went on the Trad II tour in 2004.