My name is Gilbert Paeffgen

I was born in 1958 in Würzburg, Germany, and now live in Switzerland.

The instruments I play are the drums, an assortment of different percussion instruments and the hammered dulcimer.
The hammered dulcimer is also called „Appenzeller Hackbrett“.

Assorted Percussions: I love to find different sounds on the drums and next to the drums and to integrate them into the musical process.

Both my interest and my taste are not fixed on one certain specific type or style of music.

Actually already at the beginning of my career I started immediately a journey, where I seek my musical identity: I always felt extremely attracted to, and inspired by, various kinds of Ethnic Music, thereby especially African and Celtic Music. In different groups and projects, with different musicians and artists from different angles I combine these ethnic influences with rock, avantgarde and jazz.

I released music with Irish Uillean pipes or an Irish singer as well as I recorded music from French classical composer Gabriel Fauré. I perform and record with a jazz-piano trio as well as I am asked as soloist for a classical orchestra work, as backup for a French singer which sings in Patois (old swiss-french dialect) or as studio- or freelancemusician.

Beyond that I am active as composer and conceptor.