Gregor
Schaefer

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Emmelie Zipson & Gregor Schaefer perform "Dans Me" in a tiny office, 2019.

Solo bassetto (smaller double bass) version of Gregor's composition Valse d'Algues, 2019.

Karawansera (Karavanserai) performs the song 'Ya Mariam al Bikrat' at the 2018 Yiddish Waves festival, with a bowed bass intro.

Americana with Niels Koopmans, 2016.

Gregor's klezmer composition A Freylakhe Pastukhl, performed by Shtetl Band Amsterdam with Christian Dawid in 2011.

Klezmer concert suite, performed by Shtetl Band Amsterdam in 2009.

TV-performance on De Wereld Draait Door, with Mazzeltov in 2008.

Bass lines and percussion on the bassetto, accompanying two singers, 2006.

Rare performance where Gregor played the hand drum in a Spehardic song, 2006.

Csokolom's crossover arrangement of an archaic Transylvanian dance melody, from the 1999 demo video tape.
There was the challenge of quickly changing between four different techniques on the bass: regular plucking (pizzicato), bowing (arco), hitting the strings with a drum stick, and percussion on the body of the bass.

Amari Szi Amari, performed by Csokolom in 1999 in Monterey, California.
Here Csokolom combined the slow and the fast versions of the song. The CD recording of the faster version was later used in the movie Everything Is Illuminated.