Achim Tang

Achim Tang is a German double bassist, improviser and music educator, born in Berlin in 1958. He studied classical double bass in Basel and Berlin and jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where he completed a performance diploma. He subsequently developed a career across improvised music, jazz and contemporary sound art.

Tang's activity has included long-term collaborative ensembles and projects connecting instrumental performance with electronics and multimedia. On Creative Sources he appears on Sator-Rotas (CS109), Excerpts from Anything (CS192), Die Trockene Familie (CS290), Movements (CS301) and Hellerau (CS694). The Nanoschlaf project, heard on Die Trockene Familie, combines his bass with Matthias Muche, Philip Zoubek, Sven Hahne and Christian Thomé.