Viennese musican - bass player, sonic research - born in Berlin - studied in Graz - moved to Cologne in 2004 - Jazz? World Music? - Improvisation? - Improvisation! - border-crossing contacts in all keys - interstellar journeys through the audible universe - and in the centre: music.

Born 1958. Played double bass since 1984.
Achim Tang studied classical Music in Basel and Berlin, in 1987 he moved to Austria to study at the jazz department of the "Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst" in Graz. Graduated from there 1992.

Inspired by the meeting with Glen Moore in the late 1980's, Achim Tang started to experiment with different tunings on the double bass. In the following years he developed an asymetric tuning, mixing fifths and fourths which strongly influences his style of playing. After moving to Vienna in 1993 he quickly becomes one of Austria's most wanted bass
players. He successfully works with jazz musicians as well as with contemporary composers, DJs, world musicians or dancers.

Member of the musicians label WINDHUNDRECORDS.COM

„Achim Tang is one of the players, for whom stylistic borders simply don't exist“ writes Renald Deppe on the occasion of a concert at the Festspielhaus St. Poelten in 1996. This openness along with his strong, personal sound is a mayor part of Achim Tangs music.

Over the years Achim Tang played - and still plays - with many of the leading improvisers in contemporary music today, such as Marc Ducret, Stoyan Yankulov, Wolfgang Puschnig, Joachim Kühn, Linda Sharrock, Patrice Heral, Guy Klusevcek, Anatoly Vapirov, Jay Clayton, Deepak Ram, Max Nagl, Dominik Piffarelly, David Tronzo and many others. He performed on many of the big Festivals in France, Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland.

Compositions:
Music for the theater productions "Jedermann"(1992), "Titus Andronicus" (1993) and "Faust 2" (1994) in Graz; "The Land Of Milk And Honey" (1995) in Vienna.
Music for the dance performances "Body Poems" by Akemi Takeya,
"Khalon for four women"and "Salle d´Attentes" by Loulou Omer
Music for the film "Donau" by Goran Rebic
"Visual Eyes Music"Compositions with video animation for children (2004)

Selected Discographie:
KINDS - Hannes Loeschel, David Tronzo (loewenhertz 2005)
TANZ MUSIK - music for dance performance (windhundrecords, 2004)
SYNAPSIS - Oskar Aichinger (between the lines, 2003)
IN THE LONG RUN - Achim Tang (windhundrecords, 2002)
GRAN RISERVA - Dzian & Kamien (couch records, 2002)
CHANTS - Wolfgang Puschnig (quinton, 2001)
RAMASURI - Max Nagl Ensemble (hathut, 2001)
QUAND ON A QUE L´AMOUR - Maria Bill (extraplatte 2001)
MAKAHIA - Lantos/Tang/Heral (november music 2000)
ELEMENTS OF POETRY - Oskar Aichinger (between the lines, 1999)
CAFE ELECTRIC - Max Nagl Quintett (november music, 1999)
STOLEN MEMORIES -Guy Klucevsek Bantam Orchestra (tzadik, 1996)
UNEXPECTED EVENTS - Uli Rennert (sos music,1993)

CD ACHIM TANG "IN THE LONG RUN" (EX 499-2)

Achim Tang - Bass, Komposition; Christian Slafellner - Schlagzeug; Klaus Gesing - Sopransaxophon, Bassklarinette; Heinrich von Kalnein - Altsaxophon; Robert Bachner - Posaune

Tracks: proloque - the U turn -d:late - what happende? -blues for Nyborg - everyman grooves - old song - Aditi

CD ACHIM TANG "Tanz Musik" (WindhundRecords)

Achim Tang - bass, composition; Margarete Jungen - voice

Tracks: mdc - 3 solos - competition - schief - windows - la marche - promenade 2 - khalon

MUCHE - ZOUBEK - TANG
with Philip Zoubek - piano and Matthias Muche - trombone
ACHIM TANG - IN THE LONG RUN
with Klaus Gesing - ss/bcl; Heinrich von Kalnein - as; Robert Bachner - tb; Christian Salfellner - dr
ALLES VIEL ZU SEHR UMSONST - Improvisations to the lyrics of Ernst Herbeck
with Christian Reiner (Oral Office, Berlin)
HANNES LÖSCHEL - KINDS
with Hannes Löschel - pno; David Tronzo - slide guitar
MAX NAGL - QUINTETT
with Joanna Lewis - vln; Max Nagl - saxes; Patrice Heral - perc; Josef Novotny - pno
WOLFGANG PUSCHNIG - CHANTS
with Linda Sharrock - voc; Wolfgang Puschnig - reeds: Woody Schabata - vibes; Bumi Fian - tp; Reini Winkler - dr; Laurinho Bandeira - perc
OSKAR AICHINGER - SYNAPSIS
with Oskar Aichinger - pno, synth; Stefan Nemeth - electr; Paul Skrepek Junior - dr
MAMADOU DIABATE - BEKADIYA
with Mamadou Diabate - balafon; Luis Sanou - balafon; Thomas Berghammer - tp; Luki Knoefler - dr; Nick Baker - perc; Werner Wurm - tb
IM URWALD (music for children)
with Patrice Heral - perc; Zoltan Lantos - vln