Zach Rowden

Member of: Tongue Depressor

Zach Rowden is an American double bassist and violinist based in New Haven, Connecticut, working in improvised and experimental music with a focus on drone, repetitive structures and noise. He plays upright and electric bass as well as fiddle, and has released a long run of solo recordings on small labels alongside duo and group work in free improvisation. Rowden plays with Henry Birdsey in Tongue Depressor, a duo working with drone and microtonal tunings, and is a soloist in the Hyperion Ensemble led by Iancu Dumitrescu and the late Ana Maria Avram.