In search of a real world Ada Rave

• 1in search of a real world04:59
• 2transformation, regeneration06:20
• 3el jardín del poeta05:08
• 4it smells like rain05:37
• 5compulsory datatronik06:04
• 6choike purrun03:40
• 7ritual machi06:54
• Total Runtime38:42

Info for In search of a real world

Tenor saxophonist Ada Rave, born and raised in Argentina, decided to move to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2013. She had heard ‘the call’, followed her musical intuition and became part of the colorful community of Dutch creative improvised music.

Educated in the jazz tradition she started to look for a more personal language. A deep search. Not an easy path to go.

The destination is always changing. Each step made will call for a next step. A slow process of collecting material, sounds, techniques, scratches, melodies, noises, fragments, splinters: everything that will help to refine a language of one’s own.

Ada loves to enter unknown territories, like a warrior.

She is not afraid of making mistakes, she uses them as an inspiration. Or in the words of trombonist Roswell Rudd: “a mistake doesn’t exist, it’s a gift of the Universe”.

She speaks with a soulful voice that brings back memories of the great tenor saxophone players: a big, deep and dark sound.

But you also hear her reach out for ancestral dances, rituals, prayers and thanksgivings of her land of birth: Argentina.

She loves unconventional techniques using cups, bottles, lids, tubes, feathers, sticks and stones to extend her color-palette.

It makes her language quirky, rich, intimate, touching, powerful, uncomfortable, beautiful, abrasive, breathtaking.

Ada Rave is a strong, curious, sensitive musician, a unique voice on the tenor saxophone.

Go listen to her music and enjoy it as much as I did. (Ab Baars)

Ada Rave, tenor saxophone + preparations, soprano and sopranino (track 6)

Ada Rave

Ada Rave
is an Argentinian saxophonist, improviser and composer. She is a researcher of a personal approach to the sound of her instrument, focused in her own way to express a lyrical playing as well as exploring sounds through a wide variety of techniques that goes beyond the conventional ways. Ada Rave has integrated the jazz and free improvisation scene of Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 2000 and decided to move to Amsterdam in 2013 to continue her researching in the field of improvised music.

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