In search of a real world Ada Rave

• 1 in search of a real world 04:59
• 2 transformation, regeneration 06:20
• 3 el jardín del poeta 05:08
• 4 it smells like rain 05:37
• 5 compulsory datatronik 06:04
• 6 choike purrun 03:40
• 7 ritual machi 06:54
• Total Runtime 38:42

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
ist eine argentinische Saxophonistin, Improvisationsmusikerin und Komponistin. Sie hat einen ihr eigenen, persönlichen Zugang zum Klang des Instruments, der sich dabei sowohl darauf konzentriert, ein lyrisches Spiel auszudrücken alsauch die klanglichen Möglichkeiten und Eigenschaften durch zahllose Techniken zu erforschen und dabei die konventionellen Pfade zu verlassen. Ada Rave hat sich ab dem Jahr 2000 in der Jazz- und Improvisationsszene von Buenos Aires einen Namen erspielt. 2013 übersiedelte sie nach Amsterdam, um in der dortigen Szene ihre Arbeit fortzusetzen.

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