Ada Rave - In search of a real world (2024) Hi-Res

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