"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

"In Search of a Real World is a collection of sonic poems / images that are inspired in my own search for a 'real world', more tangible and less virtual, more sensitive and less mechanical, more present and less fragmented. Could we ever recover our ability to contemplate? This is a search born out of living in the midst of tension, between a way of life that drags us towards excessive, destructive and unsustainable consumerism and the faint whisper of the ancestral philosophies that never tire in keeping alive the possibility of a more harmonious and sustainable balance with Nature. I trust the fragrant smell of humus, the soil, as the regenerative foundation that Mother Earth offers us unconditionally, alive energy that expresses itself. I chose a specific palette of sounds for this solo album, with a different preparation for each improvised piece and also I let myself be influenced by some resonances from native music of the Mapuche people and Argentinian folk music."-Ada Rave