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Ada Rave

Ada Rave is an Argentinian saxophonist, improviser and composer. Ada’s instrumental approach is based on research into a wide variety of techniques, conventional and unorthodox, which allow her to create a highly personal narrative in real time composition. In addition to her ability to perform with an incredible degree of abstraction, she also boasts one of the boldest tenor sounds around.
As a young child, Ada grew up in rural Patagonia before moving to Buenos Aires where she finished her primary education and began performing as a musician. She was an active part of the local jazz scene but became interested in improvised music and composition quite early, which led her to lead ensembles of her own that performed at venues and festivals all over Argentina

Peel/Mondo

By Ada Rave

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Peel/Mondo; Tale Before Sunrise; In The Capricious Garden; First Strawberries; Rain Into Flood.

Ada Rave & Marta Warelis: Peel/Mondo

by John Sharpe
May 19, 2026

On Peel/Mondo, two distinctive voices sport in adventurous communion. Polish pianist Marta Warelis and Argentinean saxophonist Ada Rave first met as part of the fertile Amsterdam scene. As a result, they know each other well, so the empathy and highly attuned responsiveness they display on these six collective inventions from a 2024 concert performance comes as ...

The Unseen Pact

By Sofia Borges

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: What the Earth Remembers; Sudden Spark; Trance of Epiphany; Ashes, Tea and Anarchy; Ritual Unmade; Nomadic Route; What the Fire Forgot.

Sofia Borges: The Unseen Pact

by Hrayr Attarian
December 20, 2025

German percussionist Sofia Borges explores unique time signatures in her work, drawing on an eclectic range of influences. Meanwhile, Argentinian saxophonist Ada Rave is a dynamic improviser. A deep sensitivity beautifully balances her bold, striking style. The stimulating The Unseen Pact is the result of Borges and Rave's poignant collaboration. It showcases a deep camaraderie and ...

Bioluminus

By Ada Rave

Label: Doek/RAW
Released: 2023
Track listing: 9th Of June; 8th Of May.

Ada Rave / Aaron Lumley / Onno Govaert: Bioluminus

by Mark Corroto
March 19, 2023

We can no longer refer to the music and creative Amsterdam scene with the title coined by author Kevin Whitehead as the New Dutch Swing. His 1998 book of the same name described the origins of the free jazz movement in The Netherlands and its now legendary masters such as Misha Mengelberg, Willem Breuker, Han Bennink, ...

Kaja Draksler, Susana Santos Silva: Grow

by Mark Corroto
November 27, 2022

Music is sound, but is sound music? For John Cage, sound was indeed music. His avant-garde experiments with silence, environmental sounds, and prepared instruments opened up an entire world for discovery and others' improvisations. Even though he disliked the concept of improvisation, preferring chance to a musician's choices, our modern and post-modern free improvisation world has ...

Punkt. Vrt. Plastik: Zurich Concert

by John Sharpe
October 25, 2022

Over the course of the five years since its inception, Punkt. Vrt. Plastik, the trio of Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler, Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and German drummer Christian Lillinger, has become one of the premier bands on the European circuit. Definitive proof arrives in the shape of Zurich Concert, the threesome's third album, recorded at the ...

Melt

By Susana Santos Silva

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Fading Icebergs; Tidal Phase; At Daybreak; In Oscillation; Diving Bells; Turbulent Flow.