For the next week, all profits from digital releases on Doek RAW will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
For the new album “Cease Fire” from the duo sometimes known as Mofaya!, all profits will ALWAYS go to MAP.
Check out our catalogue featuring new work from The Ambush Party, also available on a limited edition tape.
A fantastic solo offering from Ada Rave.
Our Doek Composes series.…
The quartet of John Dikeman, Pat Thomas, John Edwards and Steve Noble just finished their second tour, a brief stint in the UK, to a glowing review in the Wire. Both albums from their 2019 concert at Cafe Oto are now available on LP from NYC based 577 Records.
Don’t miss them live in Belgium on May 29 for the Citadelic Festival in Gent.
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Release concert at De Ruimte October 7
‘A grain of Earth’ is the first solo venture and expression of several years of working with instant composition and the timbral possibilities of an acoustic piano. This has been wrapped in an idea of realities beyond our perception, and a thought that we are a part of a big organism where everything goes endlessly bigger and smaller in scale of size, time and speed. Everything moves in constantly interfering waves of energy; echoing and reflecting, in ceaseless dance of creation and destruction.…
Concerts in the USA
09/22 Merriman’s Playhouse, South Bend, IN
09/23 Spot Tavern, Lafayette, IN
09/24 Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Logan Center for the Arts (Univ of Chicago), IL
Amsterdam
10/19 De Ruimte
…“”The shit swings like mad, with reedist Keefe Jackson out front blazing melodic puzzles and the rhythm section playing with time like taffy. Every once in a while I need that reminder of why I love jazz, and here it is.”
Ada Rave – saxophones
Onno Govaert – drums
Aaron Lumley – double bass
“Bioluminus is a combustion machine of musical ideas and interaction. Ada Rave’s tenor playing has always boasted a voluminous tone and great control over extended techniques, but this trio with bassist Aaron Lumley and drummer Onno Govaert allows her to emphasize her melodic and harmonically based playing which is full of grit and vigor, to say nothing of the swinging, breathing rhythmic interplay amongst these three equal musical partners.…