the suite unraveling

Fresh from the Brooklyn underground, guitarist/composer Lily Maase is at the forefront of the arts movement sweeping through the recently-reclaimed industrial neighborhood known as Bushwick, where she has built fully-equipped stages onto warehouse rooftops, recorded music in cavernous basements and abandoned churches, and built a multimedia experience around her new music ensemble, the Suite Unraveling, with her own two hands.




More rock band than jazz quintet, yet playing music more improvised than composed, Lily and the Suite have one foot planted in the world of rock and roll and the other firmly in the avant-garde, embracing influences as broad as Ornette Coleman, electronic music, and guitar heroes from the days of yore. The goal? To create something honest and new, steeped in the sensibility of simpler times, but reaching with reckless abandon into the sonic landscape that lays ahead.




Music for Robots, the Suite Unraveling's sophomore release, was released in digital and hand-printed compact disc formats April 2010. The band tours relentlessly and has performed everywhere from surf bars in Long Beach to universities in Albuquerque to DIY art spaces in Montreal. In fall 2011 they will open for TuNe-YaRdS in NYC's famed new music venue, Le Poisson Rouge, act as artists-in-residence at Texas A&M University, and record their first EP as a power trio.
In 2010, they spent most of the year getting evicted from their amazing loft space in Greenpoint, which turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to them. You can learn all about it here: