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About Me


It’s Saturday night in Brooklyn. Far beyond the reach of the club scene, a crowd of tattooed artists, jazzheads, and DIY scenesters gather on the rooftop of an old factory out in Bushwick. It’s the home base for the Suite Unraveling, a band that even in the wilds of this artists’ neighborhood is entirely unique. Saxophones battle the driving drums, videos play across an old water tower, and fiery redhead Lily Maase shoulders her guitar and begins to play.
The Suite Unraveling is a band that doesn’t quite know what to call itself, which suits Maase just fine; “let them show up at our shows and tell us what it is,” she says. She’s focused on her music, taking her experiences – of growing up in the Southwest, of going to art school in rural Texas, of living in the belly of the urban elephant – and folding them together into fractured, impressionistic, narrative songs.
Though Maase may write the music, the band brings it to life, and her stories takes shape through close collaboration with her bandmates—saxophonists Evan Smith and Peter Van Huffel, bassist Matt Wigton and drummer Fred Kennedy. The resulting music is lively and danceable, raw yet intimate, and leaps easily from jazz to indie rock to the avant garde without losing its own sense of style.
The Suite Unraveling at Monduna Volume 2:
the suite unraveling - "Anaphora" at Monduna from Drayton Hiers on Vimeo .
The Suite Unraveling at Zebulon:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/21/2004
Band Website: lilymaase.com
Band Members: theSuiteUnraveling is...
Lily Maase
(guitar/compositions)
Adam Kinner
(saxophone)
Evan Smith
(saxophone)
Matt Wigton
(bass)
Fred Kennedy
(drums)

Our debut CD, unbind was released in Brooklyn by the Addtract Composers' Label on October 11, and was released nationally at the Cornelia Street Cafe on November 30. Check CDBaby for a copy of the disc.

Influences: People. Places. Things.
Sounds Like: creative music
Record Label: addtract
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rainy Day Brooklyn Show Tonight

Hey Y'all,So last night we had another big rooftop gathering at BDPW, this time with another installment of "Umami", Laura Braslow's culinary extravaganza for 90 people. (Yes. 90.) With outdoor carpe...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:48:00 PST

Notes from the road... Boston to San Francisco to Chicago

Greetings!Lily Maase writing from a coffee shop in Chicago in the midst of my 'accidental' tour from coast to coast of our fairest and most confusing country.Last week found me an hour outside of Bost...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:36:00 PST

New Song Posted on Last FM

Hey Everyone,You can now find the suite unraveling on last.fm, one of our favorite sites for sharing, streaming and discovering great music. We're kicking off our page with a last.fm exclusive: a liv...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:10:00 PST

Zebulon Next Week! (Ive been forbidden to call this...

So I’ve been forbidden by Lily to refer to the April 10 Zebulon show as "pirate jazz", because it might create the wrong impression. But when you see the line up we have for you next Thursday, ...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:32:00 PST

Goodbye Blue Monday Show Re-Schedule

Hey Everyone,So it's a bit of a sad day over here at Addtract HQ, where we've had to re-schedule a performance at one of our very favorite venues here in New York, Goodbye Blue Monday. As you all kno...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:35:00 PST

Escape from Valentine’s Day - Music. Video. Art. No Candy Hearts.

"Won't You Be Our Un-Valentine?"Already dreading Valentine's Day? We've got the solution. Come help celebrate this most questionable of holidays with the most questionable of genre-bending bands, th...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:54:00 PST

Brooklyn Invades Manhattan (CD Release Party, Friday, November 30)

The Suite Unraveling is throwing a double header of a CD release party this Friday night at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Remember how Manhattan used to be a dangerous, exciting, raw place? Well, for ou...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:50:00 PST

Notes from the road... Cedar Rapids, Iowa

All I can say about playing a wedding in the heart of middle America is, how did I end up in a country club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with my guitar, and why did these people feel like it was a good idea ...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:59:00 PST

Notes from the road... Montreal, again (and again. and again.)

Back in Montreal.It's funny how your life overlaps, and youc an be in the same place in the same way at the same time, only time has gone on and things are different but somewhow very much unchanged.L...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:35:00 PST

Bushwick&Beyond Art Party Tour

June 1-5theSuiteUnraveling's Bushwick&Beyond Art-Party TourFriday, June 1theSuiteUnraveling plays the Cellar Door ShowLily Maase - guitar; Peter Van Huffel and Evan Smith, saxophones; Matt Wigton, bas...
Posted by the suite unraveling on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:48:00 PST