Lily Maase & The Suite Unraveling / Ravish Momin’s Trio Tarana

A native New Mexican, ex-Texan, and now New Yorker, Lily Maase is an adventurous guitarist, composer, and teacher. She has performed and recorded as a jazz, classical, and rock musician, including a 2007 stint with the all-girl pop sensations, the Lascivious Biddies. Maase currently performs with Greg Heffernan’s Sauce, the Walter Thompson Orchestra, Elliott Sharp’s 14-guitar ensemble SyndaKit, singer-songwriters Nikki Kelly and Nisha Asnani, and serves as the creative director of the Addtract Consortium, a Brooklyn-based music initiative “dedicated to exploring the nexus between the creative process as personal actualization and performance media as a community action.” The Suite Unraveling is a Brooklyn-based performance art initiative combining elements of songwriting, improvised film, and avant-garde jazz, for which she is the musical director, guitarist, and sole composer. The 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.” It features Lily Maase, guitar/voice/compositions; Mike Kammers, saxophone; Greg Heffernan, cello/electronics; Alex Mallett, bass/voice; and Nico Dann, drums.

Percussionist and composer, Ravish Momin spent his childhood in Mumbai and Bahrain. Moving to the U.S. he studied with Andrew Cyrille, Bob Moses, and Ian Froman as well as North Indian Classical percussionist Misha Masud, a disciple of Pandit Taranath Rao. Formed in 2003, Trio Tarana, features the unique instrumentation of violin, cello and percussion, utilizing East-Asian, Middle-Eastern and North African rhythms. They have released two critically acclaimed CDs and have appeared at venues worldwide. TimeOUTLondon describes them as “compelling, pan-global jazz that blends Indian, Japanese, Afghani and Indonesian rhythms in surprising and exciting ways.” Led by Ravish Momin on drums, percussion and voice, the trio also features Skye Steele, violin; and Greg Heffernan, cello and electronics.

$15/$10 Members & Students.
Available in advance, by phone or in person, at the Outpost Performance Space (268-0044)