Biography
Sunwatchers is an American instrumental quartet based in New York City comprising drummer Jason Robira, alto saxophonist Jeff Tobias, bassist Peter Kerlin, and Jim McHugh on electric phin (a stringed Thai instrument). Three of them (McHugh, Tobias and Robira) were members of Dark Meat.
The band debuted with the cassette "Tomb Howl" in 2014.
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Their eponymous debut album was released in 2016.
Sun Worship was self-released in 2017, recorded live with added guitarist Justin Frye.
Sunwatchers II was released on Trouble In Mind in 2018.
Their double-album 3 Characters (Amish, 2018) was a collaboration with Eugene Chadbourne, as Eugene Chadbourne & Sunwatchers, that reinterpreted the music of the Minutemen, of Doug Sahm and of Henry Flynt.
Illegal Moves was released on Trouble In Mind in 2019.
This was followed by "Oh Yeah?" in 2020 and "Music Is Victory Over Time" in 2023.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.