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In the decade or so that hard-working New York quartetSunwatchershave operated, the group has steadily & subtly refined their sound – a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, & Saharan blues – into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz & experimental music fan & weird & wooly enough to get the trueheads toes tapping.Music Is Victory Over Timeis the bands 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the long-running lineup ofPeter Kerlin(bass guitar),Jim McHugh(guitars),Jason Robira(drums), andJeff Tobias(alto saxophone and keyboards) in prime form.
The albums beguiling title stems from a note scrawled in a book about electronic music donated toPITGOOSE Prisoner Books, the grassroots prison literature program run out ofThe P.I.T.(akaProperty Is Theft- McHughs Anarchist community space, venue, and info-shop located in Los Sures, Williamsburg). Scrawled as marginalia modifying a paragraph about durational minimalist composition, the concept illuminates musics material and spiritual power to subdue the sensation of the passage of time, both as an experiential phenomenon and as a creative, communal, and socio-political force. McHugh says:The notion resonated with our individual and communal experiences of loss, trauma, stasis, and frustration since 2020, our three-year semi-silence as a band relative to our previous characteristic prolificacy, and our progress, projects, and evolution since.
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