Going to be using this track in my game, love these sounds, think they’ll go great in the Abandoned City (was going to be a city but I hated the tileset so I kept what I had done and reworked it, it’s going to have an underground “fight” club in there now.)
The Messthetics are guitarist Anthony Pirog with drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally of Fugazi. For this album, they join forces with acclaimed jazz tenor saxophonist, composer and bandleader James Brandon Lewis.
When I think of New Mexico and music, I think of Grant Hayunga. (I may be the only person outside of New Mexico for whom that sentence is a true statement.) Hayunga records as Goshen. My CD collection includes two Goshen albums, but neither of them seems to be online. These more recent recordings are fairly representative, though:
There’s a Facebook Reels/TikTok video of a guy playing the saxophone next to a pipeline. And it’s so awesome, but only about a minute long. In my YouTube rabbit hole, I stumbled across the entire four minute video. And it’s GLORIOUS.