Jim Goetsch


The music of Jim Goetsch is the product of a widely divergent background that includes extensive jazz experience on saxophone, performance of avant garde classical works on clarinet and bass clarinet, tours with blues legend Albert King and Senegalese griot Mor Thiam, and a long history of performing electronic music in the Los Angeles area. He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2021.During his last years in L.A., he was part of Baker’s Brew, an experimental electronic jazz ensemble led by the late veteran drummer Maury Baker, which featured total improvisation pieces as well as the group improvising over four channel electronic compositions by Jim. Their release “New Works” on Jim's Psychosomatic Records label was hailed as “An Album of the Future” by the Italian magazine JAZZit.His current projects include Present Moment, another total improv electronic jazz group, this one based in Santa Fe. They recently released their first record "Now" on Psychosomatic.



Dave Wayne


I’m a self-taught drummer & percussionist who’s been a part of the Santa Fe music scene since 1993. I’m playing original instrumental music with Love Unfold The Sun and the improvising ensemble Present Moment. In years past, I’ve played blues with the Gagan Brothers, punk with Bichos, progressive rock with Bing, Shatner Powerslide, and Octaveleven, funk with Shake Alert, and instrumental post-rock with Fire For The People. However, most of my musical endeavors have been in the jazz realm with Protuberance, Zimbabwe Nkenya, OrnEtc, Love Unfold The Sun, and Present Moment. I’ve also had the good fortune to perform with notable jazz musicians such as Chris Jonas, Mustafa Stefan Dill, Kim Stone, Delbert Anderson, Brian Haas, Thollem McDonas, Dan Clucas, Jeff Platz, Andrew Lamb, Jack Wright, and Michael Vlatkovich.

In 2009, I composed my own original pieces and formed a band – The Things That Are Heard – to play them. The band lasted for 18 torrid months, ~16 months longer than expected. Although none of that music was recorded, my playing can be heard on a fistful of albums - privately issued and on labels such as pfMENTUM, Plutonium, Snowdonia, and Zerx.I’m especially proud of the music on 2 of these albums: “These Times” by OrnEtc. (2016, self-released), and “Hotend: the Music of Julius Hemphill” by Do Tell (2015, Amirani Records).

In addition to playing the drums, I maintain a record collecting vlog on YouTube called “Cheap Heat”. I have also written numerous music reviews for various online publications, and could also write some really sweet liner notes for your next release!

Chris McMahon


As a young bass player I had the honor of opening for the Count Basie Band. Twice. Then after a couple of years playing the blues with Sammy Blue (who would go on to work with Taj Mahal), I was playing bass for the newly-formed Indigo Girls. After that I was backing Gerard McHugh on upright acoustic bass— we played SXSW in 1991 and in 1992 we did ten shows on the Indigo Girls+Matthew Sweet ‘Rites of Passage’ tour, playing for ten thousand people every night. We got standing ovations. Then I was in a number of popular Atlanta acoustic folk/Americana bands and toured relentlessly from Florida to Virginia and out west in Colorado and Wyoming. I made a bunch of records around then. I’ve shared the stage with everyone from Michael Nesmith of The Monkees to a teenage Derek Trucks, from The Marshall Tucker Band to Shawn Mullins. Amy Lee, music director for Jimmy Buffett for many years filled in on saxophone in my long-time Atlanta jazz band, the Seven Steps Jazz Quartet. I quit the music business in the late 1990s although you may have heard me playing jazz in Durango CO. It’s good to be back playing bass in Santa Fe.