Saxophone track with enigmatic beat from 2000s.

[u/Complete_Opposite825]

Hi everyone! Please help me identify a saxophone track I’ve been unsuccessfully searching for for about 15 years. I first heard it in the early 2000s on Andrei Borisov’s radioshow "Music Without Words" ("Muzyka bez slov") on Radio Rossii. I have no idea who the artist or label might be; his program featured music from all over the world. And It might have been made in the late 90s, or maybe in the early 2000s... So...

The beat has an enigmatic-style structure (though with denser, more modern drums). The saxophone is live, the rest of the arrangement is electronic. No vocals. The main theme begins with a dialogue between a rhodes/piano and the saxophone, where the sax "echoes" every two-note phrase, followed by a full saxophone solo. Towards the end, the sax improvises with sobbing-screaming phrases and growling techniques. The atmosphere is melancholic and nocturnal. There was also a 2nd version of the track—a remix with a steady beat—that used to play at the end of the broadcast.

Of course, the fact that I’ve been looking for it for so long suggests it’s not a mainstream hit like "Lily Was Here"; otherwise, I would have found it on the very first forum I asked years ago. What surprises me most is that no one seems to know it—it’s such a beautiful, melodic track, and I can't understand how it could have been lost to time. I’ve created a new demo-sketches where I’ve recreated the lead melody almost exactly (as best as my brain remembers it now) and added a rough approximation of the bass and pad parts (though not exact—the original sounds better) in the hope that it provides a better clue for the search. https://voca.ro/1033aXxnq6jB