my comfort zones are 60's baroque pop and 70's prog rock.
At the moment I'm trying to get into hard rock/metal and jazz.
I strongly, strongly recommend you start with Mingus Ah Um for jazz. The evolution of jazz since the 1920s was quick, and very preventative of a defining snapshot of the genre ever truly being taken. Ah Um gets about as close as you can get to capturing the broad "jazz" sound and context, never limiting itself based on technique. King of Blue is a more traditional starting point, but is strictly in the modal tradition. Plus, Mingus could kick Davis's ass.
My "to listen" list is never-ending, and it's pretty easy to find great albums from each genre, so I don't think I'll ever need recommendations tbh. Kinda removes the social aspect of sharing music, but oh well.
(for now at least; at some point I could probably use recommendations for really niche genres)
How about lowercase? Look up Forms of Paper by Steve Roden - it's an album that's consists entirely of the sound of paper being shuffled. Except, the sounds are played with in such a way that they sound absolutely nothing like paper. Makes for some pretty great ambient minimalism - if you're into that whole sort of shtick. I listen to it whenever I want to get some work done.
Also, you could check out some Japanoise. Look up Forgotten Land by Merzbow - which is pretty much the polar opposite of lowercase. Just make sure you have your speakers on low when you listen to him.
For jazz check out Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme if you haven't already.
Also check out:
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & Sinner Lady
Charlie Parker - Boss Bird
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
Ahmed Abdul Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa
and some Herbie Hancock
I highly recommend all of those.
As for hard rock, check out Kyuss.
Thanks for the recs, Zapruder (and weedygonzalez).
I have heard a few of those and the rest will be listened to in time, but I've decided to start with jazz that is based around the piano (which is another comfort zone of mine): Bill Evans, Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett etc.
^ Have you ever tried Ryoji Ikeda, Bernard Parmegiani, or Li Jianhong?
Bernard Parmegiani I have in my backlog. I don't even know why. I dl'd an album of his from a sharethread a while back.
Ikeda - he sounds interesting. Looked up Ikeda's profile on Last and his description seems pretty interesting. As for Jianhong - I like how rhythmic the harsh noise he makes is. There are some very nice textures in the content I've listened to by him.
the main thing I'm uncomfortable with are aggressive drone and operatic metal (not looking for recs for these though). I guess my comforts are indie-pop and post-rock. here's some world music for some of my favorite instruments:
kora - this piece is good, but this shit can be slowed down and become more psychedelic than anything ever
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