Looking for new genres...


Looking to add something new to my CD collection,.. to meet new genres. What could match the following criterias: to be Music with capital letter, but not to belong directly to Jazz, Blues, Classics, or Folk (derivatives are acceptable)?
For example: MA has several recordings, which originally are folk-based, but in reality are too complex and rich musical pieces to be called Folk. Another thing would be "Requiem for my friend" by Preisner - beautiful and modern work, nicely derived from Classics but isn't belonging to it...
Do you have anything like those?..
dmitrydr

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Punk rock despite being nowdays already too trivial and traditional has a unique blends with other styles if applied with contemporary literacy:
How'bout Country Punk?
Positively I'd define the genre that is performed by "Frigg a go-go" band.
Jazz Punk is more famous and can be represented by more bands such as "Lounge Lizards", "Curlew", "Pere Ubu"(previousely playing at more traditional punk rock)... George Cartwright from Curlew had made his few solo albums in similar style.
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Jazz derivatives and some examples
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Jazz have lots of different directions and styles but I wouldn't define anything well-known such as Jazz-Funk or Fussion...

Art-Jazz
I'd define something beyond improvisation - more close to the organized composition or opus that definitely may have all neccessary division of a classical composition such as prologue, development, coda or whichever applies. The composers and musicians that represent this genre are Phillip Johnston and Lindsay Cooper as far as my knowlege goes.

Progressive Jazz
I'd define as a blend of Fussion, Ambient and Funk together in one where musicians, composers although represent the same style but seem totally different from each other. I still can't distinguish Charlie Parker from Gerry Mulligan or Artie Show from Harry James because they represent the same style and play alike. That isn't the case with Progressive Jazz that had been evolved throughout years of musical development... The representatives of such style are too many but few of them are David Sylvian, Ruichi Sakamoto, Fish for Fish, Arsenal(Russia).