Great music few are aware of. Any genre.

Les Nubians first album:Princesses Nubiennes, was released by Virgin worldwide in France, Switzerland, and Belgium in June 1998 before coming out on Omtown/Higher Octave in the U.S. in September of that year. It became America's most successful French-language album in more than a decade. Total love-making music. Strongly suggested you listen with another human of your choice.

I’ve been listening to a lot of the Stockfisch label recordings (per Hifiman5) over the past few days, and they’ve been bringing me much pleasure.  Thanks for the tip!

@bdp24 

" Emerson got a lot of credit for being a "Classically" trained keyboardist playing Rock music. He did that, though, not by using Classical compositional knowledge to create new, song-form music, but rather by playing music written by Classical composers for an orchestra, in a Rock band."

This was only a small amount of Emerson's material. Most of his output were original compositions, informed by classical composition.

Tarkus, Karnevil 9, Take a Pebble, The Endless Enigma, Trilogy, just to name a few. 

@stmike   My pleasure!  The "Closer to the Music" samplers are awesome.  No throwaway cuts at all.  If you haven't already done so, try to get a Stockfisch DMM-CD/SACD.  Fantastic sound quality!

rob, I like your style.

Further down the rabbit hole of epic stoner Doom Metal:

Sons of Otis -- Songs for Worship
Conan -- Blood Eagle
Bongripper -- Miserable

And, no one on this forum will like or be ready for this, but super fresh absolutely brilliant technical death core:

Rings of Saturn -- LugaL KI En

So many metal subgenres in my collection, don't tempt me to share further.

Resolving a violin concerto is one thing, but take one of these titles to a dealer to audition some gear. They might give you the piece for free to get you out of the store (almost a true story).