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Musical preferences: neoclasical(H.Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Borodin), progressive rock/avant prog(King Crimson,Univers Zero, Magma) ambient(The Angelic Process, Dead Can Dance, Eluvium, All My Faith Lost...), Jazz(Bohren & der Club of Gore, God, John Zorn, Terje Rypdal, Pink Freud, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy), hardcore punk(Converge, Envy, Rotten Sound), atmospheric metal(Godflesh, Katatonia, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Cult Of Luna, Neurosis, Skepticism, Evoken, Esoteric), post-rock(Yndi Halda, God Is An Astronaut, Godspeed You!Black Emperor), electronic(Scorn, Quoit, Venetian Snares, Navicon Tortrure Technologies), J-music(Dir En Grey, Kashiwa Daisuke, Mutyumu, Luna Sea, Gallhammer, some anime music)
Film directors: Robert Wiene, Ingmar Bergman, Андрей Тарковский [Andrey Tarkovskiy], 黒沢明 [Akira Kurosawa]. 小林正樹 [Masaki Kobayashi], Stanley Kubrick, 溝口健二 [Kenji Mizoguchi], Sergio Leone, Սարգիս Փարաջանյան [Sergei Parajanov], David Lynch, F. W. Murnau, Jan Švankmajer, Béla Tarr, 勅使河原宏 [Hiroshi Teshigahara], 张艺谋 [Zhang Yimou], 篠田正浩 [Masahiro Shinoda]
Writers: Franz Kafka, Fiodor Dostoevsky, Kobo Abe, John Milton, Shakespeare.
Artists: Gustav Klimt, Caspar David Friedriech, Kanō Eitoku
Political Ideology: Liberal/Freedom Politics (as opposite to the Left-social wing, not as nationalism. Doctrines represented by Hobbes, Tocqueville, Bentham, Constant, partly J.S.Mill)
Economocial Belief: Classical Liberalism(Hayek, Friedman, Von Misses, partly Nozick) and free-market capitalism. Definitely against Socialism and Collecitivsm.
I am interested in psychology, especially in Existentialism and Psychoanalysis.
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The thing with Fado is that it falls more into the school of folkloric/traditional music than that of regular popular music, making it rather difficult to give recommendations in the regular commercial LP format. Amália Rodrigues is pretty much the most well known Fado artist of the recorded era, so that's a good starting point. Carlos do Carmo, Francisco José, Manuel Fernandes, Alfredo Marceneiro and António Rocha are other relevant names you might want to take a look at. I don't really recomend listening to modern Fado, as it seems to have become, like most folkloric music, more about a fetishized object of historical interest than about the actual artistic expression. There are still some beautiful old-fashioned Fado clubs in Portugal, though.
Listening to the music being performed live in a concert room with good acoustics is definitely preferable. I never gave much thought to Brahms' 2nd besides it sounding pretty and apollonian until I watched Alexander Liebreich conduct the piece live here in my local Symphonic Orchestra.
And yes, of course, I'm familiar with Yuja Wang, she's one of the most celebrated pianists of this generation (I'm a bit envious that you got to see her live twice, not going to lie). She's very flashy, as you have put it. I think she excels in pieces that demand virtuosic playing, but I personally prefer more lyrical musicians, such as Helene Grimaud. Her multiple recordings of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major are simply delightful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRTWLQ4nI6Q&ab_channel=pri038
The labels you applied to Sinistro's music have got me wondering how it'd work out, as someone that listens to Fado and Portuguese music in general quite frequently.
This last band you linked, Endon, also surprised me, although in a different way, as I thought Noisecore was pretty much a dead genre. You're probably familiar with the japanese band Melt-Banana, their music is very nostalgic to me.
I'll also try and recommend some stuff you might not have listened to that might fit your taste. I'll try and have some diversity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ytDenklb1E&ab_channel=EmilyBront%C3%AB (Honegger's 2nd Symphony - A very compact work of sorts, Karajan gives the orchestra a very clear sound in this rendition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPu45WI60Gc&ab_channel=IrinaAleksandrova (One of my favourite pieces of traditional guitar music from my country interpreted by a rather unknown, although very impressive russian guitar player)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrWQndgX1QU&ab_channel=symbolkid (Bill Evans Trio - Emily. I'm not sure if this piece has been recorded other times. I've personally only listened to it through this YouTube video, but I think it achieves a perfect balance of harmony and rhytim that is very rare in Jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6SP3oy8nZE&ab_channel=RosemaryVentura (Paulinho Nogueira - Moça Triste da Chuva. I'm not versed in music theory, so I won't be able to give it a coherent explanation, but the guitar phrasing and the string orchestra in this recording just fill me with a profound sense of longing. Very lovely, romantic piece)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J48cbIJAmrY&ab_channel=angelalangellotti (Coil - Ostia, I'm not even sure if this is good music, it's simply very aesthetically coherent. I know you're into avant-garde music, so you'll probably find something of value in it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dty1BEiAk&ab_channel=FightMalcovich (Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity, Very epic, pretentious [in a good way] metal piece. The crescendo is as cheesy as it is glorious.)
(I discovered a lot of cool metal shit to listen to through your profile, by the way.)