Not really what I’m listening to, but since this feels like the closest thing to a music general active on any of the forums I frequent, I’ll ask here and beg forgiveness if its considered too off topic…
So, most modern music, across a wide variety of genres is built around the quartet of vocals, lead guitar, bass guitar, and drums, something I’ve come to think of as the guitar quartet, and sometimes there will be a fifth person on rhythm guitar or keyboard(usually piano for acoustic bands, synth for electric bands). Or at least, that’s the impression I get.
But given the ubiquity of acts built around guitar and drums, it’s got me wondering about less common instrumentation. I’ve already come across a number of YouTubers who adapt pop, rock, metal, etc. songs for violin or piano, but I find myself wondering about songs, albums, and acts with say, woodwind, brass, or melodic* percussion heavy instrumentation, especially if they are using instruments you wouldn’t find in a Classical European Orchestra.
*Is this the correct term to distinguish percussion instruments that play many different notes from those used primarily for rhythm or to keep a beat?
I’m not too picky on genre or song language, my music library includes, among other things rock, metal, country, pop, classical, and baroque and Songs in English, Japanese, Chinese(probably Mandarin, but can’t rule out Cantonese), German, Italian, Latin, several I can’t recognize(I own a few Eurovision compilation albums)… Actually, while I’m curious about instrumentation beyond Guitars, drums, Violin, and piano, I’ll also take recommendations for Non-English, Non-Japanese acts in general…