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Where to start with Billy Cobham
Start with Anxiety — Spectrum, 1973. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 11 Billy Cobham tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 11 Billy Cobham tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 11 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Anxiety — Spectrum, 1973. Of the 11 Billy Cobham tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
Only one entry point is offered for Billy Cobham. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
Where Billy Cobham sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Billy Cobham's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 59 | 50–60 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 81 | 80–88 | ambient → driving |
| density | 70 | 70–75 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 80 | 80–80 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Spectrum | 1973 | 11 |
Every Billy Cobham track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Anxiety | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Le Lis | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Quadrant 4 | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Red Baron | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Searching for the Right Door | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Snoopy's Search | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Spectrum | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Stratus | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Taurian Matador | Spectrum | 1973 |
| To the Women in My Life | Spectrum | 1973 |
| Anxiety Taurian Matador | Spectrum | 2005 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Billy Cobham's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with T-SQUARE — jazz fusion, 12 tracks
- Where to start with CASIOPEA — jazz fusion, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Fela Kuti — afrobeat, 13 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Billy Cobham as a solo artist, from Colón, Switzerland and born in 1944. Its contributors tag the artist funk, jazz, jazz fusion, jazz pop and jazz rock. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Billy Cobham tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 11, across 1 album. 11 of them carry a date, running from 1973 to 2005. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 11 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 11 of these 11 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.