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Where to start with Caetano Veloso
Start with Nostalgia — Transa, 1972. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 14 Caetano Veloso tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 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 14 Caetano Veloso 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 14 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 collection leans hard on one record: 7 of the 14 tracks come from Transa alone.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Nostalgia — Transa, 1972. Of the 12 Caetano Veloso tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 2 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Irene (excerpt) — Caetano Veloso, 1971. The lowest energy reading of any Caetano Veloso track in the room (30 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
You Don't Know Me — Transa, 1972. The highest energy reading here, at 62 out of 100 — a 32-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Caetano Veloso 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 Caetano Veloso's average coordinates and the range they cover.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transa | 1972 | 7 |
| Caetano Veloso | — | 3 |
| Qualquer Coisa | 1975 | 1 |
Every Caetano Veloso track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Irene (excerpt) | Caetano Veloso | 1971 |
| It's A Long Way | Transa | 1972 |
| Mora Na Filosofia | Transa | 1972 |
| Neolithic Man | Transa | 1972 |
| Nine Out Of Ten | Transa | 1972 |
| Nostalgia | Transa | 1972 |
| Triste Bahia | Transa | 1972 |
| You Don't Know Me | Transa | 1972 |
| For No One | Qualquer Coisa | 1975 |
| O Leãozinho | Caetano Veloso | 1985 |
| Medley: Nega Maluca / Billie Jean / Eleanor Rigby | Caetano Veloso | 1986 |
| 13 de maio | — | — |
| O Quereres | — | — |
| Queixa | — | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Caetano Veloso's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Lô Borges — mpb, 15 tracks
- Where to start with Marcos Valle — mpb, 17 tracks
- Where to start with Tim Maia — mpb, 13 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Caetano Veloso as a solo artist, from Santo Amaro, Brazil and born in 1942. Its contributors tag the artist mpb, tropicália, singer-songwriter and art pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Caetano Veloso tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 14, across 3 albums. 11 of them carry a date, running from 1971 to 1986. 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. 12 of these 14 tracks have been read that way. The other 2 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 14 of these 14 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.