Where to start with ESKA
Start with Gatekeeper — ESKA (10th Anniversary Edition), 2015. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 10 ESKA 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 10 ESKA 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 10 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: 8 of the 10 tracks come from The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman alone.
The years need a caveat: 8 of 10 dated tracks land in the 2020s and come from 1 record, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Gatekeeper — ESKA (10th Anniversary Edition), 2015. Of the 10 ESKA 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.
If you want the cerebral end
Daddy Long Legs — The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman, 2025. The lowest head/body reading of any ESKA track in the room (45 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Wake Me Up / Magic Woman — The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman, 2025. The highest head/body reading here, at 65 out of 100 — a 20-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where ESKA 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 ESKA's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 65 | 60–72 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 53 | 45–60 | ambient → driving |
| density | 54 | 50–58 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 58 | 45–65 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 | 8 |
| ESKA (10th Anniversary Edition) | 2015 | 2 |
Every ESKA track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| English Sky | ESKA (10th Anniversary Edition) | 2015 |
| Gatekeeper | ESKA (10th Anniversary Edition) | 2015 |
| Human | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2023 |
| All The Way Down | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
| Daddy Long Legs | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
| Fazerfolk | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
| Snoozing Friends | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
| The Edge | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
| Touch | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
| Wake Me Up / Magic Woman | The Ordinary Life Of A Magic Woman | 2025 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to ESKA's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Herbie Hancock — jazz, 16 tracks
- Where to start with Miles Davis — jazz, 34 tracks
- Where to start with Weather Report — jazz, 14 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists ESKA as a solo artist and from the United Kingdom. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many ESKA tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 10, across 2 albums. 10 of them carry a date, running from 2015 to 2025. 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 10 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 10 of these 10 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.