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Where to start with Marc Ribot
Start with Aqui Como Alla — Y Los Cubanos Postizos, 1998. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 10 Marc Ribot 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 Marc Ribot 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 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.
Every track is filed under latin; nothing here crosses into another genre.
One caveat worth stating: the knob positions across these tracks barely move, which usually means they were set in a batch rather than one at a time. Treat the coordinates below as approximate.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Aqui Como Alla — Y Los Cubanos Postizos, 1998. All 10 Marc Ribot tracks here carry the same reading, so the knobs cannot single one out. This is the pick from among them that the room can name a record and a year for, which is the most an entry point needs in order to be findable. A better answer waits on somebody listening track by track.
Only one entry point is offered for Marc Ribot. The room holds a single reading for this artist rather than one per track, so every track here sits at the same coordinate and there are no opposite ends to point at. That is a gap in what has been listened to, not a claim that the music never moves.
Where Marc Ribot 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 Marc Ribot's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 62 | 62–62 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 62 | 62–62 | ambient → driving |
| density | 60 | 60–60 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 72 | 72–72 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 | 10 |
Every Marc Ribot track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Aqui Como Alla | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Aurora En Pekin | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Chostero Plena | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Como Se Goza En El Barrio | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Esclavo Triste | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Fiesta En El Solar | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| La Vida Es Un Suendo | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Los Teenagers Bailan Changui | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| No Me Llores Mas | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
| Postizo | Y Los Cubanos Postizos | 1998 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Marc Ribot's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
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What the open databases say
This room has no MusicBrainz record for Marc Ribot, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.
Questions
How many Marc Ribot tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 10, across 1 album. 10 of them carry a date, running from 1998 to 1998. 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, not by audio analysis and not from a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. For Marc Ribot the room holds one reading covering the whole catalogue rather than a separate one for each track, so all 10 sit at the same coordinate. It is a real judgement about the artist, and a coarser one than a per-track number would be.
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.