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Where to start with Michael Brook
Start with Shona Bridge — Cobalt Blue, 1992. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 12 Michael Brook 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 12 Michael Brook 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 12 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 ambient; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Shona Bridge — Cobalt Blue, 1992. Of the 12 Michael Brook 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 Michael Brook. 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 Michael Brook 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 Michael Brook'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cobalt Blue | 1992 | 12 |
Every Michael Brook track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Andean | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Breakdown | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Hawaii | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Lakbossa | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Red Shift | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Shona Bridge | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Skip Wave | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Slipstream | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Slow Breakdown | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Ten | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Ultramarine | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
| Urbana | Cobalt Blue | 1992 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Michael Brook's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Brian Eno — ambient, 32 tracks
- Where to start with Mary Lattimore — ambient, 20 tracks
- Where to start with Hiroshi Yoshimura — ambient, 34 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Michael Brook as a solo artist, from Toronto, Canada and born in 1951. Its contributors tag the artist canadian, ambient, film score, qawwali and film soundtrack. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Michael Brook tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 12, across 1 album. 12 of them carry a date, running from 1992 to 1992. 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 12 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 12 of these 12 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.