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Where to start with Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes

Start with THEEM AND VARIATIONS — Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 14 Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes 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 Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes 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: 8 of the 14 tracks come from Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs alone.

Every dated track here falls between 2018 and 2021, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.

Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.

Three ways in

The one track, if you only play one

THEEM AND VARIATIONS — Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar, 2018. Of the 14 Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes 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 sparse end

Kiefer No Melody — Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar, 2018. The lowest density reading of any Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes track in the room (28 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.

If you want the wall end

STREETLEVEL — Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar More Songs, 2021. The highest density reading here, at 47 out of 100 — a 19-point swing across the collection towards wall.

Where Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes 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 Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes'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

Every Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes track in the room

Near neighbours in this room

These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.

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• Where to start with Thelonious Monk — jazz, 30 tracks

What the open databases say

This room has no MusicBrainz record for Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.

Questions

How many Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?

There are 14, across 2 albums. 14 of them carry a date, running from 2018 to 2021. 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 14 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 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.