Where to start with Tim Maia
Start with Verão Carioca — Tim Maia (1978), 1977. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 Tim Maia 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 13 Tim Maia 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 13 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: 12 of the 13 tracks come from Tim Maia (1978) alone.
The years need a caveat: 13 of 13 dated tracks land in the 1970s and come from 2 records, 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 mpb; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The density knob swings 53 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Verão Carioca — Tim Maia (1978), 1977. Of the 13 Tim Maia 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
Lamento — Tim Maia, 1972. The lowest density reading of any Tim Maia track in the room (12 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.
If you want the wall end
É Necessário — Tim Maia (1978), 1977. The highest density reading here, at 65 out of 100 — a 53-point swing across the collection towards wall.
Where Tim Maia 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 Tim Maia'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 | 12 |
| Tim Maia | 1972 | 1 |
Every Tim Maia track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Lamento | Tim Maia | 1972 |
| Feito para Dançar | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Flores Belas - Instrumental | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Let It All Hang Out | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Leva o Meu Blue | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Música para Betinha | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Não Esquente a Cabeça | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Pense Menos | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Ride Twist And Roll | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Sem Você | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Venha Dormir em Casa | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| Verão Carioca | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
| É Necessário | Tim Maia (1978) | 1977 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Tim Maia's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Marcos Valle — mpb, 17 tracks
- Where to start with Caetano Veloso — mpb, 14 tracks
- Where to start with Lô Borges — mpb, 15 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Tim Maia as a solo artist, from Rio de Janeiro and born in 1942. Its contributors tag the artist singer-songwriter, mpb, funk, soul and disco. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Tim Maia tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 2 albums. 13 of them carry a date, running from 1972 to 1977. 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 13 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 13 of these 13 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.