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Where to start with Weather Report
Start with D-Flat Waltz — Domino Theory, 1984. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 14 Weather Report 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 14 Weather Report 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 tracks are filed across 4 genres, most often jazz, eclectic and punk, so the room does not treat this as a single-shelf artist.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
D-Flat Waltz — Domino Theory, 1984. Of the 13 Weather Report tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 1 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Waterfall — Weather Report, 1971. The lowest energy reading of any Weather Report track in the room (45 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
The Orphan — 8:30, 1979. The highest energy reading here, at 75 out of 100 — a 30-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Weather Report 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 Weather Report's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 57 | 45–65 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 64 | 45–75 | ambient → driving |
| density | 64 | 50–74 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 65 | 52–75 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Black Market | 1970 | 3 |
| Mr. Gone | 1978 | 2 |
| Tale Spinnin' | 1975 | 2 |
| I Sing The Body Electric | 1972 | 1 |
| Sweetnighter | 1973 | 1 |
| Domino Theory | 1984 | 1 |
| Sportin' Life | 1985 | 1 |
| Weather Report | 1971 | 1 |
| 8:30 | 1979 | 1 |
| Mysterious Traveler | 1974 | 1 |
Every Weather Report track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Elegant People (W. Shorter) | Black Market | 1970 |
| Herrandnu | Black Market | 1970 |
| Waterfall | Weather Report | 1971 |
| The Moors | I Sing The Body Electric | 1972 |
| 125th Street Congress | Sweetnighter | 1973 |
| American Tango | Mysterious Traveler | 1974 |
| Between The Thighs | Tale Spinnin' | 1975 |
| Lusitanos | Tale Spinnin' | 1975 |
| Barbary Coast | Black Market | 1976 |
| The Elders | Mr. Gone | 1978 |
| The Pursuit Of The Woman With The Feathered Hat | Mr. Gone | 1978 |
| The Orphan | 8:30 | 1979 |
| D-Flat Waltz | Domino Theory | 1984 |
| Corner Pocket | Sportin' Life | 1985 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Weather Report's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Charles Mingus — jazz, 21 tracks
- Where to start with Hermeto Pascoal — jazz, 31 tracks
- Where to start with Miles Davis — jazz, 34 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Weather Report as a group, from the United States and formed in 1971. Its contributors tag the artist rock, jazz, fusion, jazz rock and jazz fusion. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Weather Report tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 14, across 10 albums. 14 of them carry a date, running from 1970 to 1985. 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. 13 of these 14 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
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.