Have you heard about a brand-new Apple Music documentary mini-series about the creative processes behind some of the biggest songs? Allow us to fill you in with details.
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Watch “The Spark”, Apple Music’s new mini documentary series
The series is dubbed “The Spark,” with the first episode available on YouTube for free.
The seven-minute video focuses on Cuco, a Hawthorne, California-based singer, songwriter and record producer. Known in the real world as Omar Banos, Cuco gives us a glimpse into his creative process and explains how he wrote his trippy new track, titled “Under the Sun”.
From the video description:
In Episode One, we follow Mexican American singer-songwriter and visionary indie artist, Cuco. A deep dive into how he brings a song to life from first note, to final lyric, Cuco explains how Under the Sun took him over a year to finish. A song that explores magical realism, Under the Sun is an ode to Cuco’s roots.
You can watch the whole thing embedded right ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJrvhTwBY1w
The company describes “The Spark” as a documentary mini-series that explores “the origin stories of some of culture’s biggest songs and the creative journeys behind them.”
This is hardly the first such music-focused documentary from Apple.
On Apple Music and in the TV app, Apple hosts several full-length music documentaries that either the company itself filmed or bought rights to an existing one.
Some of the available documentaries include the acclaimeddocumentary about Rolland’s legendary TR-808 drum machine. Recently,Apple launched a mini-game showabout music and culture, titled “Play, Pause, Delete,” which is also available onYouTube.
