WUNDERKAMMER! #45

1. Spotify playlists. I’d avoided using Spotify for ages — not because of any moral or artistic outrage — I just hated the interface. I’m not sure what changed my mind, but it now just feels easier.
   Anyway, I’ve started making a some playlists, mainly to avoid cramming all my music listening into these posts. Just click the image to hear one I’m enjoying :)

2. Sufjan Stevens. Even if you’re a fan of his music, it may come as a suprise t know that there is an unreleased documentary about Stevens and his brother taking a trip to meet their father, who they hadn’t seen in years.
It may never come out, but it’s the kind of trivia that will just float around in my brain unless I share it with you :)

Here’s the trailer:

3. Cristobal Balenciaga. Oscar Boyson makes some of the best short-form video on the internet. Here’s his piece about the designer who Christian Dior called “the master of us all.”

4. Mixed by Ali. Perhaps my favourite album last year was Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly. The sounds on that record are phenomenal. So, I started to dig-in a little, to see who were the people responsible for making it happen. One name in particular kept coming up — Derek Ali.
Probably this will only be of interest to heavy music-heads, but his story will hold some interest for almost everyone.