Ninty-minute composition will arrive in April
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter will launch his first solo album, Mythologies, which is able to characteristic an orchestral piece he wrote for a ballet of the identical identify. The album is ready to reach on April 7 through Erato/Warner Classics.
Mythologies is Bangalter’s first unbiased orchestral work, commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. The ballet premiered final summer season, a collaboration between Ballet Preljocaj and the Orchestre Nationwide Bordeaux Aquitaine, which carried out Bangalter’s rating beneath the path of Romain Dumas. The ballet is an exploration of up to date rituals, in addition to the way in which founding myths form collective creativeness.
In line with a press launch, Bangalter’s rating for Mythologies doesn’t draw on his digital and dance music background; the truth is, Preljocaj reportedly approached him concerning the undertaking simply when Bangalter was keen to put in writing a bit for a full orchestra. The 90-minute composition attracts on Bangalter’s love of Baroque music, with some “hints” of American minimalism as properly.
In recent times, Bangalter has largely targeted on soundtrack work, contributing music to the 2017 Latvian movie Riga (Take 1), Gaspar Noé’s 2018 psychological horror flick Climax, and the 2022 French comes En Corps (which, coincidentally, is a few ballet dancer). He’s additionally executed a little bit of manufacturing and studio work for artists like Arcade Fireplace and Matthieu Chedid (who performs beneath the moniker, -M-).
Again in 2021, Bangalter and bandmate Man-Manuel de Homem-Christo introduced that Daft Punk could be breaking apart after a groundbreaking 28-year run. On the time, nevertheless, the group had been inactive for eight years, dropping their final album, Random Entry Recollections, in 2013.