Thomas Bangalter, one half of French house duo Daft Punk, is releasing a solo album. Mythologies, which arrives April 17 on Erato/Warner Classics, is Bangalter’s first independent orchestral work.
The album arrives after the artist was commissioned in 2021 to create the score for a ballet of the same name. Running at 90min, the score is described as “not” electronic music, but rather “the large-scale traditional force of a symphony and, as such, it embraces the history of orchestral ballet music.”
Mythologies the ballet premiered in 2021 at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and at Ballet Preljocaj the following year. It has been described as a work informed by “the founding myths that shape the collective imagination.” Bangalter’s last solo outing was the 2003 album Outrage.
See the artwork and full tracklist for Mythologies below.
01 Premiers Mouvements
02 Le Catch
03 Thalestris
04 Les Gémeaux I
05 Les Amazones
06 L’Arrivée d’Alexandre
07 Treize Nuits
08 Danae
09 Zeus
10 L’Accouchement
11 Les Gorgones
12 Renaissances
13 Le Minotaure
14 Eden
15 Arès
16 Aphrodite
17 Les Naïades
18 Pas de Deux
19 Circonvolutions
20 Les Gémeaux II
21 Icare
22 Danse Funèbre
23 La Guerre
