Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter announces solo orchestral album, ‘Mythologies’

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