Thomas Bangalter rises from the ashes of Daft Punk.
After the announcement of the group's separation, in February 2021, the French artist embarked on a solo career.
His first album,
Mythologies
, is announced for April 7, 2023. With this record, the Daft Punk co-founder
"reinvents his relationship to composition"
explains Warner Music in an announcement tweet.
According to
Tsugi
, it
"will include no less than 23 tracks"
and will last
"an hour and a half"
.
Mythologies
takes its name from the ballet, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj and presented notably at the Opéra de Bordeaux and at the Châtelet, for which Thomas Bangalter composed the music.
In 2021, Olivier Lombardie, the general administrator of the Opéra national de Bordeaux, told AFP:
“Angelin Preljocaj, who had already worked with Daft Punk on electro music, offered Thomas Bangalter to compose this time this for him a ballet music.
This one wanted to change register, he really wanted to try to move on to something else, to rub shoulders with symphonic orchestration
.
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The composition of this show, which began in July 2022, was Thomas Bangalter's first musical production since the end of Daft Punk.
The separation of the iconic duo, who made the planet dance with hits like
Around the World
,
Get Lucky
or
One More Time
, was a shock to fans and the music world alike.
At the time, many artists, from Jean-Michel Jarre to Pharrell Williams, paid tribute to them on social networks.
It must be said that with their group, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo participated in the emergence of the French touch.
They even ended up becoming global ambassadors.
But today, Thomas Bangalter drops the headphones, abandoning electronic music in favor of ballet music.
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