Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter has announced a new solo album. Mythologies arrives on April 7 via Erato/Warner. It’s his first independent orchestral work. Bangalter was originally commissioned by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for the ballet of the same name back in 2021. Billed as a production about the “founding myths that shape the collective imagination,” it was premiered by the Opéra National de Bordeaux and Ballet Preljocaj the following year.

Mythologies is a 90-minute-long score in which Bangalter reimagines his composition style. In a press release, it’s described as “not” drawing on electronic music, but rather “the large-scale traditional force of a symphony and, as such, it embraces the history of orchestral ballet music.”

In 2018, Bangalter contributed to Gaspar Noé’s Climax soundtrack. Back in 2021, he and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, his bandmate in Daft Punk, announced that they were formally breaking up as a band. However, they’ve since rolled out a deluxe vinyl reissue of Homework as well as the storyboards from their iconic 1997 music video for “Around the World.”

Read “Long Live Daft Punk’s Music Videos” over on the Pitch.

Mythologies:

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