The Daft Punk camp has been as quiet as an empty nightclub for the reason that French icons formally introduced their breakup in February 2021. However Tuesday (Jan. 24) gives tangentially associated Daft Punk information by means of the group’s Thomas Bangalter.
This April, the producer will launch his first solo album, an orchestral mission referred to as Mythologies. The work comes with a predictably high-pedigree backstory, having been commissioned by French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for the ballet of the identical title. The present premiered in Bordeaux on the Orchestre Nationwide Bordeaux Aquitaine.
A press launch on this mission states that the 90-minute rating “reveals a love of Baroque music and hints to traces of American minimalism, its transient phrases subjected to a technique of progressive variation.” The orchestral work doesn’t incorporate any digital parts. See its cowl artwork under.
The mission, out April 7 by way of Erato/Warner Classics, started in fall 2019 when Preljocaj invited Bangalter to jot down the music for a brand new work. Preljocaj suggested that this piece was supposed for 10 dancers from the Opéra Nationwide de Bordeaux’s ballet firm, 10 others from Preljocaj’s personal firm and the home’s resident orchestra.
“This invitation,” the press launch continues with a wink to kismet, “arrived on the very second that Bangalter was itching to jot down for a full orchestra.”
The ensuing 23-scene manufacturing and its corresponding music do nothing lower than “delve into the legacy shared by all of humankind by embracing the traditional and fashionable myths that replicate and form us.”
“I feel all artists ought to have freedom,” Bangalter’s father Daniel Vangarde instructed Billboard final November. “I helped Thomas, Man-Man and their mates as a lot as I may to permit them to launch with out limitations. They have been solely 20 years outdated and the business may have squeezed them — a traditional contract generates interference between your work and the time it’s launched… My enter was to assist create a very good setting that allowed them to supply freely.”
Stephane Manel
