To see him thus open up in the media as he had rarely done in the past 25 years, we have the feeling that Daft Punk’s robot helmet had become heavy to wear for Thomas Bangalter. His first project since the separation, two years ago, of the legendary French electronic duo takes the form of music for a ballet created by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. And inevitably, we seek the relationship between his dancing electronic work and his approach to orchestral music; we first find one in its musical references, disco and classic funk at the Daft Punk era, and classics too (the romantic era of the 19e century) in Mythologies. In his rather raw, even simplistic, but nourishing musical writing: the repeated phrases leading to a climax on Alexander’s arrivalin the rumbling rhythm of the long THE Minotaurthat of staccato moving violins Icarus. On the level of the orchestral language, Bangalter stammers, but this work has all the same the safe.
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