Midori Takada & Lafawndah
Le Renard Bleu
K7! Records / Kenzo
2018
Design | Neila Czermak
Illustration | Ryota Miyake, Sunao Maruyama
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Myths, like drum patterns, accrue force with repetition and meaning with reinterpretation. Take the myth of the blue fox, an animal with a coat so white it can turn a different color entirely. In Senegal’s Serer religion, it’s believed foxes were mischievous tricksters. The Icelandic poet and Björk collaborator Sjón devoted a novel to the blue fox, in which the beast gives the protagonist, the Reverend, a reason for living. In 20th-century Britain, the Blue Fox became a nuclear warhead. The animal particularly charmed Japan, where, fittingly, given its provocative and transitory nature, it was variously a messenger of the divine and a god itself. And now, it reappears again as Le Renard Bleu, the first new release in almost 20 years by Japanese composer Midori Takada, who knows a thing or two herself about myths and patterns.
Le Renard Bleu is a series of collaborations in both content and form. Sonically, Takada has joined forces with the London-based singer/producer Lafawndah. Visually, the pair took up with filmmakers and artistic directors Partel Oliva for an accompanying film, of interest mainly as a chance to see how Takada creates her sounds, and a one-sided 12" with a flip etched by Parisian illustrator Neila Czermak. Logistically, the crew found funding and distribution from cult fashion house KENZO, whose runway shows Lafawndah has soundtracked.
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