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{"id":8781757022458,"title":"Le Motel \/\/ Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ LP","handle":"le-motel-odd-numbers-số-lẻ-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eベルギー・ブリュッセルのベース作家Le Motelが、\u003c\/span\u003e2025年2月にスペイン・バルセロナのIDMレーベルLapsus傘下Balmatからリリースしたレコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eベトナムで録音したフィールドレコーディングを随所に散りばめたバレアリック・ダウンテンポ〜エレクトロニック・アンビエント〜IDM15曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1943554343\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Le Motel\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/le-motel\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLe Motel\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/le-motel\/sets\/odd-numbers-s-l\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOdd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/lapsus\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/lapsus\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Lapsus \/ Balmat releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for digital files.\u003cbr\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003cbr\u003eIncludes \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003elithographic 4-page booklet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. I Cried Like a Child of Three \/ Tôi đã khóc như một đứa trẻ lên ba (feat. Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, Bui Thi Oanh, Chi chi, Ma Ma Chi and Are Ro) 04:42\u003cbr\u003e2. Xăm Hường 02:47\u003cbr\u003e3. Early Night with Fa and the Dang Brothers \/ Đầu hôm với Fa và anh em nhà họ Đặng (feat. Long Dang) 02:43\u003cbr\u003e4. La Palanche \/ Đòn gánh 03:38\u003cbr\u003e5. The Universe Is a Rabid Creature \/ Vũ trụ là con thú điên (feat. Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, Phapxa Chan and Bui Thi Oanh) 03:37\u003cbr\u003e6. Hanoi - The Motorcycle Empire \/ Hà Nội - Đế chế Xe ôm (feat. Gretar Ingi Gunnlaugsson and Dung Tran Quoc) 02:58 video\u003cbr\u003e7. A Conversation Under the Night Sky \/ Cuộc chuyện dưới trời đêm 02:26\u003cbr\u003e8. Altar \/ Bàn thờ 02:46\u003cbr\u003e9. Roóng Poọc (feat. Giáy) 02:19\u003cbr\u003e10. Chàm Islands (feat. Hoàng Tuấn) 02:35\u003cbr\u003e11. Lục bát 03:32\u003cbr\u003e12. The Perfume River \/ Sông Hương (feat. Truong Phu) 01:33\u003cbr\u003e13. Tuj Lub (feat. Lander Gyselinck) 04:11\u003cbr\u003e14. Đông Ba Market (feat. Hoàng Tuấn and Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương) 02:31\u003cbr\u003e15. Home Is a Fire \/ Nhà là một ngọn lửa 02:31\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBalmat:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt took a village to create Le Motel’s Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ. Beneath its pulsing, shimmering tones, the record is alive with the sounds of everyday life—purring mopeds, idle whistling, the din of kitchens and whisper of rain, voices joyful and contemplative, scenes of bustling cities and domestic intimacy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Motel—who runs the Brussels-based record label Maloca—gathered sounds, photographs, and videos while traveling in Vietnam in 2023. From Hanoi he ventured to Hmong communities in the mountains near the border with China, building out a network of contacts gathered from friends and friends of friends. But Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ—which takes its title from traditional Vietnamese numerological beliefs and customs—is wholly unlike the extractive product typical of exploitative modes of Western tourism; the album’s final shape was deeply dependent upon the participation of the people the artist met in Vietnam.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBack in Brussels after his travels, as Le Motel began working with his materials, he sent early drafts to his contacts, inviting their input. This back-and-forth eventually yielded a dynamic collective effort in which nine of the album’s 15 tracks feature multiple composer credits. Among the album’s diverse collaborators\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e are Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, an educator and ethnomusicologist; Chi Chi, the daughter of a Hmong shaman; and Phapxa Chan, who contributes three poems inspired by landscape and Le Motel’s own music (and, in one case, psychedelics).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is an album that is not about making sound, broadcasting it as a one-way communication, but instead about the empathic practice of listening—about listening as an integral and even ethical part of musical creation, even (especially!) when that music is created on a computer, rather than conjured by a group of players sharing space in real time. It’s an album that adopts many of the traditional trappings of ambient music while reminding us of the importance of intentional modes of creation. Brian Eno famously said that ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting, but Le Motel’s Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ suggests, to the contrary, the richness of experience available to us should we make the effort to open our ears.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Le Motel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Balmat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBALMAT15\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-05-09T09:02:34+09:00","created_at":"2025-05-08T19:19:07+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["balmat","house","lp","new","techno \/ house"],"price":474000,"price_min":474000,"price_max":474000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":47303777714426,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Le Motel \/\/ Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":474000,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd1_9ba8e742-dd10-42b7-8a2f-5b87a4380a7c.jpg?v=1746699427","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd2_1c20159d-aab0-48ab-a4f8-8dd85c41574d.jpg?v=1746699427"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd1_9ba8e742-dd10-42b7-8a2f-5b87a4380a7c.jpg?v=1746699427","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":35997869015290,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd1_9ba8e742-dd10-42b7-8a2f-5b87a4380a7c.jpg?v=1746699427"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd1_9ba8e742-dd10-42b7-8a2f-5b87a4380a7c.jpg?v=1746699427","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":35997869048058,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.333,"height":900,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd2_1c20159d-aab0-48ab-a4f8-8dd85c41574d.jpg?v=1746699427"},"aspect_ratio":1.333,"height":900,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/odd2_1c20159d-aab0-48ab-a4f8-8dd85c41574d.jpg?v=1746699427","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eベルギー・ブリュッセルのベース作家Le Motelが、\u003c\/span\u003e2025年2月にスペイン・バルセロナのIDMレーベルLapsus傘下Balmatからリリースしたレコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eベトナムで録音したフィールドレコーディングを随所に散りばめたバレアリック・ダウンテンポ〜エレクトロニック・アンビエント〜IDM15曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1943554343\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Le Motel\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/le-motel\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLe Motel\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/le-motel\/sets\/odd-numbers-s-l\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOdd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/lapsus\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/lapsus\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Lapsus \/ Balmat releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for digital files.\u003cbr\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003cbr\u003eIncludes \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003elithographic 4-page booklet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. I Cried Like a Child of Three \/ Tôi đã khóc như một đứa trẻ lên ba (feat. Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, Bui Thi Oanh, Chi chi, Ma Ma Chi and Are Ro) 04:42\u003cbr\u003e2. Xăm Hường 02:47\u003cbr\u003e3. Early Night with Fa and the Dang Brothers \/ Đầu hôm với Fa và anh em nhà họ Đặng (feat. Long Dang) 02:43\u003cbr\u003e4. La Palanche \/ Đòn gánh 03:38\u003cbr\u003e5. The Universe Is a Rabid Creature \/ Vũ trụ là con thú điên (feat. Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, Phapxa Chan and Bui Thi Oanh) 03:37\u003cbr\u003e6. Hanoi - The Motorcycle Empire \/ Hà Nội - Đế chế Xe ôm (feat. Gretar Ingi Gunnlaugsson and Dung Tran Quoc) 02:58 video\u003cbr\u003e7. A Conversation Under the Night Sky \/ Cuộc chuyện dưới trời đêm 02:26\u003cbr\u003e8. Altar \/ Bàn thờ 02:46\u003cbr\u003e9. Roóng Poọc (feat. Giáy) 02:19\u003cbr\u003e10. Chàm Islands (feat. Hoàng Tuấn) 02:35\u003cbr\u003e11. Lục bát 03:32\u003cbr\u003e12. The Perfume River \/ Sông Hương (feat. Truong Phu) 01:33\u003cbr\u003e13. Tuj Lub (feat. Lander Gyselinck) 04:11\u003cbr\u003e14. Đông Ba Market (feat. Hoàng Tuấn and Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương) 02:31\u003cbr\u003e15. Home Is a Fire \/ Nhà là một ngọn lửa 02:31\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBalmat:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt took a village to create Le Motel’s Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ. Beneath its pulsing, shimmering tones, the record is alive with the sounds of everyday life—purring mopeds, idle whistling, the din of kitchens and whisper of rain, voices joyful and contemplative, scenes of bustling cities and domestic intimacy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Motel—who runs the Brussels-based record label Maloca—gathered sounds, photographs, and videos while traveling in Vietnam in 2023. From Hanoi he ventured to Hmong communities in the mountains near the border with China, building out a network of contacts gathered from friends and friends of friends. But Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ—which takes its title from traditional Vietnamese numerological beliefs and customs—is wholly unlike the extractive product typical of exploitative modes of Western tourism; the album’s final shape was deeply dependent upon the participation of the people the artist met in Vietnam.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBack in Brussels after his travels, as Le Motel began working with his materials, he sent early drafts to his contacts, inviting their input. This back-and-forth eventually yielded a dynamic collective effort in which nine of the album’s 15 tracks feature multiple composer credits. Among the album’s diverse collaborators\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e are Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, an educator and ethnomusicologist; Chi Chi, the daughter of a Hmong shaman; and Phapxa Chan, who contributes three poems inspired by landscape and Le Motel’s own music (and, in one case, psychedelics).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is an album that is not about making sound, broadcasting it as a one-way communication, but instead about the empathic practice of listening—about listening as an integral and even ethical part of musical creation, even (especially!) when that music is created on a computer, rather than conjured by a group of players sharing space in real time. It’s an album that adopts many of the traditional trappings of ambient music while reminding us of the importance of intentional modes of creation. Brian Eno famously said that ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting, but Le Motel’s Odd Numbers \/ Số Lẻ suggests, to the contrary, the richness of experience available to us should we make the effort to open our ears.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Le Motel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Balmat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBALMAT15\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}