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    Le Motel Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ

    Balmat
      • 1. 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)
      • 2. Xăm Hường
      • 3. Early Night with Fa and the Dang Brothers / Đầu hôm với Fa và anh em nhà họ Đặng (feat. Long Dang)
      • 4. La Palanche / Đòn gánh
      • 5. The Universe Is a Rabid Creature / Vũ trụ là con thú điên (feat. Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, Phapxa Chan and Bui Thi Oanh)
      • 6. Hanoi - The Motorcycle Empire / Hà Nội - Đế chế Xe ôm (feat. Gretar Ingi Gunnlaugsson and Dung Tran Quoc)
      • 7. A Conversation Under the Night Sky / Cuộc chuyện dưới trời đêm
      • 8. Altar / Bàn thờ
      • 9. Roóng Poọc (feat. Giáy)
      • 10. Chàm Islands (feat. Hoàng Tuấn)
      • 11. Lục bát
      • 12. The Perfume River / Sông Hương (feat. Truong Phu)
      • 13. Tuj Lub (feat. Lander Gyselinck)
      • 14. Đông Ba Market (feat. Hoàng Tuấn and Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương)
      • 15. Home Is a Fire / Nhà là một ngọn lửa

      Le 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.