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SOUND_00 & LEFTERNA / PORTAL (split cassette by Vacancy Records) Vacancy Records out of Canada loves to recycle old cassettes, and they love split cassettes. Two of the three recent ones are split ones. On the first, we find two gentlemen from Macedonia, Sound_00, also known as Toni Dimitrov, and Lefterna is Boban Ristevski, former scribe for this rag. There was a time when I reviewed work from both these guys regularly, but they went quiet for some time. Ristevski recently returned and had a couple of exciting releases, all collaborations (well, the ones I heard). They have one long, thirty-four-minute piece of music called 'Collab 52'. I am not sure if that number indicates how many times they worked together. I have no idea how and what they use to do their music, but my best guess would be that there is an endless, subconscious stream of field recordings mangled by electronics. These field recordings might be the dishwasher or some other kind of electrically charged equipment, for all I know. This is the sort of drone and ambient music that I like very much. It is consistent, long, psychedelic and exactly right up my alley. Portal sounds like a familiar name, and I bet there are a few portals out there. This Portal is from For Erie, Canada, and also works with field recordings, which, certainly in the first half of the piece, is quite a percussive racket; something or another being thrashed around in the yard. However, there is a quieter approach in the second half of the piece, of water sounds, some cars passing and the obscure rummaging of objects. Oddly enough. This, too, had a weird percussive feeling but was relatively sparse. (FdW) ––– Address: https://vacancyniagara.bandcamp.com/ - http://www.vitalweekly.net/1319.html ( . . . ) . . .