Albums

Lizard Tongue

Created in collaboration with the composer-performer Bethany Younge, Lizard Tongue is a conversation with the stones, with the air, with the branches of trees, with the living leaves, with the water, and with the songs of creatures reimagined through the human psyche. Created at the intersection of Dante and Younge’s practices as improvising performers and as composers, the duo uses their voices, entities from the natural world, and instruments made from clay and wood in an improvisatory flow state to invoke seven narrative sonic landscapes. The sound of stones, shells, living branches, tree bark, dry grasses, clay jaguar whistles, wooden flutes and jaw harps, as well as the singing, humming, whistling, growling and grunting of the performers’ voices embody psychically-charged landscapes from the depths of the churning earth to the aetheric heavens. Released on TAK editions.

Music for a Magickal Winter

Magickal, wintry music to delight you during the holidays and accompany you through the end of the winter. Beautiful Medieval tunes, spell-like harp pieces, and original songs honoring the winter. Seasons greetings from my hearth to yours!

Vistas Furtivas – The Music of Juan Campoverde

Ecuadorian-American composer Juan Campoverde’s music is of full of deep, secretive, and lush magic. Invoking the natural world and the rawest of human emotions, this album compiles vocal chamber works, and works for guitar written for Fonema Consort by Campoverde, their long-time compositional collaborator.

Fifth Tableau

Since its founding in 2012, the Chicago-based ensemble Fonema Consort has championed music that explores the expressive capacities of the human voice. For the ensemble’s fifth anniversary, Fonema Consort presents five new works that operate at the boundary between singing and speech, speech and noise, voices and instruments.

The Essential Indexical – Early MMXVIII

Nina’s experimental vocal composition Mi cama inundada is included in this compilation album from the Indexical Series.

Pasos en otra calle

This album of music by Costa Rican composers Mauricio Pauly and Pablo Chin performed by Chicago based Fonema Consort explores the boundaries of form—where structures are endangered by the very tensions that sustain them—and of meaning—where words verge on pure sound and where musical sound is itself loosed from its conventional moorings.