Join Nina Dante, Bethany Younge, and TAK editions for a full album stream of Lizard Tongue, to celebrate its release.

Join us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIon5c2mT4
View/purchase the album: https://ninadantebethanyyounge.bandcamp.com/releases
Read and watch more about the project at TAK editions: https://www.takeditions.com/lizard

Released by TAK editions, Nina Dante + Bethany Younge’s LIZARD TOUNGE 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.

Purchase the album: https://ninadantebethanyyounge.bandcamp.com/releases

All tracks created and recorded by Nina Dante + Bethany Younge • Mixed by Bethany Younge • Mastered by Taylor Brook • Album Artwork: ‘Urdimbre discontinua’ by Ana Teresa Barboza • Album Design by Laura Cocks • Released by TAK editions • ℗ & © 2021 Nina Dante + Bethany Younge About Nina Dante + Bethany Younge: Long-term artistic collaborators, performer-composers Nina Dante and Bethany Younge bring together the threads of music, text creation, theatrical scenario, costuming, and video to create uniquely scintillating and perplexing works. Their collaborative work is characterized by an exploration of the corporeal knowing, surreality and archetype, and visceral expression. Their creations include Bodyscape (2016), ALAMARGO (2018), Feet to roots eyes to air (2020), and their forthcoming release with TAK Editions, Lizard Tongue (2021). These works have been presented by Long Beach Opera, Oberlin Conservatory, the Frequency Series, the Twin Cities New Music Festival, and Fonema Consort.