LIZARD TONGUE
“LIZARD TONGUE” by BETHANY YOUNGE + NINA DANTE
out on TAK Editions
Nina Dante + Bethany Younge’s “Lizard Tongue” is a conversation with the stones, with the air, 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 narrative sonic landscapes.
This music was created and recorded on the ancestral lands of the Lenape people past and present — Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We acknowledge the Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing and indelible relationship with their territory. We offer our thanks and respect to the Lenape, stewards of the land that inspires our creations and sustains our lives.