Typuhthâng
Vocalist, performer & composer Vivienne Aerts’ new album ‘Typuhthâng’ will be released in 2023. Together with 100 next-generation female musicians, and in collaboration with Original Beans Chocolate, Typuhthâng’ aims to empower the female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo and replant the rainforest.
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‘Typuhthâng’ 

Album by Vocalist and Composer Vivienne Aerts

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Vocalist, performer & composer Vivienne Aerts’ new album Typuhthâng is created  together with 100 next-generation female musicians, and in collaboration with Original Beans Chocolate, Typuhthâng and aims to empower the female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo and replant the rainforest.

 

“The aim of the project is essentially two-fold – to promote awareness of sustainability and to give females a sense of self-appreciation and empowerment, all through light-hearted music that is ethereal, at times in the form of lullabies, and at others a blend of jazz, electronica, and classical, intended to be multi-sensory experience.” – MAKING A SCENE

 

Typuhthâng – written and produced by Vivienne Aerts. Arrangements: Linnea Lundgren (1), Camila Meza (3), Mariel Roberts (4), Ines Velasco Montiel (6), Ga Young Bae (7), Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (9). Mixing: Jess Fenton, Mastering: Maria Triana. Recorded with over 100 female musicians. 

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Press 

 

New York-based Dutch singer Aerts’ third album exists in a parallel dimension to most releases. Aerts is ethically grounded, and aesthetically off the wall.– JAZZWISE

 
This is a project album filled with wonderful sounds, tones, vocals and instrumentation. – SIMPLY JAZZ TALK
 
Aerts has beautifully used the power of music as a tool and resource to empower others… as well as chocolate! Music will always be a force for good and it is so wonderful to see it being used as such. – JAZZ VIEWS
 
Songs of a walk in the museum of modern art. The album comes across like a musical mosaic, juxtaposing four “Soundscapes” with actual songs. – Jazzweekly 
 
Typuhthâng is a luminous, exquisitely crafted suite of music and an album on a mission. – Chris May, All about Jazz 
 
Aerts strings the songs together with her clear and intimate sportano sound in complete tranquility creating an airy and almost otherworldly whole Zing magazine *****  
 
Listen as a song reels from the radio, that of a female songstress explodes into your heart. – Cent Magazine
 
Aerts sings in an airy soprano, clearly articulating the lyrics unpretentiously. The sound is light, flowing, at times ambient, and at others joyous, celebratory, and soothing. – Making A Scene
 

🏆 Global Music Awards

 Two silver medals best alternative jazz & best female vocal jazz – for Vivienne Aerts’ album ‘Typuhthâng’

🏆 Semi-finalist International Songwriting Competition

 

ABOUT THE ALBUM

Vocalist, performer & composer Vivienne Aerts’ new album Typuhthâng will be released March 3, 2023 in conjunction with International Women’s Day. Together with 100 next-generation female musicians, and in collaboration with Original Beans Chocolate, Typuhthâng aims to empower the female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo and replant the rainforest.

 

The album features 3 sampled soundscapes made from field recordings from Virunga State Park, Congo and 6 original songs with arrangements by Vivienne, Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, Ines Velasco, Ga Young Bae, Linnea Lundgren, Camila Meza and Mariel Roberts as well as recordings by 100 female musicians from over 40 countries. Mixed by Jess Fenton and mastered by Maria Triana. 

 

The songs featured in ‘Typuhthâng’ are meant to empower women in a male-dominated industry to participate in every role of the project including performing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering. Vivienne aims to create a larger collective awareness about sustainability and female empowerment, and how we can work together to make the world a better place. 

 

Aerts’ music translates feelings into song and connects with people of various backgrounds on a deep and personal level with a light-hearted approach. It contains themes of self-appreciation and the ability to create your own path in life. 

 

“My work with Vervool, a bespoke multi-sensory experience launched with my pastry chef husband, Ted Steinebach, connected me with Original Beans Chocolate,” says Aerts. “Talking with Philipp Kauffmann, the founder, I was inspired by their passion for sustainability, The Femmes de Virunga are a cacao farm collective of 1500 women in Virunga State Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The collective, initiated and supported in 2008 by Original Beans, gave women the tools and opportunities to overcome extreme hardship and political unrest. These women, often victimized and routinely left to undertake hard agricultural labor, were empowered through literacy campaigns and leadership training, invited to cultivate cacao and set up a tree nursery. In cultivating this crop, they cultivate their communities. Continued learning, regenerative farming and stable “living wage” from Original Beans enables them to elevate their standard of living.”

 

“I wanted to use my music to raise awareness of this project. I wanted to use my music, not to inspire charity but to match their entrepreneurial spirit and generate business, ‘Let’s make an album that sells their chocolate.’ And of course, chocolate and music are a bit of a magical combination, right?”

Artwork – by Natalia Olbinski 

🏆 Longlisted for the World Illustration Awards

The album will be available physically on cd and vinyl, and digitally. The initial pressing of 500 numbered exclusive copies comes with a bar of Femmes de Virunga Chocolate. The cover artwork is screen-printed on cacao pulp paper. The 36 pages interior booklet is printed on French paper and is designed and illustrated by Natalia Olbinski. In addition, you will get a sticker page with lips and beans! The 1st pressing of the Vinyl will be restricted to 300 units and will come with chocolate and the booklet as well. The regular edition of the album also comes with a bar of chocolate as well as the booklet. Order your copy here! 

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Where Is Everybody From?

Click on the pins on the map for All Details, The Links And The Biographies From All The Women Involved!!

               Line-up:

 
    

· Voices · Vivienne Aerts · Ajda Snyder · Claudia Obser · Cobby Brzeski · Emma J.E. Brown · Enya Lim · Erika Banks · Ester Wiesnerová · Gabbi Coenen · Helen Robertson · Isabel Wing · Jeanne Gies · Jude Heichelbech · Kari vanderKloot · Karina Pardus · Katelyn Isaacson · Katrina Reta · Linnéa Lundgren · Mar Fayos · Marie Goetzinger · Michelle Lugo · Paulina Fuentes · Rosalie Genay · Sarah Marie Bugeja · Catey Esler · Sharon Fendrich · Valentina Marentes · Virunga State Park bird sound samples Pennie Taylor.

· Voice Vivienne Aerts · flute Cobby Brzeski · voice Sarah Marie Bugeja · vibraphone Grace Herzog · flute Anggie Obin · harmonica Ella Joy Meir · piano Esin Ozlem Aydingoz · drums Jodie Michael · voice Maria Mendes · voice Rachel Z Hakim · electronics Valerie Giglio · Sansula Diana Belfor ·  voice and electronics Joy Lee ·  Machines Ruben van Megen · Virunga sound samples Pennie Taylor

· voice Vivienne Aerts · guitar Camila Meza · duduk Inna Dudukina · harp Margaret Davis · cajon Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez · bass Adinda Meertins · harmonica Hermine Deurloo 

voice Vivienne Aerts · viola Hannah Levinson · violin 1 Lauren Cauley · violin 2 Ludovica Burtone · cello Mariel Roberts

voice Vivienne Aerts · Claudia Obser · Enya Lim · Mar Fayos · Arianne Abbestee Tammy Scheffer · Yulia Komo · Guilia Duchi · Leala Cyr · Annie van der Voort · Orihana Calcines · Rose Tang · voice and electronics Joy Lee · machines Ruben van Megen · saxophone Ayumi Ishito · Grace-mary Burega · guitar Charissa Hoffman · Lolivone De La Rosa · guitar and electronics Corrie van Binsbergen · Microtonal Koto Hidemi Akaiwa · electronics Kseniia Vasileva · Kalimba Merel Brusselers kanklės Simona Smirnova · Virunga sound samples Pennie Taylor

voice Vivienne Aerts · violin 1 Sara Caswell · violin 2 Emily Stewart · violin 3 Tomoko Omura · viola Tara Novak · bass Adi Meyerson · cello Anna Litvinenko · trumpet Nadje Noordhuis

voice Vivienne Aerts · piano Ga Young Bae · Clarinet Hillai Govreen · bass Iris Ornig · cello Marta Roma

voice Vivienne Aerts · Ester Wiesnerová · Marie Goetzinger · Elana Hedrych · Maria Alejandra Jiminez · Noa Fort · Bernadette Steinebach · Karin Aerts · Luc Reuvers · guitar and electronics Corrie van Binsbergen · vibraphone Grace Herzog · Cello Marta Roma · synth Hayley Lam · bass Moana Avvenenti· flugelhorn Nadje Noordhuis · Electric bass sounds Aubrey Ruby Rosauli Situmorang · singing bowl Libby Richman · synthesizer Marit Stolk · saxophone Susanne Alt · Susanne Bachmann · Piano strings super balls bouncing Melinda Faylor · violin Melinda Rice · Virunga sound samples Pennie Taylor 

 voice Vivienne Aerts · Flugel 1 Rachel Therrien · Flugel 2 Milena Casado Fauquet · trombone Sara Jacovino · Sax Itzel Reyna · piano Zahili Gonzales Zamora · Bass Irisley Gomez · percussion Nêgah Santos · drums Karina Colis

 · RECORDING courtesy of Pennie Taylor, who, in 2016, recorded the Pygmy peoples in Mundubiena near North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Official Music Videos for ‘Typuhthâng

Just go

Here is a video of my first single ‘Just go’ with vocal arrangement by Linnea Lundgren. It features 26 amazing singers, from all over the world. It was filmed and produced in New York, walking in Prospect Park, and driving around in Brooklyn and Manhattan in our BMW Z3. Hair and make-up by my friends Trudy and Mona. 

 

Voices · Vivienne Aerts · Ajda Snyder · Claudia Obser · Cobby Brzeski · Emma J.E. Brown · Enya Lim · Erika Banks · Ester Wiesnerová · Gabbi Coenen · Helen Robertson · Isabel Wing · Jeanne Gies · Jude Heichelbech · Kari vanderKloot · Karina Pardus · Katelyn Isaacson · Katrina Reta · Linnéa Lundgren · Mar Fayos · Marie Goetzinger · Michelle Lugo · Paulina Fuentes · Rosalie Genay · Sarah Marie Bugeja · Catey Esler · Sharon Fendrich · Valentina Marentes // Virunga State Park bird sound samples Pennie Taylor.

 

About the song:

This song is about taking chances. Originally written as a solo, it has become the biggest piece on the album. My Swedish friend Linnéa Lundgren is a magician with voices and so a natural choice as the arranger of this piece. The process was intense, Linnea imagined each voice and sang every part herself before she transcribed them and drafted the score. I was blown away when I heard her sing the first version of the arrangement. When it was fully recorded, the intensity of all these female voices made it clear that this should be the opening track. I added Pennie Taylor’s birds, recorded in the jungle of Virunga Nationalpark Congo, as a perfect compliment to this dreamy atmosphere.

 
Silence

“The music video for the single ‘Silence’ by Vivienne Aerts is a black and white dance interpretation by Quincie Hydock. Hydock is an up-and-coming dancer/choreographer that specializes in movement in the broadest sense of the word. Seamlessly combining styles from ballet to hip-hop, Hydock translates the soft voice, strings, and Nadje Noordhuis’ trumpet solo into an elegant play of lines and sometimes countering them; pushing the energy of the music into a different light. Although Quincie Hydock is a skilled choreographer, the dance in this video is all improvised; channeling emotion from one craft to another. Being inspired by the raw filming techniques of Andy Warhol, the video is shot by Vivienne Aerts herself, using nothing more than an iPhone.”

voice Vivienne Aerts · violin 1 Sara Caswell · violin 2 Emily Stewart · violin 3 Tomoko Omura · viola Tara Novak · bass Adi Meyerson · cello Anna Litvinenko · trumpet Nadje Noordhuis · dance Quincie Hydock · mixing Jess Fenton · mastering Maria Triana

About the song:

After I wrote the composition for ‘Silence’, Ines Velasco did the arrangement and turned it into a string ensemble. All the music was recorded remotely in the homes of the artists. “This song speaks of trust. I gave Inés complete freedom to express herself when I asked her to arrange this song. She created an interpretation for a string ensemble and I felt immediately that it hit the right spot. After all parts were recorded Jess and I mixed electronic echoes into the introduction and used other digital effects throughout the rest of the piece. I am also very proud to have my friend Nadje Noordhuis play the trumpet solo on this track. It is, for me, utterly beautiful and emotional, as is the whole song.”


“Silence”, built around a small string orchestra and the singer’s crystal-pure intimate voice (that puts me in mind here of the semi-legendary Patty Waters) – SOUNDS AND COLOURS

You’re my morning ft. Pajarones

🏆 Awarded First price Animated Music Video at ChileMonos 2023

🏆 Jury mention SMOF stop motion our fest – category short film 2023

(press release published in Folk and Rock Magazine)

A stop-motion animation featuring the “Pajarones” (Birdies) a stop-motion animation web series by Pataka productions, featuring anthropomorphic birds made out of felt, created by the Chilean duo Coty Luzoro & Kike Ortega, who made the video specially for Vivienne Aerts’ single ‘You’re My Morning’. In the series, the birds move to Santiago to study but come across peculiarities that any young Chilean student finds when moving from the province to the big city and are portrayed with wit and an urban Chilean swagger.

Lineup:

Composition, production & editing, and voice: Vivienne Aerts (The Netherlands)

Arrangement & Guitar – Camila Meza  (Chile) 

Duduk – Inna Dudukina  (Russia) / Harp – Margaret Davis (USA) / Cajon – Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez (Dominican Republic) / Bass – Adinda Meertins (The Netherlands) / Harmonica – Hermine Deurloo(The Netherlands) / Vibraphone – Yuhan Su

Mixing – Jess Fenton (USA)

Mastering – Maria Triana  (Colombia)

A film by Coty Luzoro & Kike Ortega (Chile) 

About the song 

“This song is about being far away from the ones we love, but always being present. No matter how far away you are physically, you are always in my heart. I hope this song brings some support to anybody who has someone to miss. To those in long-distance relationships, husbands and wives working in different countries, or close friends not seen in a long time. Camila Meza fully understood these feelings and she created an arrangement that speaks for itself. The way that Hermine Deurloo translated this into her solo really speaks for itself. I think this music video is such a unique view on new ways of collaboration and bringing different audiences and worlds together. It was a please to work together with Coty and Kike.”

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About the Artist: 

“The staggeringly versatile skill-set of NYC-based Dutch Singer, Educator, Psychologist and Artist-preneur Vivienne Aerts busts myths around the ‘Jill of all trades’ paradigm with a nonchalance that leaves even the most skeptical purist taking a bow. A practicing clinical psychologist and choir conductor in Europe before she went on to be a Fulbright scholar and Suma Cum Laude Berklee graduate, her collaborators since have included some of the most iconic names in the world of jazz like Lee Konitz, Kenny Werner, Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, Peter Erskine, and Florian Weber.
 
Vivienne released her first album ‘Roofgarden’ in 2009, and her second album ‘Polaroid’ – a Jazz a cappella EP – followed in 2012. In 2018, Aerts spoke at the National Fulbright Conference in Mexico, two TEDx events, and sang on Kenny Werner’s 2019 Vinyl release “Church On Mars” with Dave Liebman, Terri Lyne Carrington, and James Genus for NewVelle records.

Her eclectic ‘experience’ events in collaboration with her husband, renowned pastry chef Ted Steinebach was the root of her multi-disciplinary approach to the making of her third album in March 2023, ‘Typuhthâng’, which not just features a 100 female musicians from around the globe, but also comes with a bar of bean-to-bar chocolate from Original Beans Chocolate, a company that pro-actively empowers female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo and contributes to reforesting the rainforest. The album also won various awards and mentions, including two silver medals at the Global Music Awards (best alternative jazz and best female vocal jazz).

Since 2015, Vivienne has been residing in New York City since 2015 where she performs in clubs such as the Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s Club, Metropolitan Room, and Mezzrow.

Besides this, she is a faculty member at Berklee College of music where she has been instrumental in building a new generation of performers who are not only skilled musicians but also mentally and physically healthy individuals. The Fulbright scholar is known for addressing core issues artists and educators alike have been grappling with unnoticed for generations: mental health, well-being, and the hamster-wheel effect the neglect of the same threatens to have on the arts eco-system. With side-notes of entrepreneurship for the artist, disparities between European and North American attitudes towards education, and chocolate.”