Album Review Jazz Bulletin September 2023
A stunning release combining music and chocolate: Dutch singer Vivienne Aerts unites 100 female musicians worldwide with women cocoa farmers from Congo’s Virunga Park.
A stunning release combining music and chocolate: Dutch singer Vivienne Aerts unites 100 female musicians worldwide with women cocoa farmers from Congo’s Virunga Park.
JazzWeekly highlights the layered vocals, soundscapes, and songs on Vivienne Aerts’s *Typuhthâng*.
In Cent Magazine Women’s Hands ON feature, Vivienne Aerts opens up about her creative philosophy: blending jazz, global collaboration, and feminine power to build art rooted in trust and community.
The video is 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.
Aerts mixed the sounds of birds, work and singing and such like with sounds from other contributors to create a kind of “glue between songs or a palette cleanser between courses.”
3voor12 Leiden (March 2023) profiles Vivienne Aerts and her album Typuhthâng, created with 100 women worldwide and paired with chocolate supporting the Femmes de Virunga collective.
Today, we’re thrilled to be bringing you the premiere of Vivienne Aerts‘ latest music video for her single “You’re My Morning”. The video is a beautiful stop-motion animation featuring the “Pajarones” (Birdies) from the Chilean web series created by Coty Luzoro & Kike Ortega. The anthropomorphic birds made out
“Typuhthâng is a luminous, exquisitely crafted suite of music and an album on a mission. The mission is twofold: to mark International Women’s Day with a recording performed and engineered by women, for everyone, and to provide financial support to The Femmes de Virunga, a
Jazzwise (March 2023) gives ★★★ to Vivienne Aerts’s Typuhthâng, praising its ambition, international collaboration with 100+ women, and eclectic blend of jazz and world influences, "Aerts is ethically grounded, and aesthetically off the wall."
VPRO’s 3voor12 calls Vivienne Aerts’ album Typuhthâng “feminine power unfolding,” praising its 100-woman collaboration, experimental soundscapes, and connection to Femmes de Virunga in DR Congo.