To celebrate the launch of her new album, "Typuhthâng," singer and chocolate entrepreneur Vivienne Aerts has an exciting event lined up. Her latest album, Typuhthâng, features 100 next-generation female musicians from over 40 countries and comes with a bar of Original Beans Femmes de Virunga Chocolate (more about this chocolate below). For this concert, Vivienne will perform on piano with voice and loop station. The concert will also include storytelling about her philanthropic work to empower female cocoa farmers in Virunga State Park, as well as a 'listening party' of her soundscapes comprised of the sounds of the Virunga Jungle. Additionally, complimentary chocolate will be served to introduce you to the celebrated Original Beans Femmes de Virunga chocolate that comes with Aerts’ album Typuhthâng (pronounced type-of-thing)....
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To celebrate the launch of her new album, "Typuhthâng," singer and chocolate entrepreneur Vivienne Aerts has an exciting event lined up. Her latest album, Typuhthâng, features 100 next-generation female musicians from over 40 countries and comes with a bar of Original Beans Femmes de Virunga Chocolate (more about this chocolate below). For this concert, Vivienne will perform on piano with voice and loop station. The concert will also include storytelling about her philanthropic work to empower female cocoa farmers in Virunga State Park, as well as a 'listening party' of her soundscapes comprised of the sounds of the Virunga Jungle. Additionally, complimentary chocolate will be served to introduce you to the celebrated Original Beans Femmes de Virunga chocolate that comes with Aerts’ album Typuhthâng (pronounced type-of-thing).
About Vivienne Aerts:
"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. Vivienne studied on a Fulbright and graduated Suma Cum Laude at Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) where she worked with renowned jazz artists such as Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, and John Patitucci. Since then, Vivienne has shared the stage with both national and international Jazz icons such as Lee Konitz, Kenny Werner, Chris Potter, Peter Erskine, and Florian Weber. Her eclectic ‘experience’ events in collaboration with her husband, renowned pastry chef Ted Steinebach, were the root of her multi-disciplinary approach to the making of her new album, ‘Typuhthâng’, which not just features 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. Vivienne released her first album “Roofgarden” in 2009 and her second album “Polaroid” in 2012 before releasing her 3rd album "Typuhthâng" in 2023. 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."
About the album:
Typuhthâng (2023) (pronounced Type-of-thing) is Vivienne Aerts’ third studio album, entirely recorded remotely by over 100 female musicians from more than 40 countries. The compositions are Aerts’ originals, and the arrangements are by renowned musicians and arrangers such as Camila Meza and Zahili Zamora, among others. Even the engineering is entirely female-led: Mixing engineer Jess Fenton, renowned for her work with the New York Times, and mastering engineer Maria Triana, who has spent over twenty years at Sony’s Battery Studios working on music by artists such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Bernstein, Herbie Hancock, and Britney Spears.
The album has garnered acclaim from international press outlets in Europe, the UK, and the USA, as well as airplay on radio stations worldwide. Aerts has been touring extensively, bringing her album to audiences across the US, Europe, and Korea, and has made appearances on numerous podcasts and in print media to discuss how the album champions female empowerment. Most recently, the album was awarded silver medals for both ???? best alternative jazz and ???? best female vocal jazz from the Global Music Awards.
More information on the album: https://vivienne.bandcamp.com/album/typuhth-ng
What the critics are saying:
New York-based Dutch singer Aerts' third album exists in a parallel dimension to most releases - 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
"Aerts is ethically grounded, and aesthetically off the wall."
- Nick Hasted, Jazzwise UK
“Typuhthâng Is A Luminous, Exquisitely Crafted Suite Of Music And An Album On A Mission.” – Chris May, All About Jazz
About the chocolate:
With every physical album of Vivienne Aerts’ Typuhthâng, you receive a bar of Original Beans Femmes de Virunga chocolate. The cocoa used for this chocolate is sourced from the first and largest female cocoa farmer collective on the planet: the 1500 women of ‘Femmes de Virunga’ in Virunga State Park, DRC. For every bar that Original Beans sells, the Femmes plant a tree, effectively offsetting the CO2 drawdown to the extent that the chocolate can be labeled “regenerative”. Additionally, Original Beans ensures that the farmers receive a living wage—a stable rate for their cocoa, often exceeding fair trade prices by more than 2.5 times. Aerts’ Typuhthâng comes with a bar of this Femmes de Virunga chocolate, meaning that when you purchase an album, you not only enjoy chocolate but also contribute to tree planting efforts, combat poverty, and promote gender equality.
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