Jazz Articles about Vivienne Aerts

Vivienne Aerts: Typuhthâng

by Chris May
March 6, 2023

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 cacao farming collective of 1,500 women in Virunga State Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The album grew out of conversations between the Dutch-born, New York-based singer and composer Vivienne ...