Current _ Limited Edition Compact Disc with Artwork

What began as a site-specific recording experiment became a deeply personal and collaborative journey. Vocalist, composer, and producer Vivienne Aerts transformed her 1951 mahogany sailboat, De Vouw, into a floating studio, recording while traveling through the Dutch waterways. Current weaves together voice, electronics, acoustic instruments, and field recordings of creaking wood, rippling waves, locks, birds, reeds, and wind, blurring the lines between jazz, improvisation, songwriting, and environmental sound. Dutch musicians Hermine Deurloo, Susanne Alt, and Adinda Meertins joined Aerts on different lakes and canals, with each session shaped by weather, landscape, and the rhythm of the water itself.

The CD artwork is a small invitation to step onto the water and into stillness. Housed in a cardboard fold, it gathers everything one might need for the journey: a water map with all the recording locations, a captain’s log on handmade paper, a packing list, the music itself, bird stickers of the species seen and recorded along the way, and postcards to send to your loved ones. It is more than packaging. It is a tactile travel companion for anyone who wants to drift into the world that shaped the album.