Heleen van den Hombergh turned out to be a very talented jazz singer at a young age. Instead of focusing on a breakthrough, she decided to travel to Indonesia and later Costa Rica to save the rainforests as a researcher. After her return, she decided to wrap her experiences in Rush In The Woods !, an ode to the rainforests. Accompanied by Bert van den Brink (piano), Tony Overwater (bass) and Joshua
… Samson (percussion), she sings about the ups and downs of the jungle in her own compositions. She shares with us the inevitable fall of the forest giant, she tells about the unknown life in the highest treetops, shows us the dangerous antics of the 'killer tree', sings the unpredictable power of the jaguar and pays tribute to the gold miners at the edge of the forest, looking for a better life. (AD)more
