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In Sanskrit, JANYA means to be born, while in Korean, JANYA means around dawn. JANYA was created by four unique musicians-- all derived from Korean descent and all women. The music is a fusion of East and West. The East: Seungmin Cha- Daegeum, Eun Sun Jung- Gayageum and Woonjung Sim- Janggo. The West: half-Korean American Singer Lola Jung Danza. Something magical exists between these four musician women and so, JANYA was born, around dawn.

Lola Danza is half-Korean and born in the USA. Danza has a Bachelors degree from Berklee College of Music and a Master's degree from Aaron Copland School of Music

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Lola Danza and JANYA

by Lola Danza
December 31, 2011

Meet Lola Danza & JANYA: In Sanskrit, JANYA means to be born, while in Korean, JANYA means around dawn. JANYA was created by four unique musicians-- all derived from Korean descent and all women. The music is a fusion of East and West. The East: Seungmin Cha- Daegeum, Eun Sun Jung- Gayageum and Woonjung ...

Album

Janya

By Janya

Label: Evolver
Released: 2011
Track listing: Epilogue; No Escape; Withered New; Generations New; Mother; Epic- Subawu; Janya.

Album

Janya

By Lola Danza

Label: Evolver
Released: 2011
Track listing: Epilogue; No Escape; Withered; Generations; Mother; Epic- Sinawi; Janya.

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Article: Album Review

Janya: Janya

by Dan Bilawsky
August 3, 2011

Janya's sound is all about Korean-influenced music for the free jazz-loving soul. The members of this female foursome are all of Korean descent, and bring a free yet flowing sensibility to this seven-song program of original music. While the presence of instruments like gayageum, daegeum and janggo--a zither-like string instrument, bamboo transverse flute, ...

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Article: Album Review

Janya: Janya

Read "Janya" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 11, 2011

The name “Janya" can loosely be translated “genesis" or “beginning." In Sanskrit, it means “to be born" and in the Korean vernacular, “around dawn." Janya is both the ensemble name and debut recording title of four young Korean and Korean-American musicians attempting to cast Korean shamanic music in more modern terms than it was conceived. Korea ...