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Omenya is Mark Davis, a multi-media artist and ritual ambient / noise musician who resides in the mountains of North Carolina, United States. Heavily influenced by early Zoviet France and then later Rapoon, his music also reflects and incorporates his interest in the esoteric rituals and ceremonies of various world religions. All of the music of Omenya is created and produced from Delicate Balance Studios in the deep dark woods surrounding his sanctuary. .

Formerly self-exiled from South Africa in the 1960s, Caiphus Semenya has built a solid reputation as a musical director and composer, working with his wife, vocalist Letta Mbulu, as well as with a variety of other exiled and semi-exiled African artists, such as Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba. Moving to Los Angeles, Semenya found himself working with and composing for a broad range of jazz and pop artists, including Lou Rawls, Nina Simone and Cannonball Adderley, his facility with both jazz and African forms serving him well. Semenya's Los Angeles stay also yielded an ongoing collaboration with Quincy Jones, resulting...