bio

the lava project: an amalgamation of soulful and lustful electronic grooves and instrumentation, poetry and random contributions from unexpected musical elements. jacob james henry's brainchild of collecting the talents of cross-genre musicians and djs, to create something fresh and interesting for the second half of the 1st millenial decade. just music. jacob james henry: graduate of UC Berkeley, originally trained as a jazz musician, has spent the past 10 years in New York and Japan, developing his production, songwriting and philosophy chops. now ready to break out and float an electronic-oriented, song and groove based project. In 2003/2004 Jacob test-marketed demo versions of a couple of tracks from the then in-progress Lava Project debut on the net, and got some good feedback, and some success with both tracks going to number 1 on their respective mp3.com charts. From 2001 to the present, he has been involved in a variety of performing and production work, including vocals for TV commercials , video games and, as well as sound design and scoring for film and DVD projects.