Recorded in Sub Studios Prague in June-July 2016 for the album PROGRAMMED. Mixed/Mastered/Produced by Ian Kelosky, Words/Music: Justin Lavash
lyrics
This Is Now! (Lavash)
Broadcasting and receiving. Precision Musician Magician Collision Physician Condition a Schism Division Petition Derision Revision Rendition - a Mission: From the rift to the riff. This is now - a vision. This is now - in remission. Everything is moving, morphing, melding, moulding, grafting, grasping, grooving, seething, sighing, splitting, soothing. The past is just a memory, the future just a thought. But this is now. Scudding 'cross the stratosphere, sat on Einstein's crossbar. Nothing is hidden in the fist of the teacher. Peel off peer-to-peer group pressure. Anitur, anitur, anitur, anitur - a state of becoming and then passing away. This is now. Now then, this is now. C'est maintenant. Jawohl, es ist jetzt. Právě, je to ted´. Everything is changing. Nothing stays in stasis - awareness, perception, reaction, sensation, addition, addition, sedition, contrition, but volition - it's volition that should guide the decision. People aren't the means; they're the goal. Don't worry:) Nothing is under anyone's control. Coz this is now. There is a road and it is long. How are your feet? Still going strong? Thought can't be turned off and on, but other things are going on. Awareness, perception, reaction, sensation, taste, touch, smell, sight, sound. Coz this is now. Here's a hearty folk song old, whose words they hold true still: If young men fail to when they may, they shall not when they will. Coz this is now!
credits
from PROGRAMMED,
released November 30, 2016
JL - guitars/vox/programming
Ian Kelosky - programming/backing vocals
Kristína Zakuciová, James Motherdale, Karl Kwashivie, Joe Cook / backing vocals, Mike Kyselka - backing vocals/harmonica
Justin Lavash (born London 1968) has been based in Prague for 18 years and during that time has established himself as a
must-see act on the Czech music scene and abroad. His music crosses borders - somewhere between blues, folk and jazz. His phenomenal guitar playing has left many audiences wondering how so much polyphony can be made by one man on one instrument....more
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