Title track from studio album Programmed, released November 2016 and produced by Ian Kelosky. 
Programmed (Music: Kelosky/Lavash, Lyrics: Lavash)

JL - guitar/vox/programming 
Ian Kelosky - Vocals/programming 
Kristine Bornholtz, Kristína Zakuciová, James Motherdale, Karl Kwashivie, Joe Cook - backing vocals

You are being programmed just like a machine. You are being ridden like a dick, my friend. Take a look around you isn't it obscene? They might as well fit you with a switch instead. Spend your whole life jut trying to be "free" - a ceaseless search for a rainbow's end. And when I say you, I also mean me. Do you think somehow I'd leave myself exempt? NO, not I:) We are being programmed just like a machine. We are being suckered like saps, my friend. Take out the hard drive, wipe it all clean. Take a deep breath and let's start again. They wind us up and off we go - running around like some clockwork toy. That synched-in feeling, binding, binary. Isn't it time to spit out the dummy? Made to live in fear through manipulation or inadequate through someone else's expectation. Here is a lifestyle you can't afford. Here is a dream to sell your grandmother for. Hit the mall and it's "Enter Sleep Mode". Somnambulist Capitalist - shop till you drop off. Everything here just reeks of sweatshop with a logo on top. How much do we really want "off". Better watch that dress code. Don't fold that bar code. Botox stops you looking old - a Thetan mutant, but without the folds - scrying into the black mirror of a dumbed=down smart phone. Shackled to the yoke from sun to none, work hard play hard, runrunrun, emotional circle jerk, knee jerk, tear jerk reaction. Every good boy deserves some fun. How many end of the stick can be wrong? HIT TOWN, RUN AROUND, CHOW DOWN, BOW DOWN, KAO-TAO, WAIT FOR THE TRICKLEDOWN, DRINK IT DOWN, DRINK IT DOWN, SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT - IT'S POISON! You're turned into a bigot, you're turned into a racist. We forgive ourselves for our misogyny. Everyone's trying to legitimize their hatred. Would it all stop if we count to three? We are being handled just like a machine. We are being postively passively fed, man. The Radio, the Internet the Press, the TV. Look at all the shit they pump into our heads! Media manipulates every twist and turn. Policy is formed on what's printed in The Mail. From outpour to outrage they lead us by the nose on issues that require some knowledge of detail.

Do you ever wonder why you get treated like a child? Do you ever wonder why you get treated like a child, my friend? Coz you're easy to control when they treat you like a child. And you're easy to mould when they treat you like a child. But I ain't no child, so don't treat me like a child, and you ain't no child, so don't act like a child. Coz I reach for the woman but you give me the child, and I beg for the woman but you give me the child, I cry for the woman but you give me the child. All you ever wanna do is give me the child. You beat me as a man but you treat like a child. I search for the man but all I see is the child. I'm man, I'm a man, I won't be treated like a child. We are being programmed to become the machine. You are being treated like a child, my boy. Here is loads more stuff you DO NOT need. Save up your pennies for a grown man's toy and be a rich man's play thing.

PROGRAMMED

Programmed

From studio album, Programmed, released November 2016, produced by Ian Kelosky
Groove Total (Lavash)
JL - guitars/vox/programming
David Landštof - drums
Beata Hlavenková - keys
Regarde autour de toi, c'est pas normal. Ils disent le fric et chic mais nous, on a à peu près que dalle. De la cote d'Azur jusque à la Côte d'Opale, au pays de Galles, ils en ont marre. Ils manifestent. C'est radical. Looks like we're heading for the Groove Total. Si tu me cherches tu me trouves dans le Groove Total.  Come on, come on, come on, c'est le Groove Total - c'est phénoménal. Come on, come on, come on, c'est le Groove Total - c'est abyssal. Ah oui mon cher, il faut une vie plus frugal. Car le système bancaire devient un peu bancal. Il y a des soupçons de fraude fiscale dans la sphère gouvernementale, et à Sangatte il n'y a plus d'entente cordiale - ah non. C'est  infernal, ces bandes tribales, hymne nationale. Que reste-t-il dans l'arsenal ? La grève générale ou le Groove Total?

Groove Total

From Live in Prague 2015 album, produced by Ian Kelosky

Avalanche - (Words and music - justin Lavash)

It was getting real bad
it was hell for a while
They were forcing my hand
I was forcing a smile

I was running on empty
trying to keep with the pack
I was saying a prayer 
they would cut me some slack

Sometimes it feels like you're drowning
and they give you a wave
but when you get to the shore
that's when you're going to get saved

All that speaking in tongues
all those reasons and rhymes
did we run out of rope for the lifeline?

So hold out your hand with the olive branch
hold on to your hats, boys
Here comes the avalanche

Here comes the avalanche
Here comes the avalanche
Here comes the avalanche

I was feeling so old
I was fighting for breath
I was counting the days
I was looking like death

I was pushing the boat out 
getting out of line
Put your hand on your heart
Say it ain't justified

Sometimes it feels like you're flying
Then they chop you a line
Sometimes they call it a living
but we both know it's dying

So I hold out my hand with the olive branch
hold on to your hats, boys
Here comes the avalanche

Here comes the avalanche
Here comes the avalanche
Here comes the avalanche

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So I hold out my hand with the olive branch
hold on to your hats, boys
Here comes the avalanche

Here comes the avalanche
Here comes the avalanche
Here comes the avalanche

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Avalanche

From the album Live in Prague 2015, produced by Ian Kelosky
Easy Train - (Words/Music - Justin Lavash)

I wanna ride on the easy train
Get a first-class ticket take me out of the rain
Sitting in the diner with a glass of champagne
You want a window seat?
It can be arranged.
I wanna ride on the easy train

Find me somebody who can take the reins
I've got a long limousine; it's a top of the range
Start the car - won't you take me home James
Here's something for you
You can keep the change
Find me somebody who can take the reins

Won't you get me a doctor who can ease the pain
Tell him I'll pay him when my ship comes in
I've got to face the music, got to take the blame
but first I think I'll have the same again
Get me a doctor who can ease the pain
Get me a doctor who can ease the pain

I've got to go and get it straight with the man
It's been a long time coming, been a hell of a shabang
Well I wonder if he sees me in the bigger plan
Sometimes I wonder if he gives a damn
I've got to go and get it straight with the man
I've got to go and get it straight with the man

Easy Train

From the album Live in Prague 2015, produced by Ian Kelosky
Dirty Money - (Words/Music - Justin Lavash)

You can keep your dirty money
I don't need your dirty money
Where's your dirty money been?
What's your dirty money seen?

You can keep your dirty loving
I don't need your dirty loving
Where's your dirty loving been?
What's your dirty loving seen?

With your dirty, dirty love and your dirty money
How we gonna wash the stain clean, buddy?
Tell me, which policeman could take the test -
put the bluey-white back in this dirty old mess?
And here I stand waiting at your door
Waiting for you to dish up just a little bit more
of your dirty, dirty love - your dirty, dirty money
How we gonna wash the stain clean, buddy?

Well, the cleanest thing you own is your dirty books
but you keep 'em hid away, coz of the dirty looks
that all your dirty friends with their dirty little jokes
would give you if they knew you knew what they all know - that your

Dirty, dirty love and your dirty money
ain't never gonna wash the stain clean, buddy
Tell me, which politician could take the test -
put the bluey-white back in this dirty old mess?
And here I stand waiting at your door
Waiting for you to dish up just a little bit more
of your dirty, dirty love - your dirty, dirty money
How we gonna wash the stain clean, buddy?

You can keep this lonely chord
Take it as a sign of your just reward
for being squeaky-clean; it's the new hygiene
Come up smelling like a rose dipped in Listerine
and sleeping like a log, man, sound as a bell
but you're dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty as hell

With your dirty, dirty love and your dirty money, etc., etc.

You can't keep your dirty money
Coz I need your dirty money
One thing's been bothering me
How we gonna make your dirty money clean?

You can't keep your dirty loving
Coz I need your dirty loving
One thing's been troubling me
How we gonna make your dirty loving clean?

With your dirty, dirty love and your dirty money, etc., etc.

Dirty Money

From the album Changing of Tides (Tranzistor), produced by Ian Kelosky. Words/Music: Justin Lavash

David Landštof - drums
Jonas Krejčí - cello
Ian Kelosky - backing vocals

Changing of TIdes

The Shape of Someone

From the album Live in Prague 2015, recorded/produced by Ian Kelosky

Blow out the candle (Words/music - Justin Lavash)


Blow out the candle and a sailor dies
Turn your head my darling as the gentlemen go by
Hang up the horseshoe, upside down
Better cross your heart before you drive into town

Odds and evens, put a flower on the grave
Pay off the priest so a soul can be saved
One for sorrow, two for joy
The sailor went to sea and now he's looking for the buoy

Cover up the clock, roll the blinds right down
Keep the music playing till the ship goes down
Save up your pennies for the dead man's eyes
Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell no lies

Me and you sitting on a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Blow out the candle

Brand new track from Justin Lavash's forthcoming CD, 25 Years. Official launch will be 30th May at Vltavska KC, Prague! CD features Lenka Dusilova, David Landštof, Beata Hlavenkova, Ian Kelosky and many more. Recorded and produced by Ian Kelosky 

Give Up Give Over

Song originally found on demo album "Slide" (2010), this song was re-arranged and this version came from a live show at Prague's Studio Pamět in March 2018. The track appears on new album "Live in Prague vol.ii",produced and mastered by Ian Kelosky, released October 2018

Slide

This song was originally featured on demo album "Slide"(2010). This version comes from a live show in Prague's Studio Pamět' in March 2018. The recording was produced and mastered by Ian Kelosky for new album "Live in Prague vol.ii" (October 2018)

When We Came To Dover

From studio album, Programmed (2016), produced by Ian Kelosky

Meditation Gong (Lavash)
Justin Lavash - guitar/vox/programming/vocal arrangements
David Landötof - drums
Karl Kwashivie - electro-city shredguitar
KristÌna Zakuciov· - vocals
Ian Kelosky, James Motherdale, Karl Kwashivie, Joe Cook - backing vocals

Low-down and lifeless. Feel that hunger coming on. Top E-string tightness, sugar crisis - man, that panic's coming on. I'm holding out for that meditation gong. I'm holding off that medication. I was sat in bars till closing time. I was putting twists on paradigms. I was painted in by peer group pressure. Man, I found the pain in pleasure. Music: guilded craft and cage. I was hissing, spitting, seething rage. Feel the draw of the city, it's the law of the city. We're all whores of the city in the roar of the city, coz'it's war in the city at the core of the city - the mendacity, the complicity, the velocity, the eccentricity, the electro-city. Need neuroplasticity. Man, that anger's coming on. I'm holding off that medication. Any woman that comes near me again gonna find herself in need of a very special friend for a very long conversation about how men let them down again, just won't pay the rent and work till back is bent. Throw them away when they are spent. Let me tell you how it is done. Gotta look after number one. You ride 'em hard till they are done. Chew the flavour out of the chewing gum. Puts you in her pocket like a half-cocked gun. [Signum Diabolicum!] That Jezebel carries the Signum Diabolicum. [That Jezebel must burn!] He rides that diamond shorn. THAT JELLY ROLL DONE PUT ITS DENTURES ON! I'm holding out for that meditation gong. I'm holding off that medication. Concave, convex, complex. Concave man. Cave conman. Vexed caveman. King Kong! King Kong, man. Hungry, snarling, snapping dog. Oh yeah, that weed is strong. Tell me how is that Mogadon? How is that medication? COz I'm holding out for that meditation gong.

Meditation Gong

Justin Lavash composition from his recent CD 25 Years, featuring David Landstof on drums and produced by Ian Kelosky for RedRoom Group

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