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Justin Lavash + DJ Telly Savalas - Lock Me Down

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Songs are stories and there are usually stories behind songs as well. My latest offering is no exception. A few weeks ago I got a message from Telka Metelka asking if I’d be interested in laying down some bluesy guitar on a drum track he was working on. I grabbed the chance, grateful for being given something creative to do, because it’s so easy to get depressed when you’re just twiddling your thumbs at home with no concerts. Inevitably the reality of lockdown started to leak into the words that were now working their way into the riff I’d decided to put with the beat.
In a way, the fact that I was laying down blues-type riffs on a House beat seemed fitting. I’ve always liked the fact that folk music in general and Blues in particular can be a platform to vent one’s spleen, as it were. I was moaning about Lockdown, but I also realise that quarantine is an unpleasant necessity. Sometimes we just have to let out a howl of frustration.
I first started “connecting” with House music in 1991 when I was in Liverpool. A decade of hard Conservatism had left the city in a terrible state. Unemployment was massive, and so, sadly, was crime. Nobody had any money, and then suddenly people started putting House parties together, pooling their resources (records/PAs/“stimulants”) to dance their cares away for a while. It didn’t solve the problems they were facing, but it made them disappear for a few hours.
Ian Kelosky did a great job on mixing and mastering my recordings, and I asked Scott De Castro to film a video. We were going to do something in Cross Club, Prague, but sadly a new lockdown came into force and we had to think of somewhere else. I began to look at my own flat. It’s ground floor, and has bars on the windows. I suddenly thought that it would be a great location for a video about lockdown, partly because of the bars and partly because I had all my gig lights and smoke machine here. I started to think about how I could make my own living space a “club for one”. We can, to some extent, change our mood by changing our perceptions of things. Liverpool taught me that and CoVid is reminding me of it.

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from SANITAS ANIMAE, released December 13, 2020

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Od roku 1990 pomáháme lidem dostat se z bludného kruhu závislosti.

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