+ FEBRUARY 2024 PART I

Crystal Ball is a collaboration between the producers, singers and songwriters Cliff Barnes a.k.a. Animal Ghosts and Kenneth Estrada y Santiago a.k.a Unkenny Valleys. "Animal Ghosts produces music on a macbook in his bedroom in Portland (US)", Kenneth explains, "I've been following Cliff's music creations for 2 years and always liked that he just started writing and recording music with very limited gear and knowledge. Modern technology makes that possible. But you have to use your ears only and should understand what you're going for. He's very talented and I just couldn't resist to ask him if he'd like to collaborate on one song."

Lyrically 'Crystal Ball' is a question to the personal life motivations of an artist living in the 21 century. It's been written with a melancholic view on the disappearance of alternative rock music from the mainstream and how it feels to grow up in the early 90s and making a living as an alternative rock artist in our modern age. The guitar chords, that slightly remind of 90s rock hit 'Zombie' by The Cranberries and the beat programming that could be an hommage to the song 'The Hills' by The Weekend, give 'Crystal Ball' very unique theme. 

LYRICS

Hey crystal ball
What do you see
Just tell me any prophecy
Why does it mean 
So much to me
There must be more than just

Feeling heroic
Like one of the gods
Being iconic
Like nobody ever was

Gotta find out
What all this is about
That drives me insane
Since forever

Fight and lose it all
Over and over again
So illusional
When it doesn't mean anything

Show me my limits
What is my destiny
I wanna know what it's like

Fight and lose it all
Over and over again

No matter what the future reveals
Ain't been no nadir I couldn't defy
Time is a wave and at the peak I'm gonna fly
Until the day I day I will

Fight and lose it all
Over and over and over
So illusional
When it doesn't mean anything

Fight and lose it all
Over and over again
So illusional
When it doesn't mean anything

Show me my limits
What is my destiny
I wanna know what it's like

Fight and lose it all
Over and over again


CREDITS

Cliff Barnes - guitars, vocals
Kenneth Estrada y Santiago - vocals, guitars, beat programming

Edited and mixed by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Mastered by Joe Bandy

© 2022 Pitchbox Music, Berlin

Crystal Ball

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Watch the live performance on Youtube: https://youtu.be/r7zX83WDaY4

LYRICS

On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealin' past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed

Searching out fear in the gathering gloom
And suddenly a movement in the corner of the room
And there is nothing I can do when I realize with fright
That the Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes

Be still, be calm, be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The Spiderman is having you  for dinner tonight

And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning
I will wake up in the shivering cold
But the Spiderman is always hungry

HOMEPAGE https://www.unkennyvalleys.com

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