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"Afraid of A.I." is a collaboration between the synth-guitar virtuoso Keith Canisus a.ka. Shortwave Broadcaster and singer, songwriter Kenneth Estrada y Santiago a.k.a Unkenny Valleys. The song developed from an original Shortwave Broadcaster ambient tune named "Afraid of AI" and inspired Kenneth to take fragments of the guitars and add an almost incalculable but still boppy rhythm to it. 
"Keith Canisus' ambient guitar layers just made me wanna sing this exact melodies. The lyrics almost came without any thinking. I just wanted to surf with my voice of top of these glowing sonic waves." - Kenneth explains. "I have always been a fan of his work since I've listend to his solo EPs "The Great White Shark" and "Save The Sharks" in 2013."

LYRICS

Gimme that - I wanna lose myself
Too complicated that it blows my mind
Just imagine if we could command
Every task we wanna simplify
To systems so much more intelligent
I'm afraid, I'm afraid of A.I.

CREDITS

Keith Canisius - synthesizer guitar layers
Kenneth Estrada y Santiago - vocals, guitars, synth bass, beat programming
Edited, mixed and mastered by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Music video by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
© Pitchbox Music, Berlin

Cybergaze

Afraid of AI

Afraid of AI (feat. Shortwave Broadcaster)

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

Crystal Ball (feat. Animal Ghosts)

Watch the live performance on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9RRIDpYS1s

Cherish The Day

Cherish The Day(Sade Cover) Live Session

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LYRICS

Where would you go when you feel like dancing
I remember a sea of light
Where my shirt is white and I feel so handsome
I'm gonna be there
Will I see you tonight?

Palms along the highway
The sun right down the road
Top down
You're always right beside me
No matter where it goes
Top down

I've waited for so long 'till you answered 
"Will you still be there when I arrive?"
Oh you can count on me
There is nothing that could ever change an old mind

Palms along the highway
The sun right down the road
Top down
You're always right beside me
No matter where it goes
Top down

And it will be fine
Just take your time
There's no reason to hurry
Enjoy the ride

And it will be fine
Just take your time
There's no reason to hurry
Enjoy the ride

I'd take you anywhere
But I can't think of any place in the galaxy
That I would rather like to be
When I see

Palms along the highway
The sun right down the road
Top down
You're always right beside me
No matter where it goes
Top down

Palms along the highway
The sun right down the road
Top down
You're always right beside me
No matter where it goes
Top down

Palms along the highway
(And will be fine)
The sun right down the road
(Just take your time)
Top down
(There's no reason to hurry)
(Enjoy the ride)
You're always right beside me
(And it will be fine)
No matter where it goes
(Just take your time)
Top down
(There is no reason to hurry)
(Enjoy the ride)
CREDITS

Coerte Voorhees - solo guitar, backing vocals
Sebastian Völkers - drums
Kenneth Estrada y Santiago - vocals, guitars, bass

Edited, mixed and mastered by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago

© 2022 Pitchbox Music, Berlin

Giant Yellow Eyes

Top Down

Top Down (feat. Squirrel King & Sebastian Völkers)

In 2016, while reworking and rewriting lyric parts of an older song titled 'Lewdness', I inadvertently penned 'Crawl'. It emerged as a stronger, faster, and more powerful version than its predecessor. The song's protagonist no longer sees themselves as a victim of a toxic relationship, but as someone who chooses their own path and decides to break away from their current life situation. In 2020, I connected with Miles Senzaki (Point Lobo), an animation artist, musician, and songwriter from Los Angeles. His drumming infused 'Crawl' with the powerful energy the song had always yearned for.

LYRICS

"This is ours!" is the sentence
You wish me to state
But I'm still not interested in
Living in your chains

'Cause since the day we met
I saw sly lewdness in your eyes
There's nothing you can get here
You don't even need to try

I won't crawl
By your side
I won't drown
In a counterfeit

No, I don't want to
Wear your chains
I'll be gone
This very day

(Very day)
(Very day)
(Very day)

Look at you
You always seem to be
Beside yourself
A concept, no self-consciousness
Everything is fake

We have nothing in common
But you still want me near by
Looks like you need to get another
Toy as a pastime

I won't crawl
By your side
I won't drown
In a counterfeit

No, I don't want to
Wear your chains
I'll be gone
This very day

I won't crawl
By your side
I won't drown
In a counterfeit

No, I don't want to
Wear your chains
I'll be gone
This very day

Going from you
It's about time
I'll be gone
This very night

Do I love you
Be sure I don't
I don't belong here anymore

(Anymore)
(Anymore)
(Anymore)

CREDITS

Miles Senzaki - drums
Kenneth Estrada y Santiago - vocals, guitars, bass

Drums recorded and performed by Miles Senzaki  a.k.a. Point Lobo
Edited, mixed and mastered by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago

Crawl

Crawl (feat. Point Lobo)

"Picture yourself in a fight with your anxieties. It's irrelevant who or what is confronting you at the moment, it could even be your own inner voice causing turmoil within. You aspire to display strength but occasionally fear can appear overwhelmingly colossal, leaving you feeling helpless and defeated - this is precisely what the song portrays - an image of being overpowered by once fears."

LYRICS

Infesting fire from hell
Your anger clings tight to my neck
Feeling to tired to combat 
What's awakened from the dead

Please hear me out
Don't fear me now
You freak me out
You freak me out

My shirt battered by your blades
Explainations burn in your flames
Oh, I was trying to tame you
Allegations graze my membranes

Please hear me out
Don't fear me now
You freak me out
You freak me out

Music written and produced by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Mastered by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago

©2023 Berlin, Pitchbox Music

Freak Me Out

Arrival

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LYRICS

It was near, it was clear
I could see it from here
I just went to bed
And then I saw it appear

I could not trust my eyes
And yet I wasn't surprised
Because right 'bout that time
I felt that curious drive

It's what my curious mind
Chose to believe
Now they want it to be
A childhood fantasy

From my phone to my friend
Goes a message that said
"Look outside, would you dare?"
He was simply to scared 

Every move so in vein
Tries of talking - the same
So aflamed by the blue
I felt attracted to you

My back is taking off the bottom sheets
I'll be back soon
Shadow men right by the side of me
I'll be back soon
I wish I'd say goodbye before I leave
I'll be back soon
But that is not on me
That is not on me

Usually they don't remember
It was not supposed to happen
He has opened up his eyes
It was not supposed to happen
All this should be long forgotten

Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
Away
Away

It's what my dubious mind
Chose to believe
Just don't want it to be
A childhood fantasy

Childhood Fantasy

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LYRICS

I blow the dust off your things
I through your thoughts in a bin
I find your fears and your sins

I washed your costumes and think
Of all the times you wore them
And what has happend since

Astral City
Astral City
Astral City
Ouh Ouh Ouh Ouh

Your books are sodden and weird
They formed what prophets revealed
And caused what couldn't be healed

The coded lines are crossed out
You couldn't trust them no more
You never told me why
You had to face your destiny in 

Astral City
Hinter dem Gedanken Nebel
Astral City
Jeseits aller Endlichkeit
Astral City
Wach auf! Wir können fliegen
Astral City
Ich wär so gern geblieben

Und alles kollabiert
Wir hören auf zu existieren
Öffne die Augenlieder
Bring mich zurück zu ihr nach

Astral City
Die Zeit ist um der Traum stürzt ein

Astral City

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LYRICS

Neon, Neon
Neon, Neon

And here I'm waiting outside
In the clear and cold night
I keep my face in line
With all the lights that move in the sky

Everything's blurry - can't see
Wiping the lens with my sleeve
I'm the observatory
Me on my balcony

Come here I'm waiting outside
In the clear and cold night
I keep my face in line
With all the lights that move in the sky

Left in a lone galaxy
Everything's bigger than me
Restrained by gravity
Me on my balcony

And here I'm waiting outside
In the clear and cold night
I keep my face in line
With all the lights that move in the sky

Everything's blurry - can't see
Wiping the lens with my sleeve
I'm the observatory
Neon, Neon
Neon, Neon

Neon Neon

Neon Neon (feat. Oshan)

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Originally crafted for the electrifying world of 'Cyberpunk 2077,' "Nova" was my submission to that big games song competition. Although it didn't make the final cut for the in-game radio, I believed it was destined for another special purpose. "Nova" embodies what I like to call the 'Cybergaze' sound – a fusion of a far too slow electronic beat and the alarming noise guitars of shoegaze. I wanted the people to feel futuristic soundscapes within a technological melancholia. The song tells the tale of two 'Edge-Runners,' their bodies augmented with cybernetic enhancements, trapped in a bleak and dystopian existence. With no escape from their desolation, they see but one way out – to obliterate their world with a bomb, hoping to start anew from the ashes. Let "Nova" transport you to a world where humanity's limits are pushed to the edge.

LYRICS

I run for you, Hon
Until it is done
'Cause this the only 
Hope that we've got

It made me a thieve
Of metal and meat
Got nothing to lose
When the price is so preem

Deep scars on my skin
And scrapes on my chrome
Will probably end as
A cyberpsycho

Bring me to the moon
This planet is 
This planet is
This planet is doomed

Baby you're nova
Let's just take it over
We're the supernova
The final bomb to end it all

Conducted by lust
And broken by trust
We're wheezing the air
That is left in the dust

But soon comes the day
We're getting away
We'll make it look easy
No matter the pain

We'll break trough the sky
And get our high
And leave it behind

Baby you're nova
Let's just take it over
We're the supernova
The final bomb to end it all

We'll make it look easy

Baby you're nova
Let's just take it over

We'll Make it look easy

'Cause we're the supernova
The final bomb to end it all

Nova

Metro Mayham

Metro Mayhem

Here's the place
My mind's selected
The sun's gold
My tears reflect it

Misanthrope
Whom I now detected
Cross the fog
There's a new perspective

It is a dream
And not at all
I gotta go
I'm an oneironaut

This isn't me
I gotta go
I wanna be free

Gonna take you to the other side
Let this all behind

It's no hoax, it's no magic trick
At the most it's a fantasy
But it's based on my memories
Of another reality

A place where I shut myself away
Everytime things get to my head
So I close my eyes
For the unexpected

What if our time's not limited
As we were told
What if our mind's a map
We're powerless to fold

I never saw something like this before

It is a dream
And not at all
I gotta go
I'm an oneironaut

This isn't me
I gotta go
I wanna be
Just an oneironaut

It is a dream
And not at all
I gotta go
I'm an oneironaut

This isn't me
I gonna go
I wanna be free
As an oneironaut

It is a dream
And not at all
I gotta go
I'm an oneironaut

This isn't me
I gotta go
I wanna be
Just an oneironaut

It is a dream
And not at all
I gotta go
I'm an oneironaut

This isn't me
I gonna go
I wanna be free
As an oneironaut

I'm an oneironaut
I'm an oneironaut
I never saw somehing like this before
I'm an oneironaut
I'm an oneironaut
I'm an oneironaut
I'm an oneironaut
I never saw somehing like this before

---

Written and produced 
by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Pitchbox Productions
©2019 Berlin

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Oneironaut

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn_ELQXvg5c

Gazing from the highest
Building of the city
Up my arms are rising
Tell myself: So this is the end
So this is the end

Listen to soundscaspe
Real becomes the vision
Targeting the grounding
This is my decision
But then 
She made it again

She saves me again
She saves me again
Her heart is a treat
Her kisses, so sweet
They make me forget

Look, your plastic faces
Lovely covered hatred
Insincere temptations
Aiming for my craving
That game
It drives me insane

Memory eraser
Polish my behaviour
Let's get back and labor
Make me feel so uncomfortable
(Salvation)
Now once and for all
(Salvation)

She saves me again
She saves me again
Her heart is a treat
Her kisses, so sweet
They make me forget

She saves me again
She saves me again
Her heart is a treat
Her kisses, so sweet
They make me forget

And together we're taking off
And together we're taking off

She saves me again
She saves me again
Her heart is a treat
Her kisses, so sweet
They make me forget
(Make me forget)

She saves me again
She saves me again
Her heart is a treat
Her kisses, so sweet
They make me forget
(Forget)
Make me forget

---

Written and produced 
by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Pitchbox Productions
©2019 Berlin

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She Saves Me Again

LYRICS

How can I see myself 
I wanna do it right 
Well-ment intentions blend 
Into a darker light 

Don't wanna force you 
Into my own paradise 
Where I just chew and champ 
My own sweet lies 

You need time for yourself 
Let me know 
I just want you to be 
Happy 
Happy 

Everything else feels just 
Deadly now 
So let me make it right 
Let me 
Let me 

My world fell upside-down 
Where is my empathy 
So much to figure out 
To solve that mystery 

Give me a hint 
Just a little something 
Don't keep me in suspense 
Anymore 

You need time for yourself 
Let me know 
I just want you to be 
Happy 
Happy 

Everything else feels just 
Deadly now 
So let me make it right 
Let me 
Let me 

You need time for yourself 
Let me know 
All that I want for you is to be 
Happy 
Happy 

Everything else feels just 
Deadly now 
So let me make it right 
Let me 
Let me 

I just want you to be 
Happy 
Happy 
...

Released July 19, 2019 

Written and produced by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago 
Mastered by Dennis Kern at Studio Wong, Berlin 
Cover Artwork by Araz Rostami 

"Happy Happy" by Unkenny Valleys is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at pitchbox.bandcamp.com/track/happy-happy.

©2019 Berlin, Pitchbox Productions

Happy Happy

"V-Reality" is an online music coorperation between Kenneth Estrada y Santiago of Unkenny Valleys (Berlin, GER) and Tomoya Matsuura of Sourin (Tokio, JP).

LYRICS

If it's all about to be yourself
Would you really want to stick with me
If it's all about to play by your own rules
Who would get the lead and who would be the fool

Our story on a tv screen
Would it be a movie worth to see
Would it be so good you'd buy the dvd
Our romance just another dramedy

I want crush every screen
It's just a movie scene
Unplug that thing and take it down down down
Honey, we're stuck in here
In v-reality
Open the window, we must get out now

It's a concept that we're living in
But we didn't factor nature in
I can't sacrefice any more space or time
So let's find the place that noone else can find

Cause I can see it now
Gettin closer and closer
Let us release our doubts
Till we can see the ocean

It could be reality
Skipping the insanity
Acting all off-script
It'll be fine

I want crush every screen
It's just a movie scene
Turn off that thing and sling it out out out
Honey, we're stuck in here
In v-reality
Open the window, we must get out now

---
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Lyrics, vocals, bass, lead-guitar, drums by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Composition, arrangement, vocals, guitars by Tomoyo Matsuura
Mixed & mastered by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago
Cover artwork by Kenneth Estrada y Santiago

©2019 Pitchbox Music, Berlin

V-Reality

V-Reality (feat. Sourin)

Well it’s about time
It’s beginning to hurt
Time you made up your mind
Just what is it all worth

All my useless advice
All my hanging around
All your cutting down to size
All my bringing you down

Watch the clock on the wall
Feel the slowing of time
Hear a voice in the hall
Echoing in my mind

All your stupid ideals
You’ve got your head in the clouds
You should see how it feels
With your feet on the ground

Here I stand the accused
With your fist in my face
Feeling tired and bruised
With the bitterest taste

All my useless advice
All my hanging around
All your cutting down to size
All my bringing you down

All your stupid ideals
You’ve got your head in the clouds
You should see how it feels
With your feet on the ground

Useless

Useless (Depeche Mode Cover)

You can quit and be free
Let it go, let it fall
Like trees their leaves in autumn

You can long for the sweetest dreams
And run, on and on
And nothing's gonna happen

Hold on for a little while
Fold it up like a pocket knife
You act just like you're blind
But all the time there was nothing to miss

I know you wish
I know wish it was summer
Just like the one in the stories of others
Winter's cold can drill and sting
It won't be very long

And it's spring

Seize the morning
When it's dawning
And sing
You can own it
If you trust your instincts
It is only real
As long as you think it is

What you admire needs some time to recover
Before it shows all it's beautiful colors
Be with the rain
Let it fall

And it's spring

Seize the morning
When it's dawning
And sing
You can own it
If you trust your instincts
It is only real
As long as you think it is

Cause this is where you belong

Let it go, let it fall
Like the leaves of autumn
Seize the day, seize the dawn
Do you hear me calling

And if it's not what you think you'd deserve
You gonna find a way to make it your own

Cause this is where you belong

Let it go, let it fall
Like the leaves of autumn
Seize the day, seize the dawn
Do you hear me calling

And if it's not what you think you'd deserve
You gonna find a way to make it your own

Seize the day, seize the dawn
Can you hear me

Spring

Seize the morning
When it's dawning
And sing
You can own it
If you trust your instincts
It is only real
As long as you think it is

Let it go

Until Spring
Seize the morning
When it's dawning
And sing
You can own it
If you trust your instincts
It is only real
As long as you think it is

Spring

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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

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Lullaby

Lullaby (The Cure Cover)

Lullaby (The Cure Cover) Live Session

Unkenny Valleys is the solo project of Berlin based producer and multi-instrumentalist Kenneth Estrada y Santiago, who's transforming trauma, nightmares, heart & mind into blissfully fuzzed-out pop songs.

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