Ascertainment is the fifth track in Adecentros Vol. I

Ascertainment is Michael Adeniken’s fifth track in the album titled Adecentros Vol. I. He enters the world of electronic music after being a Classical Pianist and Composer. This is the fifth in a series of interviews about his new album.

Alexandria Burns: We’re back with another interview. Michael, how is the second half of your album, different from the first?

Michael Adeniken: Great to be back Alex. I wanted to give the listeners a different type of depth with the second half of the album. Ascertainment does just that. The sounds of this track whirl around your head like water in the ocean, powerful yet peaceful and majestic. And the theme of space and futuristic worlds is still prevalent. It just serves as a theme for transporting the listener to a place they’ve never been.

Alexandria Burns: Would you go to space, given the opportunity?

Michael Adeniken: Absolutely, I have always been fascinated with space. It seems so close, but it’s far and vast. I am always original, so for me it wouldn’t be enough to just go to the International Space Station, or walk on the moon, or even nowadays people wanting to colonize Mars. I’d have to travel to other galaxies, universes, invent something capable of breaking the laws of physics as we currently know it.

Alexandria Burns: We all admire your creativity, and ability to authentic and original. That’s what we love about you. What artist do you listen too, that makes you go ‘That’s original’?

Michael Adeniken: Originality is tough in today’s music landscape, especially with pop culture. Most tracks are samples or remixed sounds, which aren’t a bad thing. I generally listen to all kinds of music, because when you don’t limit yourself, in terms of creating a track you’re able to draw from a much greater source. To keep it within the Electronic genre, Marian Hill is whom makes me go ‘wow’. The duo of Samantha Gongol and Jeremy Lloyd, their music is definitely unique. They got ‘famous’ from the apple commercial featuring their song, but I bet if you asked them; they wouldn’t say that is their best song.

Alexandria Burns:  Last question, do you have a favorite song of Marian Hill, and what’s your favorite song of all-time?

Michael Adeniken: You putting on the spot Alex. I’ll start with the easier question, On Marian Hill’s second album, they had a song called ‘Wild’. By most people’s ears this song is simplistic. That is… to me what makes it my favorite song of theirs. They have this repeating sound of a tongue clicking in the inside of a mouth and a snap. I had never heard that in a song, haven’t heard it since. As for my favorite song(s) of all-time. That goes to The Black Keys, I have several songs that I can’t narrow down as the best. Sister and dead and gone on the album El Camino, Psychotic Girl and Oceans and Streams on the album Attack and Release, Yearin’ and Them Eyes on the album The Big Come Up, Girl Is On My Mind and Grown So Ugly on the album The Rubber Factory. I could go on and on, there is very, very few Black Keys songs that I don’t like. I even left out songs like Next Girl and Ten Cent Pistol. Dan and Patrick; much respect. In 2006, I heard a song called Just Got To Be, “Just got to be, the best thing for me”. That song, without exaggeration, changed my life.

Alexandria Burns: I’d would have thought, you’d say a classical song. A rock band being the favorite of a Classical Pianist and Composer, you always manage to surprise me. Talk to you in the next one.

Michael Adeniken: I aim to be something more. Thanks for the good conversation.

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