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IT is virtually impossible to classify MADADKIN's style, because it intentionally almost never follows any fixed patterns. Yes, there are types of music that get thrown into the MAD machinery, and it fashions blues, punk, techno, country, folk and jazz often pushing these styles into experimental and eclectic avant-gardisms, sometimes psychedelic, occasionally atonal and usually ironic or quite simply MADistic. 

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The central artist behind MADADKIN is Paul David Adkin Sherwin. Adkin-Sherwin is a gebuine polymath: singer, composer, musician, novelist, writer of tales, inventor of aphorisms, philosophical blogger, director, dramaturg, video-artist and teacher. Primarily, his work explores the need for a radical progress change and it is deeply humanist.

 

Via a jazzistic post-rock style MADADKIN raises his voice clearly about injustice and alienation; politics and religion; about our technological world and the nightmarish plutocratic system that organises and controls our lives.

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MADADKIN sees the prime duty of his creative work to be variegated. He wants his music to amuse, to puzzle and to fascinate. He hopes his listeners will feel that they are savouring a complex imagination. His style could be labelled post-rock, or post-punk but he sees himself working in a new genre that he calls post-pandemic. 

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MADADKIN’s compositions are fused in a a very committed and defined personal style with a strong progressive and humanistic vision.

 

But the MADADKIN project is much more than music: it is theatre and performance art.

 

MADADKIN not only writes songs, he produces video-art those videos play an important part of the performances. Paul Adkin, with singer, dancer and actress Ariadna Santana, bring their theatrical experience to the concert stage to create a grotesque, tragi-comic style that attacks the senses from every direction.

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Ariadna has collaborated with Madadkin on several albums combining her hauntingly innocent and bright voice with the deep rasping tones of Paul Adkin to create dramatically discordant harmonies.