NEW RELEASES

Shervin Boloorian - Enjoy The Silence (All I Ever Wanted)

A near total reimagining of the famous 1990 Depeche Mode classic pop song and one of the first songs in the charts that I remember completely captivating me. My version alters the time signature and the melody of the original in a way that allows my voice to surge in some parts and hold back in others, in what is evolving to be my signature vocal style. 

Kipper Eldridge provided invaluable input with respect to different vocal touches and the song’s new arrangement. His piano and organ gives the song its Gospel-inspired backbone and his polished production work dresses it up in its Sunday best.  

The more soulful vocal melody that I wrote resonates with my style of singing, even though it’s an unconventional departure from the original and all of the other cover versions. 

This song has significance to me because the period of history when it was first released was probably my darkest and most troubling. A few months after I first heard it, I left home. I was only 16 when my sister became my legal guardian. I never returned to the house I grew up in again. 

Listening to this song and the whole album (Violator) on repeat provided some strange comfort. I loved Depeche Mode to such a degree that I even formed a cover band in Southern California a few years later. They are favorites of mine because of the poetic power of their song lyrics and their musical talents. To his credit, Martin Gore was never afraid to write songs about difficult subjects such as mortality, the dark side of society, faith, sex and inner chaos. Still creating great music, the band remains one of my biggest musical inspirations. Their themes and songwriting (indirectly) may have primed me for the fascination I would have for Sufism later in life. A paradoxical auditory expression about the appreciation of silence contained in this song qualifies as a spiritual subject. Thirteenth century Sufi Saint, Rumi, who was the inspiration for my second album, repeatedly wrote poetic verses about silence and keeping with silence. He ends a lot of his poems with the word "Khamoush" which means silence or ‘extinguish’ in Farsi.  Like a lot of teenagers listening to bands like the Smiths, Cure and DM, all misfits in the music world back then, it was the first time I realized that music could touch the parts of me that I had to keep hidden. Parts that are troubled and wounded and often uncomfortable.  I first developed this alternative version years ago when playing with my sons and realizing how much spending time with them meant to me. In Feb 2024, I finally started recording it for this upcoming album.

Martin Schlögl - Beacon Time

In times of chaos, desperation and craziness we need to define “time” in a new way. Time as we know it doesn’t make sense anymore. Maybe because we changed time zones and are now in the era of beacons.  

“Beacon Time” is a song about us. About how we can recognize and realize that everything we are looking for, all solutions for all the problems and all potential we search so much on the outside, lies within ourselves. 

The beacon is a representation of ourselves. We can and should light it and by doing so become a point of orientation and reference for others and at the same time inspiration for others to light up their beacons, too. 

With “Beacon Time” singer songwriter Martin Schlögl wants to remind the listener of who and what we really are. How strong we are. Why we should trust in ourselves. What we are really capable of. Which abilities lie within ourselves. And how desperate those true assets within ourselves are to be lit up and shine.

May this song help to light up people, the earth, the galaxy, the whole universe. 

After all, it’s beacon time. 

Shervin Boloorian - Never Will Hope Surrender

While the echoing subtle waves of harmonic open-tuned guitar on the fragile “Never Will Hope Surrender v.2” show his somber defiance against the injustices that have plagued those who are oppressed for speaking their truths.

Shervin Boloorian - I Hear You, Mother Earth

Award winning 3rd album from Shervin that comprises a beautiful sound journey through the elements book ended by The Medicine Song. A truly magical album

Shervin Boloorian - The Medicine Song (Deluxe)

The original plus remixes and new songs on this wonderful 5 track release

Shervin Boloorian - The Medicine Song

The 1st single from I Hear You, Mother Earth, with remixes