Shervin Boloorian - Enjoy The Silence

Enjoy the Silence (All I Ever Wanted Version): RELEASE DATE, OCT 18, 2024

Single Credits

Enjoy the Silence (All I Ever Wanted Version)
By Shervin Boloorian
Original version by Martin L. Gore / EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
Featured Artist: Sakari Heikka (FIN)
Piano, organ, instrumentation and grooves: Kipper Eldridge
Viola and string arrangements by Sakari Hiekka
Vocals, Song Revisions and Arrangement: Shervin Boloorian
Produced and Mixed by Kipper Eldridge
Mastered by Nicky Howard
Cover Art and Design by Amber M
www.Shervinboloorian.com

Enjoy the Silence Shervin’s Song Notes
(my first planned song release in Oct 2024 is a cover song)
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.