Vish Khanna on a memoir about fulfilling a musical dream

Eric Siblin had a dream: He wanted to record an album of his own original material. Over the course of a year he did just that, and he has turned that creative venture into the subject of his book Studio Grace. 

The Next Chapter's music columnist Vish Khanna is a music writer and host of the podcast Kreative Kontrol. He came in to Toronto from his home in Guelph to speak to Shelagh Rogers about Studio Grace. This interview originally aired on March 21, 2016.

ON A BOOK ABOUT A MUSICAL DREAM

Eric Siblin wanted to make a record. He wanted to be a recording artist but he felt like he didn't really know how to do it. He'd been in a few bands, but he'd never made a record and expressed himself as a songwriter, so he decided he was going to look into it. He documented the whole process in this book, and then he made a record called Studio Grace, and the release of the record coincided with the release of this book.

WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS "LONG-FORM INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST"

Whether or not you care for the kind of music he's making and the genre he's immersed in, I would think that for a general reader this would prove to be a really insightful look at how someone would go about making a record. He's clearly going in a folk-rock realm, maybe a little bit more experimental here and there, and his description of the songs he's written is quite vivid. He worked in three different studios with at least three different producers and engineers, so he gets different sounds — they each have their own ideas about how to capture things and make things.

Vish Khanna's comments have been edited and condensed.