![]() She’s been through her paces and had friends in low places, but the throughline of Sibley’s life has always been music. Sibley attended Altamira Middle School and graduated from Sonoma Valley High in 1994, but is raising her two children in Santa Cruz. “The only thing I watch is Masterpiece,” she said. Last year, she finished a draft of her first novel, and she’s published several stories in literary magazines.Īs a working single mother, where does she find time? How does a modern woman make time for creativity? “I don’t watch TV,” Silbey said, before amending the statement. She’s the kind of person who sets goal and meets them. “My perspective has shifted,” she said.Ĭredit that shift to Sibley’s habit of self-determination. Who hasn’t suffered a loss in love? Who doesn’t understand that kind of longing? The album is a kind of artifact for Sibley, a snapshot of a very tough moment in time.īut in the five months since she wrote “Book of Song,” a lot has changed for Aurore Sibley, too. They tell Sibley’s story, and perhaps others’, too. The songs are wounded and raw, almost anguished in places. ‘I was going through my grief process over the end of the relationship, and that heartbreak was a good place to start. That was part of the excitement for me,” Sibley said. “I recorded and mastered all the tracks myself. Using piano, guitar and mandolin for instrumentation, Sibley plugged a microphone into her laptop and used GarageBand to engineer the songs. “I was going through my grief process over the end of the relationship, and that heartbreak was a good place to start,” Sibley said. ![]() She decided to rebrand her change of circumstance as an advantage, and during the month of March, with stage one of the quarantine in full effect, Sibley hunkered down to write some lyrics, trusting the melodies to follow. “In the months of March and April I was out of work, and had this surfeit of time after years of having none,” said Sibley, 43, who grew up in Sonoma and now lives in Santa Cruz. “Book of Song,” released on streaming platforms on July 24, is Sibley’s pantheon to pain and resilience. She began writing songs to make sense of things, and by month’s end, she’d finished 10. Sibley was left to navigate her feelings alone, and turned-as she always has-to her piano. Worse, her partner’s exit was followed by complete radio silence he simply disappeared, like mist. On March 1, Sibley was a gainfully employed woman in a committed relationship. ![]() But Aurore Sibley isn’t most people, and when heartbreak came for her in COVID’s hip pocket, instead of taking a beat, she got busy. When heartbreak elbows its way in at the end of an affair, most people take to their beds for an afternoon. ![]()
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