Fulmerford via Google Reader:
SIGHTING: John Shade Sings! Recording under the pseudonym John Shade (a name
he gleaned from a fictional poet in the Vladimir Nabokov novel “Pale Fire’’),
Godowsky has released his debut album, “All You Love Is Need.’’(The rest at The
Boston Globe.) The musician's official web site is at http://johnshademusic.com/
JM: Hey, Juan Martinez... does
John Shade then really sing?*
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* "To promote “All You Love Is Need,’’ John
Shade has been coheadlining a residency at the Armory in Somerville each
Thursday in February, and he has enlisted the Neave String Quartet to accompany
him, along with bassist Zack Hickman and guitarist Mark Erelli. Ultimately,
Godowsky says, “All You Love Is Need’’ is a reflection of who he is and who he
isn’t. Hence the nom de plume of a character who may or may not have existed in
Nabokov’s novel. “Blurring the line between fiction and reality totally played
into what I was doing and how I was writing,’’ he says. “It just felt right
artistically. I mean, it would be inaccurate to call this a Dave Godowsky
record. The songs are not strictly accounts of events. They’re drawn from real
things, but they’re not about things that happened to Dave Godowsky.’’Another
person John Shade isn’t, he insists: a record label A&R guy with a vanity
project. The suggestion that this might be the perception stings
him."