But, individually, as far as people are concerned, Im an optimist, because I believe theres a lot of good in people. Stuart Matthewman, also known as Cottonbelly, is an accomplished writer, composer, producer, and of course, Sade's right-hand man; playing saxophone and guitar alongside her since their band. ' Maxwell recalls. Now I collect books, but I never have time to read them. Varese Sarabande : A 30th Anniversary Celebration (A Chronicle Of Great Film Music 2003-2008) [omnibus, ost] (2016) by Various Artists () on maniadb.com I wanted the cover to not be my face, Maxwell says. We played in Rio and the audience there, they just sang along to every song really loudly! He appeared on all of Sade's tours and albums: Diamond Life, Promise, Stronger Than Pride, Love Deluxe, Lovers Rock, and Soldier of Love all of which went triple platinum in the U.S. and have totalled sales over 40 million albums worldwide. But we were accepted and there were no problems, no questions or conflicts because we were different. Urban Hang Suite is really just soul, with a lineage that reaches back to Keni Burkes Risin to the Top, Sades Haunt Me, the English group Loose Ends we both loved their mix of drum machines and live stuff, Matthewman says and Shuggie Otis, among others. . How do you help a global marketing team manage that? In 1996 Matthewman along with Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman formed the studio band Sweetback. As Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album. Yeah. ', Maxwell follows that intro with four gently danceable cuts, including the Ware co-write Sumthin Sumthin' originally titled Hot Chocolate, the track has, the albums most aggressive bass line, whipping and wriggling and popping and the single Ascension (Dont Ever Wonder), co-written by Shur and originally titled XXX., Ascension sold more than a million copies, and its not hard to understand its allure: Theres the gliding economy of the groove, which seems to walk on water; the reckless falsetto run from Maxwell that opens the song; the strangely sticky lyrical construction of the hook, which swings from questioning to emphatic (Shouldnt I realize/Youre the highest of high/If you dont know, then Ill say it/So dont ever wonder); the subtle tumble of drums that precedes the chorus every so often. I was walking in like, I think youre incredibly valid. Stuart has been with Sade since before they were signed - playing guitar, playing sax and co-writing. I wasnt someone who had a lot of music around me when I was a child, really. Matthewman reflects that although nobody wanted to be the person who runs out the dud campaign, this often manifested itself as competition with everyone you were working with. About six years. Just own it. Not just people hanging out with their parents! Those steep steps, well be too old. He says, Typically, the problems people are trying to solve are the same. I like to leave what weve already done behind. And also, if we leave it ten years, well never be able to get up on the side of the stage anymore. IR a leading global provider of performance management and analytics for unified communication and collaboration, IT infrastructure, and payment ecosystems, today announced the appointment of Stuart Matthewman as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).. Marketing Technology News: Bedrock Markets Launches Digital Banner Ads - Effective Stuart brings a wealth of marketing experience and capability . Then, when I was 13 I discovered a pirate radio station that played all sorts of stuff: folk, rock, soul, everything. You have to deliver, even if youre not ready for it. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. I always see it as a compliment. Im a bit witchy; witchy woman. The song was my interpretation of what he told me. In 2014 Twin Danger signed to Decca Classics/Universal records and released[7] their eponymously titled album in spring 2015. Not everything will be perfect. L+T: Who are some artists you are interested in these days? Well, first of all its good that we stopped and didnt try to make another one off the back of the previous album. [1] With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the band Sade. Thats why hes about to unveil a brand evolution a project which received a standing ovation from the sales team at their internal/soft launch. Sade: Yesterday I was in my car. L+T: Is there anything you would change about your career? I collect ideas. We talk about the early days of Stryper, some of his childhood guitar heroes and influences, the classic days of To Hell With The Devil, his solo career, songwriting and the unique spot that Stryper inhabits in the music world in terms of music and message. Their self-titled album was released on Decca/Universal in 2015. So yeah, I think working with Stuart was actually one of the best co-writing experiences I've ever HAD - just because he works in very simple ways". We wanted to make sure that we really covered songs that werent expected as well for us to do. Sade is one of the few artists who can take a lengthy hiatus, drop an album, steal the show and take another break. Or, slightly later, when I was 14 or 15 I started listening to Billie Holiday and Miles Davis; Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain. We just do what sounds right to us at that time. I collect ideas in my head all the time. But it just didnt work. He has appeared on all of Sade's albums: Diamond Life, Promise, Stronger Than Pride, Love Deluxe, and Best of Sade, all of which went triple platinum in the U.S. and have totaled sales over 40 million albums worldwide. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. Not everything is going to work., He uses this approach with his team. helped prove that a prehip-hop R&B tradition could still be creatively and commercially viable at a time when rap was already taking over popular culture. L+T: Do you think that that preserves the organic quality of the music? You wont be sacked. Whatever book I was reading, that would become my entire life. When you make a record its so concrete, you know? You dont have all the answers. Sadness in songs is positive because it brings it out of you; it brings the sadness out. I wanted it to happen, but I was secretly afraid., Then Ascension came out, he adds, and the whole lack-of-visibility part didnt really work.. It would be easier to blame somebody else, but Im not that kind of person. And the history as well. What we were doing was programmed, but it sounded live because we allowed other instruments to breathe and play around the vocals. Its great being the only female in there, so [laughs]. So glad I found this. I had my little cassette of this album which had been mixed and mastered by Tom Coyne, who has passed away since, a genius mastering guy. Well, apart from putting a calendar in place to manage multiple public holidays happening all over the world, he knows that the answer lies in working collaboratively. A guy from the record company came in and said, Its, really beautiful, have you got drums coming in? Its not that the song makes you feel sad, the sadness is already there. Matthewman co-wrote, performed, and produced tracks on Santessa's 2000 trip-hop album Delirium released on Sony. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Sad, happy, makes you want to dance, makes you feel elated. Press J to jump to the feed. I was pretty much one of the lads, but I was an old soul even when I was a child. At that time, not many girls bought records; they were just listening to the same records as their boyfriends. In the early 1990s, Stuart Matthewman, the writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in Sade, heard a remarkable demo: a ballad that stretched out over nearly seven minutes, making room for daredevil falsetto and a bass line as elegant as a spiral staircase, building to a description of a sexual liaison so ecstatic that it lasts for days and eventually brings police to the door. Some of the songs on here are things I wanted to write about a long time ago. I guess on a big scale, Im a bit of a pessimist when I look at the world economically, where we are at this stage and how unbalanced everything is. In 1996 Matthewman composed the music the short movie 'Bajo del Perro' by LA based film makers Mike Polish and Mark Polish. Intelligent questions and a wonderful conversation. Gina Balarin speaks with IRs Stuart Matthewman. He cites his musical influences as Junior Walker, King Curtis, Art Pepper, Ernie Isley, Steve Jones, Wah Wah Watson, Issac Hayes, Bill Withers, Lee Perry, Tony Iommi, and Gustav Mahler. Cookie Notice The company. Maxwell collaborated for the first time with guitarist Hod David, who co-wrote three songs and has worked with the singer ever since. Hopefully the organisation outlives all of us; but when were here, were the people that live and breathe the brand and we need to project those brand values collectively out to our people and the rest of the world., The new brand is easier to use but, more importantly, employees believe in it. Its great. We were no threat to anybody, but it mightve been different if we had grown up in the city. The first time I listened to it I heard The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, and I was like, Wow! In fact, thats when I also heard Why Cant We Live Together for the first time. Stuart Matthewman of Sade joins Eric in conversation. You know the fans and doing such a big stage show at this time in our career and the fans being so responsive, we really didnt want to finish the tour! We were just kind of writing. I spoke to various people in the organisation who use the brand: people in the UX team, people in the culture team, solutions engineers who have to build technical documentation using our branding, salespeople who have to deal with PowerPoint slides and finding things on the internet, the product group I spoke to people far and wide, had workshops with people globally: got input from all parts of the world it has gone through many iterations to get to where we got to.. But there is, perhaps, one last surprise that Matthewman left with me: the lesson he wishes hed learned earlier. After coming back to marketing a few years later, he's now looking after a team of marketers for a global software company founded in Australia in 1988 with offices in Sydney, Denver, Washington, London, Dusseldorf and Singapore. Thank YOU Neil for listening! His most vital album, Urban Hang Suite helped prove that a prehip-hop R&B tradition could still be creatively and commercially viable at a time when rap was already taking over popular culture. And they dont even speak English! Sade: They are getting younger and older. How long does that formulation of ideas take? Its one of the key reasons I really enjoy working at IR., Matthewman is philosophical about international marketing. Its gotten to the point now that I actually like performing. Stuart is an avid cyclist, and races with New York race team RBNY. L+T: So now whats next for the band? We also learn about the next Sweet \u0026 Lynch album and hear stories behind some of the songs on the new Stryper record, Fallen.For more on Stuart, visit:http://www.sade.comhttp://www.twindanger.comFor more Pods \u0026 Sods, visit:http://www.facebook.com/podssodshttp://podsodcast.blogspot.com They released two albums, Sweetback (1996) and Stage 2 (2004).[5]. L+T: Have you noticed a change in your audience over time? He has appeared on all of Sades albums: Diamond Life, Promise, Stronger Than Pride, Love Deluxe, and Best of Sade, all of which went triple platinum in the U.S. and have totaled sales over 40 million albums worldwide. Others you have to manipulate to get what you want out of them so they can say what you want them to say. You know we just do what we do and hope that people like it. I mean, I was there on the edge, but I wasnt that into it. Sydney - March 9, 2022 - IR (ASX:IRI) a leading global provider of performance management and analytics for unified communication and collaboration, IT infrastructure, and payment ecosystems, today announced the appointment of Stuart Matthewman as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Were also measured by how well we integrate and work with sales! Matthewman believes that being in sync with your sales team, listening to them and being able to get them to engage with you is super critical. When Maxwell completed the album, it sat unreleased for nearly a year. I do think you should think about the fans but hopefully our fans will grow with us. Ive been writing songs since I was a child. And it just seemed like the right song to lead with on that album [Lovers Rock], to go with first. Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-90s and actually changed careers half way. They sat on the first album for a long time before they put it out in America.) I was in a studio apartment with one window that faced a brick wall, Maxwell remembers. L+T: Over the years with creating this Sade sound, what have you done from a production standpoint to kind of tweak the music as you continue with the times? and our Its about war and killing somebody. But we havent had anyone too scary. Some organisations focus on leads or marketing qualified leads (MQLs). But, hes also pretty punky and rocky at the same time. [6] In an interview with Pete Lewis for Blues and Soul print magazine, issue 1098, Paloma Faith discusses working with songwriters: "another person I really clicked with was Stuart Matthewman, who is Sade's co-writer. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I dont think Ive ever really known what romance is. Their work featured instrumental songs and songs with guest vocalists. I mean youd think as we get older, I guess our audience kind of grows with us. She is best known as front woman for haze-pop band Beast Patrol, noted "Band to Watch" by Rolling Stone, and the band Twin Danger, described by Jazziz magazine as "the brainchild of vocalist-pianist-guitarist Vanessa Bley and saxophonist-guitarist Stuart Mathewman, is . Sometimes the best songs come out when you discuss them less and just let them happen. There was a station called Radio Caroline. He reluctantly confides that his breakup with marketing came about partly because of his dissatisfaction with the way companies were doing it at the time. Some of the things I write down, theyll never be on a record. Sade signed with Epic Records U.K. division in 1984. Theres a bunch of YouTube clips. Maxwell then caps the first half of Urban Hang Suite with the demo that entranced Matthewman, Til the Cops Come Knockin, which had originally been written by Hod David with a bass line that reminded the singer of Motown great James Jamerson. Related Stories It was good, though, because it was a distraction. [2] In 1982, he relocated to London. A guy from the record company came in and said, Its really beautiful, have you got drums coming in? In addition to songwriting, Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. You dont partially choose, Im going to show this, but Im not going to show that. But it happens that way. I wish I could take it out on other people. Stuart: Yeah thats because its ourselves as well. Being truly fulfilled in what youre doing, and enjoying it, is important.. Stuart is also a member of bands, Sweetback and Twin Danger. And they dont even speak English! As beautifully sweet as she was wickedly talented, Sade was the anti-diva Diva. There are more licensed stations now, but when I was growing up, there werent many options. But, your songs have meant so much to so many. Maxwell collaborated for the first time with guitarist Hod David, who co-wrote three songs and has worked with the singer ever since. Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. Sure, not in the conventional sense, but the elusive artist has remained a name drop by the rap connoisseurs for ages now. It can be embarrassing when people go through your private thoughts. We travel quite a bit. And the thing about the way that we write music, the way that we do our songsis that we never set it up like, Oh we should do a ballad now or we need another up-tempo song or we should do this or that. Sade released their Bring Me Home Live 2011 DVD a short while ago, which was a homecoming of sorts for the band and their leader, having toured for the first time in a decade. You get some perspective on why youre making a record. How did he do it? Yeah. [laughs] I think now, Im less open than I used to be sometimes, because I have to protect myself. You cant run around and change it once its on vinyl. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Sometimes we can work together without any talking, and thats the best. ' Maxwell recalls. Working with Paloma Faith on her third studio album, Stuart Matthewman co-wrote two songs on her album A Perfect Contradiction released March 2014. ' (No.) I loved that song; I cant remember liking anything else I heard on standard pop radio. About. A guy from the record company said, Its from a new artist, would you meet him? I enjoyed all the answers and details. I was peddlingmusic around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. Im just a girl who likes to party. I told them I would try. Gina Balarin is founder and director of Verballistics Pty Ltd, TEDx speaker and author ofThe Secret Army: Leadership, Marketing and the Power of People. Having that local knowledge gives you something intrinsic in how you approach what youre doing. True success for us really is: are we delivering quality pipeline that results in revenue? Stuart has been with Sade since before they were signed - playing guitar, playing sax and co-writing many of the biggest hits in their 50+ million album selling career. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, record producer and musician. I guess we should start off talking about the new album, Love Deluxe. I possess a strong community focused outlook, serving as a long-term executive member of . So I think that its like oh wow! to the younger people who maybe didnt know about Sade are discovering her, which is great. What changes were they? Sade's Stuart Matthewman has revealed in a new interview with Rated R&B that the band have begun working towards a new album. Matthewman was born on 18 August 1960 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. So I mean yeah we have such a cross-section of people out there. During his teens, he picked up sax and began playing guitar. Yeahyeah. Below we countdown to Stuart Matthewman upcoming birthday. In the fall of 1992, I received a call from the Epic Records press department in New York City. It was the epitome of the English village; our family was accepted really well. The record label found the idea of starting an album in this way baffling. I know I dont get angry with anyone except myself, really. He knows that if its easier for them to use it and understand it, the brand gets used properly more often, and. Twenty-five years after his debut, the singer-songwriter-producer and key collaborators look back on an album that proved R&B tradition could still thrive in a hip-hop world. Maxwell enlisted other pros with enviable track records as well: David Gamson, a former member of Scritti Politti who had also produced for Chaka Khan and Sheila E.; Mike Pela, who produced and engineered for Sade and Fine Young Cannibals; and Itaal Shur, who would go on to mint money by co-writing Santanas gargantuan hit Smooth., The first half of Urban Hang Suite is springy and suave. What I could immediately grasp, I took in. Our mission is simple: help marketers excel. But those two albums are really separate endeavors; Maxwells music is airier and often more dance-floor friendly, pushing past the 95 b.p.m. Whats your favorite song on Love Deluxe? L+T: Have you encountered any crazed Sade fans? L+T: Have you encountered any crazed Sade fans? From the first day we moved into the house, I was making friends; no one ever brought up my color. Theres not much else I would change-the mistakes Ive made have made me grow braver. It was amazing. Its funny, most of the songs I cant tell you if I really like them or not; its really hard to be objective about it. Stuart Matthewman is a British musician who was first part of the band 'Pride' in the early 80s before working with Sade in 1984. Recently, Stuart teamed up with singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vanessa Bley, daughter of Jazz legend Paul Bley, to form the band,Twin Danger, resultingina unique sound described as "The love child of heroin jazz and seductive darkness. 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