I dont think Ive ever really known what romance is. The lead A&R was like, Whats the deal with the instrumental? When I got to be about 13, I started listening to pirate stations and that really did change my life, because I wasnt that interested in the pop stations. I travel with it and sometimes I look around and cant find it. A true player of many musical instruments and amazing writer. I loved that song; I cant remember liking anything else I heard on standard pop radio. Do they think youre some kind of sad poet walking around dressed in all black? They played really good music, basically. With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the English band Sade. Not just people hanging out with their parents! The company. I didnt like his more rocky stage; I wasnt so keen on that. Their self-titled album was released on Decca/Universal in 2015. Can you talk a little about you and the band working on this album after not being in the studio for a few years? Yeah, I think so, but thats only because they see one level. Its not that the song makes you feel sad, the sadness is already there. L+T: What still keeps you so passionate about making music? Finally, he recommends open and honest communication. I mean, I was there on the edge, but I wasnt that into it. When Van Den Bossche stopped by to visit Matthewman later, he brought the singer as well. Stuart Matthewman will celebrate 63rd birthday on a Friday 18th of August 2023. I dont think I was, you know. The second half of Urban Hang Suite is more subdued, a series of Quiet Storm ballads. It may be a bit more subdued with this tour, I mean from the very first date we did in Francethey just went insane! What we were doing was programmed, but it sounded live because we allowed other instruments to breathe and play around the vocals. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. I think people do think of me as this depressed person crying in my ivory tower. Late for sound check, late to get ready Thats my defense. There was a station called Radio Caroline. So the way that we did that instead of just playing the songs we really wanted to do it visually so we wanted every song or every couple of songs to have its own visual theme. He believes that how marketers measure success has also shifted over the last few years, and his organisation is a great example of this. 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, Sade's inception in 1983, releasing ten albums and collecting four Grammy awards along the way. Matthewman says, Its important for people to understand that the brand isnt a logo or PowerPoint template thats meant to stifle your creativity but the brand is who we are intrinsically. I mean often we dont start probably working or writing until at least after one oclock in the morning, because at that time your phones will stop. I think people do think of me as this depressed person crying in my ivory tower. Stuart: I think our formula is the fact that we dont really have a formula. 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. [8] Vanessa Bley was killed in a car crash on 25 October 2019 in California.[9]. When I asked Matthewman what he would do differently in marketing if he could do things over again, the answer lay in not underestimating the importance of branding, a failing he has been working to rectify over the last six to eight months. Theyve been friends and worked together since the beginning of our careers. 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, Sade's inception in 1983, releasing ten albums and collecting four Grammy awards along the way. No matter where people are, regardless of whether someones thirsty or trying to deploy new technology, their problems are largely the same. Although Im proud of them, it was the most that we could do at that time; at that moment in time, we did our best. We dont consciously say I want this song to sound like that one, but it creeps in there. According to Matthewman, Sade Adu and company have already written . 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. But we havent had anyone too scary. Like most of the young men Id known in the 80s from soul boys to b-boys Id fallen in love with Sade upon the release of her multiplatinum first album Diamond Life in 1984. Of course, I replied, her pretty face and haunting voice drifting through my mind. Its not an incredibly professional way of working, the way that we work, so its always going to come out a little quirky. And also, if we leave it ten years, well never be able to get up on the side of the stage anymore. 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. 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. I think the general consensus is we cant possibly leave it that long next time. Whenever Wherever Whatever, a drum-less Matthewman co-write that sets Maxwell against tense acoustic guitar, is the sets most blatant Sade homage. Sure, not in the conventional sense, but the elusive artist has remained a name drop by the rap connoisseurs for ages now. 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. Popular As: Stuart Matthewman: Occupation: Rock Stars: Age: 60 years old: Zodiac Sign: Leo: Born: August 18, 1960 (United Kingdom) Birthday: August 18: Im sure a lot of people hate me because of that, theyre like, Yeah, that bitch, Sade, I hate her. [laughs]. Something will come over me and Ill suddenly realize I hadnt seen it lately. Stuart Matthewman was born on August 18, 1960 in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. Not everything is going to work., He uses this approach with his team. I mean theyre not like, dangerous. Indeed, the world was waiting. We had the rises so the band could come up and down on, which meant that we could leave Sade completely on her own on an empty stage with no equipment, no drums, no amplifications, no monitors, anything to sing songs like Pearls or Morning Bird. So very early on when we were thinking of the idea of the tour, we wanted to be able to make it a little bit more theatrical, but as in the sets and using screens and curtains and the lighting. You spend a lot of your life at work. Stuart Matthewman is a British musician who was first part of the band 'Pride' in the early 80s before working with Sade in 1984. 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. Stuart was also a member of the group Twin Danger, formed in 2011 with singer/writer Vanessa Bley, daughter of late jazz pianist Paul Bley and pioneer video artist Carol Goss. Its been eight years now, and Sade still hasnt fully emerged from her music slumber to bless us with a new full-length album. I wanted the cover to not be my face, Maxwell says. In addition, the bass-heavy rhythmic engine for DAngelo and Badu was hip-hop both their debuts were co-produced in parts by Bob Power, who helped mix and engineer A Tribe Called Quests The Low End Theory. For more information, please see our There are just certain things that I really love and I can understand. Matthewman reflects that as a young marketer he was very afraid of making a mistake or a campaign not working. After coming back to marketing a few years later, hes 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. L+T: Do you think that that preserves the organic quality of the music? Press J to jump to the feed. And they dont even speak English! Or Love Deluxe, which was maybe more R&B. It was an Irish bar on 14th Street. As an international marketer, Matthewman works with a team around the world who need to collaborate closely but also be able to work independently to produce marketing campaigns that make sense for their local market. ', Those were just a few elements of what the singer describes as a smorgasbord of cultures flowing into Urban Hang Suite. We never think about the record company, we never think about friends or fans, we never think about radio. I think if we tried to a hip-hop track or a pop track or an R&B track or whatever it was, it would sound forced. You know, theyve kind of grown older but theres a lot of younger people in the audience this time as well. As Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album,X Amounts Of Niceness(2010) and produced remixes for artists: Janet Jackson, Gregory Isaacs, and The Isley Brothers. Teaming with bassist Paul S. Denman and keyboardist Andrew Hale, they formed the band Sade. 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. You just try to make a record that you like, that you would buy yourself. In 1996 Matthewman along with Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman formed the studio band Sweetback. But, hes also pretty punky and rocky at the same time. Sade: If I could turn back time? Its great; its this guy from Germany, who I guess hes a cross-dresser. We have no rules in the studio so anyone is, you know, always open to try anything. Stuart: Yeah thats because its ourselves as well. Are you a perfectionist when it comes to your music? That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. L+T: Is there anything you would change about your career? $4 Million Stuart Matthewman net worth: Stuart Matthewman is an English songwriter, musician, and record producer who has a net worth of $4 million. But it always ends up kind of sounding like us anyway. Whether its messing with guitar or reggae bass line or some strange keyboard thing that Andrew might do or snare drums on a song that Sade might want to try. Its one of the key reasons I really enjoy working at IR., Matthewman is philosophical about international marketing. These guys had a band, but their singer had left. That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. We just do what sounds right to us at that time. I think its really quite deep, but at the same time its a love song. At that time, not many girls bought records; they were just listening to the same records as their boyfriends. Stuart: Well we absolutely loved doing the tour. 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? About. It depends on each song, really, how it comes to be. If I had to pick one it would be Cherish the Day, but I dont know why. I love what punk did for the music industry, particularly since it gave everybody different ideas of what the music business could be. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, record producer and musician. Sadness in songs is positive because it brings it out of you; it brings the sadness out. Neither is it surprising that he has helped turn the organisation around from being inward-focused to being an enabler of people by producing marketing that helps prospects solve their problems or that their revenue has tripled in the last five years. But there is, perhaps, one last surprise that Matthewman left with me: the lesson he wishes hed learned earlier. At IR, our corporate campaigns are developed here on a global level but we rely heavily on our colleagues in the regions to run those programs. [1] With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the band Sade. All Rights reserved. http://traffic.libsyn.com/podsodcast/2015-08-18T17_13_14-07_00.mp3, Follow THE PODS & SODS NETWORK on WordPress.com. You need to work as a team. L+T: Is there anything you would change about your career? is more subdued, a series of Quiet Storm ballads. He is known for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Sea of Love (1989) and Spanglish (2004). Some of the things I write down, theyll never be on a record. re-igniting peoples passion, internally, for the brand, and the role employees play in making sure that the brand values are presented outwardly and consistently. As Matthewman puts it, When you live and work somewhere, you understand the nuances between the people in different cities and states. SYDNEY, March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IR (ASX:IRI) a leading global provider of performance management and analytics for unified communication and collaboration, IT infrastructure, and payment. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Maxwell then caps the first half of. Working with Paloma Faith on her third studio album, Stuart Matthewman co-wrote two songs on her album A Perfect Contradiction released March 2014. Stuart: Almost like watching a theater production or an opera or something where you can just completely change the stage. L+T: How do you feel working with Hip-Hop artists or being sampled by them affected your music/career? I possess a strong community focused outlook, serving as a long-term executive member of . From the first day we moved into the house, I was making friends; no one ever brought up my color. Some of the songs on here are things I wanted to write about a long time ago. I always see it as a compliment. Its gotten to the point now that I actually like performing. Sade's Stuart Matthewman has revealed in a new interview with Rated R&B that the band have begun working towards a new album. ' Not long after, Karl Van Den Bossche, a percussionist who also worked with Sade, came through New York to do sessions with the young man behind the demo: A then-unknown Brooklyn native named Maxwell. Sade: This time we wanted to do something more theatrical and take the audience somewhere unexpected. Weve got some various bits and pieces to do individually and then well get back together again. L+T: What still keeps you so passionate about making music? Stuart is also a member of Sweetback, and was one half of Twin Danger. Its great. Even your organisation doesnt. I know theyre out there but are there any that are kind of over the top? I would think after all these years, you guys must have a pretty tight relationship. Life+Times: What do you aim to do differently with your live sets each time you tour? And this time, you know like our fans have grown with us. ' (No.) You dont have all the answers. They released two albums, Sweetback (1996) and Stage 2 (2004).[5]. What I could immediately grasp, I took in. Daughter of late jazz pianist Paul Bley and pioneer video artist Carol Goss, Vanessa Bley was born in 1985 in Miami, Florida. In 1996 Matthewman along with Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman formed the studio band Sweetback. thank you for posting. [3] Matthewman co-produced, co-wrote, and played saxophone and guitar on Maxwell's albums: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (Columbia, 1996),[4] Embrya (Columbia, 1998), Now (Columbia, 2001) and blackSUMMERS'night (Columbia, 2016). So I mean yeah we have such a cross-section of people out there. Tradues em contexto de "Bassist Paul" en ingls-portugus da Reverso Context : It is the first album released by the band since late bassist Paul Gray's death in 2010. I would have asked JAY Z to rap on Soldier Of Love in 2010. Yeah. Not everything will be perfect. 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. 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. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. A lot of the results Matthewman has seen at IR relate to how he defines success, both in life and in marketing. Sade: I dont want to be a one trick pony. The more input you get from smart people, the more success youll have.. He has composed the soundtracks for the movies: Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot, Northfork, The Double (short subject), The Astronaut Farmer and Life Support. 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. During his teens, he picked up sax and began playing guitar. And the history as well. But we had no idea if people were going to get it or not. That and we all listen to a lot of music. L+T: Have you noticed a change in your audience over time? Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. L+T: Its hard not to, right? How long does that formulation of ideas take? Whenever Wherever Whatever, a drum-less Matthewman co-write that sets Maxwell against tense acoustic guitar, is the sets most blatant Sade homage. Ive always been like that. I collect ideas in my head all the time. 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. When were happy, then well let everyone else hear it., Like his comment in a previous interview with Rated R&B, It might sound funny but we write and do music to please ourselves and just hope that [we] have good taste and other people will like it.. One in particular was Like a Tattoo. That song is about a man who has been in Vietnam, but its not really about Vietnam. I was pretty much one of the lads, but I was an old soul even when I was a child. I was quite deprived of music, because my mom wasnt particularly into music. Im a bit witchy; witchy woman. 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 . The things that most depress you are often the things that you write about. We know what to expect from each other and how to deal with each other as well. But, Cherish the Day, I know if I heard it on the radio I would say, God, this is good. Seconds. That was very much Sophie [Muller] and Sade together. L+T: Do you think that that preserves the organic quality of the music? When I was ten, I quite remember liking Maggie May, but that was it. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. But it just didnt work. , produces software that helps large enterprises monitor, manage and troubleshoot their critical networks and systems. That would come up a lot inside of myself and of course from people when I was trying to do what I was trying to do., Editors picks Yes we speak English a kind of English compared to the Americans. I grew up on a council estate in a village. Talk a little about performing with the group. Basically I found him very easy to work with because to me he is really like a beautiful facilitator. I was peddlingmusic around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. 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. 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. While Urban Hang Suite is dashing and assured, its creator was profoundly ambivalent about his place in the music industry at the time. I do think you should think about the fans but hopefully our fans will grow with us. Sade: I love when our music is reclaimed to make something new. The record label found the idea of starting an album in this way baffling. I wasnt really a Rod Stewart fan, but that one song. The song just makes you recognize it. 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! Then we feel were completely cut off and we could just get on with doing what we do. True success for us really is: are we delivering quality pipeline that results in revenue? The song was my interpretation of what he told me. Soul Woman. Maxwell's Waiting Game: R&B Hitmaker Talks Loyalty, Longevity The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time It was a good day. The internet and content have had a huge part to play in this you have to be up front about how youre educating people and helping them with a buying decision. Using the pseudonym Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album, X Amounts of Niceness in 2010 [1] and produced remixes for artists. I wasnt so sure that I really wanted to be in the front. We wanted to make sure that we really covered songs that werent expected as well for us to do. A guy from the record company said, Its from a new artist, would you meet him? Hours. ', 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.. In 2018, Stuart Matthewman, a famed British musician and longtime bandmate of the Grammy-winning group Sade, exclusively revealed to Rated R&B that the legendary band was "working on a new album." . 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.. I wasnt so sure that I really wanted to be in the front. Along with her constant mates Stuart Matthewman (guitars and sax), Andrew Hale (keyboards) and Paul S. Denman (bass), this would be the groups first album since 1988s Stronger Than Pride. I know theyre out there but are there any that are kind of over the top? The greats Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and Sly Stone. Try to find people who help you. Even more unusual was that she had two black kids and the village was pure white as the driven snow. Stuart: Exactly, yeah! We were just kind of writing. He doesnt put in so much when were composing; its more Andrew and Stuart. For all intents and purposes, they thought the industry was done with them. Related Stories Sade signed with Epic Records U.K. division in 1984. You mentioned Stuart Matthewman and Andrew Hale before, but what is your relationship like with bassist Paul Denman? While other artists are content with releasing music more frequently to remain in the limelight, Matthewman says, [Sades] not interested in the fame or any of that [other] stuff. [pause] But, we were talking about Paul. Maxwell assembled an unusual group of musicians: not just Matthewman, who recalls that the singer was very enamored with the Sade album Love Deluxe at the time, but also Leon Ware the singer-songwriter-producer, who, in one of the most outrageous acts of generosity in music history, donated a planned 1975 solo album to Marvin Gaye, resulting in the singers I Want You LP and Wah Wah Watson, a guitarist whose rsum included Gayes Lets Get It On and Michael Jacksons Off the Wall. Sade & Stuart Matthewman Discuss Music, Hip-Hop and Longevity. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Yeah. 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. 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