We never think about the record company, we never think about friends or fans, we never think about radio. When I was ten, I quite remember liking Maggie May, but that was it. But today in the B2B space its more about educating people. Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-'90s and actually changed careers half way. We like the same kinds of music, blues and soul. , the singers debut, which turns 25 this week; Maxwell is honoring the birthday with a reissue and a performance at the NAACP Image Awards. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. She likes to put out art. He is known for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Sea of Love (1989) and Spanglish (2004). I tended not to venture into the stuff that I didnt understand. I was walking in like, I think youre incredibly valid. I dont think Ive ever really known what romance is. L+T: So now whats next for the band? Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. Solo transcription.Transcription sheet you will find on http://solojunkie.wix.com/solojunkie About. He knows that if its easier for them to use it and understand it, the brand gets used properly more often, and. Its been eight years now, and Sade still hasnt fully emerged from her music slumber to bless us with a new full-length album. He says, That often led to people fudging results or trying to put gloss on campaigns where they probably could have taken learnings out of things where they didnt work or try to understand why they didnt work, instead.. Varese Sarabande : A 30th Anniversary Celebration (A Chronicle Of Great Film Music 2003-2008) [omnibus, ost] (2016) by Various Artists () on maniadb.com ' 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. 'Urban Hang Suite' Left Him No Choice", "How Maxwell Captured the Sounds of Timeless Soul on 'Urban Hang Suite': 25 Years Later", "Driver in Fatal 154 Crash Was a Ticking Time Bomb", Stuart Matthewman Career Retrospective Interview from August 2015 with Pods & Sods, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart_Matthewman&oldid=1139495855, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 12:40. He is the assistant editor. INTERVIEW: Stuart Matthewman and Vanessa Bley are Twin Danger | The Couch Sessions INTERVIEW: Stuart Matthewman and Vanessa Bley are Twin Danger July 9, 2014 by adamascarnegie The past two decades have seen an increase in musical collaborations with artists from seemingly opposing genres. Weve managed to get that right. Sade: Well, my passion for music has never waned. Talk a little about performing with the group. You have to deliver, even if youre not ready for it. Not everything will be perfect. I kept moving my foot, but it wouldnt budge. 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. His niche is seasoned R&B acts, along with radio stats on urban and R&B formats. The band features instrumental songs and songs with guest vocalists. [1] With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the band Sade. He doesnt put in so much when were composing; its more Andrew and Stuart. They have released two albums, Sweetback (1996) and Stage 2 (2004). Required fields are marked *. In speaking with Sade Adu and Stuart Matthewman, Life+Times learned a lot about what makes this legendary outfit tick. But no I mean yeah, the audience has always been really appreciative and very vocal with it. I had these stiletto heels on and when I walked up to the microphone, my shoe got stuck in one of the planks. We were working on Love Deluxe for about four months, physically making it. I was so engrossed in the process of reading. Thank you Eric. In 1996 Matthewman along with Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman formed the studio band Sweetback. Maxwell's Waiting Game: R&B Hitmaker Talks Loyalty, Longevity You need to work as a team. In addition to songwriting, Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. 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. So He Built His Own, A Breath of Fresh Air: How Giveon Became R&Bs King of Warmth, It Started as a College Project. Then we feel were completely cut off and we could just get on with doing what we do. ', 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.. It opens with The Urban Theme, a vocal-less funk workout that bleeds wah-wah guitar; the track is reprised later on the album in slightly different form, a trick that Gaye used twice on, . The 100 Best Albums of 2022, The fact that Maxwell felt like an outsider may have made it easier for him to turn away from the dominant mode of the time. So, however long it takes; sometimes the songs come really quickly, they just fall into place. L+T: Who are some artists you are interested in these days? 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. But, individually, as far as people are concerned, Im an optimist, because I believe theres a lot of good in people. 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 About. ', 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 like, Thats the point it starts with an instrumental and ends with a slow version of the same instrumental. L+T: Have you noticed a change in your audience over time? La French Radio Portugal : Ne le 16 janvier 1959 au Nigeria, dans le village d'Ibadan, la jeune Helen F 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. 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 . We travel quite a bit. I think its really quite deep, but at the same time its a love song. I saw in the media how people are mocked and destroyed I didnt have that kind of thick skin., Maxwell assembled an unusual group of musicians: not just Matthewman, who recalls that the singer was very enamored with the Sade album, 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, Those were just a few elements of what the singer describes as a smorgasbord of cultures flowing into, . But we havent had anyone too scary. 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. In its 52nd year, Last updated: Feb. 22, 2023 Of the many things to look forward to in the year ahead a new Sade Adu and Teddy Riley to Be Inducted Into Songwriters Hall of Fame, Spotify Announces R&B First Nights Concert Series, Ari Lennox Bares All at The Fillmore Charlotte: Concert Review, 6LACKs New Song Since I Have a Lover Feels Good. I always do that, start talking about something else. When Van Den Bossche stopped by to visit Matthewman later, he brought the singer as well. 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. My father is totally into music and surrounds himself with music, but I didnt grow up with him. 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. I mean, I was there on the edge, but I wasnt that into it. I know I dont get angry with anyone except myself, really. In the years since Urban Hang Suite was released, its frequently been name-checked, along with DAngelos Brown Sugar (1995) and Erykah Badus Baduizm (1997), as a foundational album for the neo-soul movement. That and we all listen to a lot of music. Theres one that we found out about. While Urban Hang Suite is dashing and assured, its creator was profoundly ambivalent about his place in the music industry at the time. 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? What changes were they? Intelligent questions and a wonderful conversation. Try to find people who help you. L+T: How do you feel working with Hip-Hop artists or being sampled by them affected your music/career? He says, Its important to distil your message down to something that relates back to your companys purpose, translates across different markets and is the core of what you do, but allows the nuance to be added in specific markets. How does he do that? Soul Woman. L+T: When you finished recording By Your Side, did you have any idea that it was going to be so gigantic? L+T: When you finished recording By Your Side, did you have any idea that it was going to be so gigantic? Its not that the song makes you feel sad, the sadness is already there. Today, I might look after demand gen but it doesnt mean that the person looking after content, social, digital marketing dont have input. Maybe Stuart [Matthewman] or Andrew [Hale] will come from a bassline and then we build on that. I was pretty much one of the lads, but I was an old soul even when I was a child. Unsurprisingly, as head of marcomms, a lot of his answers have to do with good communication. In the early Nineties, a young Maxwell was enraptured by, music around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. We all had so much fun. 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. Everything changed around. Then, when I was 13 I discovered a pirate radio station that played all sorts of stuff: folk, rock, soul, everything. These guys had a band, but their singer had left. He says, Typically, the problems people are trying to solve are the same. I think they were a little confused at first. [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). 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. Its about how people in different regions like to be communicated to, learn and educate themselves that impacts marketing.. I would have asked JAY Z to rap on Soldier Of Love in 2010. 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. You know like the smooth jazz stations and the R&B stations werent quite sure at first but soon, once the actual fans and people actually just liked it for what it was, they kind of had to play it really by demand. Someone sprayed or wrote on top of it, Bitch sings when she wants to. Sade loved it.. I just like it. What we were doing was programmed, but it sounded live because we allowed other instruments to breathe and play around the vocals. L+T: Have you encountered any crazed Sade fans? 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. Others you have to manipulate to get what you want out of them so they can say what you want them to say. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. ' (No.) We dont consciously say I want this song to sound like that one, but it creeps in there. Joining Latin funk band Pride, he met singer-songwriter Sade Adu and they began writing songs together. Fair Play with Stuart Matthewman 11,735 views Aug 9, 2015 Filmmaker Clive Williams hangs out with music artist / producer Stuart Matthewman (Twin Danger /Sade) to discuss Stuart's. Trivia (1) Is the saxophonist and guitarist of 80s-present pop group Sade. Its heavy, just the whole experience. 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.. I wasnt someone who had a lot of music around me when I was a child, really. L+T: How do you feel working with Hip-Hop artists or being sampled by them affected your music/career? Antwane joined Rated R&B in January 2013 after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Those steep steps, well be too old. Sure, not in the conventional sense, but the elusive artist has remained a name drop by the rap connoisseurs for ages now. But everything was very programmed-sounding, Matthewman explains. He just wears like latex dresses and hell film himself getting ready for the concert like putting on these dresses at home and then kind of films himself arriving at the concert and then hell film himself at the concert. Not everything is going to work., He uses this approach with his team. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, record producer and musician. There are the fans of course, the always organic no-formula formula, and how a little Drake goes a long way to brighten Sades day. 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. Theres not much else I would change-the mistakes Ive made have made me grow braver. 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. 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. Sade: Yesterday I was in my car. The following week, Perry escorted me to Sades midtown hotel suite overlooking 6th Avenue. What I like personally when I listen to other peoples music is when the music makes you feel something. Chipboard we called it. 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. Yes we speak English a kind of English compared to the Americans. Weve got some various bits and pieces to do individually and then well get back together again. The song was my interpretation of what he told me. As Matthewman says, If youre looking at truly business-changing programs not just focused on lead gen but on enabling the business thats truly a successful marketing team. Some of the songs on here are things I wanted to write about a long time ago. 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. But, your songs have meant so much to so many. 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. 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. No one was doing crazy smooth-jazz solos.. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. I hate that Im so hard on myself, really. I had an older brother who was always very protective of me. The two men ended up working together on multiple tracks that appeared on Maxwells Urban Hang Suite, the singers debut, which turns 25 this week; Maxwell is honoring the birthday with a reissue and a performance at the NAACP Image Awards. thank you for posting. But he believes that his bosses back then would have been supportive of the lessons that working for a software company has taught him now: to fail fast and fix problems, if only hed been more open to making mistakes and learning from them. I would think after all these years, you guys must have a pretty tight relationship. Sometimes we can work together without any talking, and thats the best. Our mission is simple: help marketers excel. Its quite a responsibility. You know, theyve kind of grown older but theres a lot of younger people in the audience this time as well. There is always a new story to tell. We wanted to make sure that we really covered songs that werent expected as well for us to do. ', Those were just a few elements of what the singer describes as a smorgasbord of cultures flowing into Urban Hang Suite. And the history as well. In 1996 Matthewman composed the music the short movie 'Bajo del Perro' by LA based film makers Mike Polish and Mark Polish. It depends on each song, really, how it comes to be. Interview: Sade Michael A. Gonzales reaches into his archives for an interview with the singer from 1992 In the fall of 1992, I received a call from the Epic Records press department in New York City. Matthewman has discussed diverse musical influences including Junior Walker, King Curtis, Art Pepper, Ernie Isley, Steve Jones, Wah Wah Watson, Issac Hayes, Bill Withers, Lee Perry, Tony Iommi and Gustav Mahler.[12]. I guess we should start off talking about the new album, Love Deluxe. No, not really, but we are influenced by it. I was peddlingmusic around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. Im sure people tell you that. So, that got me interested and I started collecting albums. He has composed the soundtracks for the movies: Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot, Northfork, The Double (short subject), The Astronaut Farmer and Life Support. We do have those metrics at IR, but we largely use them as leading indicators. ' Maxwell recalls. Using the pseudonym Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album, X Amounts of Niceness in 2010 [1] and produced remixes for artists. I grew up on a council estate in a village. [2] In 1982, he relocated to London. 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. One in particular was Like a Tattoo. That song is about a man who has been in Vietnam, but its not really about Vietnam. Theres a bunch of YouTube clips. Were a lot of things, but when youre singing, when youre presenting yourself, you dont give everything away. When did you first became interested in music and thought it was something that you could do professionally? is dashing and assured, its creator was profoundly ambivalent about his place in the music industry at the time. I travel with it and sometimes I look around and cant find it. I listened to Drakes Take Care and Alison Krauss Forget About It. Stuart: Oh yeah, absolutely. . [1] With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the band Sade. He went on to compose the music scores for various films;[10] with Maxwell the music for the short film To Be A Black Man (1997), and Twin Falls Idaho (1999)[11], Jackpot (2001), Northfork (2003), The Double (2005), The Astronaut Farmer (2006), Life Support (2007), The Smell Of Success (2009), Nona(2017), and short Erotic Dreams of the Chelsea Hotel (2017). Good questions. A guy from the record company came in and said, Its, really beautiful, have you got drums coming in? 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. Its great being the only female in there, so [laughs]. 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. and our Well, first of all its good that we stopped and didnt try to make another one off the back of the previous album. Sade's Stuart Matthewman has revealed in a new interview with Rated R&B that the band have begun working towards a new album. Stuart: I think our formula is the fact that we dont really have a formula. The song just makes you recognize it. But, rather than putting a flash new design out there, Matthewmans brand refresh has taken the form of spending a lot of time with people in his organisation talking about what the IR brand means to them. Just own it. Working with Paloma Faith on her third studio album, Stuart Matthewman co-wrote two songs on her album A Perfect Contradiction released March 2014. During his teens, he picked up sax and began playing guitar. From the first day we moved into the house, I was making friends; no one ever brought up my color. 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. But we kind of had to, you know, to do events and various things. I was like, Its amazing, but it sounds like its already done. You cant run around and change it once its on vinyl. I like to leave what weve already done behind. I didnt like his more rocky stage; I wasnt so keen on that. Yeah, I have a little notebook, but Im always losing it as well; mislaying it. Whats your favorite song on Love Deluxe? 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. ' (No.) Its one of the key reasons I really enjoy working at IR., Matthewman is philosophical about international marketing. Stuart Matthewman is also known as. Stuart Matthewman | Press Stuart Matthewman Collaboration with MaxwelL In this interview, R&B singer Maxwell discusses his latest album and collaboration with Stuart. You have this guitar kind of squeaky sound, and it was also a little bit more country than what weve done, it wasnt kind of necessarily R&B. Maxwell collaborated for the first time with guitarist Hod David, who co-wrote three songs and has worked with the singer ever since. 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". Some organisations focus on leads or marketing qualified leads (MQLs). Success for me is defined as how fulfilled I am, he says, the work Im doing and the impact Im having in my organisation. Stuart: No! How do you help a global marketing team manage that? The record company knows theres no point in nagging us or giving us deadlines. As Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album. And obviously over the years our tastes have grown and we just try different things. You know were open for anything. I mean it sounded very different from what we usually did. (Ive experienced that before with Sade when theyre scared of putting things out, Matthewman says sympathetically. Running a global content team is always a business challenge. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time He and I both agree that back in the day marketers saw each other as competitors. is more subdued, a series of Quiet Storm ballads. The second half of Urban Hang Suite is more subdued, a series of Quiet Storm ballads. So whether thats the Promise album that was maybe more, a little bit more jazz-tinged. Thank YOU Neil for listening! Yes, I have. Stuart: Well we have very odd ones. I mean it was so rewarding doing the tour. Hours. Stuart: Yeah thats because its ourselves as well. 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. Last edited on 15 February 2023, at 12:40, "Maxwell Wasn't Sure He Wanted to Be a Star. But we had no idea if people were going to get it or not. I was a 22-year-old kid flying to meet guys who were 50, 60 years old, Maxwell says. Having that local knowledge gives you something intrinsic in how you approach what youre doing. Stuart is an avid cyclist, and races with New York race team RBNY. We just do what sounds right to us at that time. Indeed, the world was waiting. Its not an incredibly professional way of working, the way that we work, so its always going to come out a little quirky. 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