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. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. So, the picture someone has of you is never completely true. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. We were just kind of writing. We dont always agree, but I always get my way. 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. And it just seemed like the right song to lead with on that album [Lovers Rock], to go with first. 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? Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-'90s and actually changed careers half way. Matthewman reflects that as a young marketer he was very afraid of making a mistake or a campaign not working. I was pretty much one of the lads, but I was an old soul even when I was a child. I know theyre out there but are there any that are kind of over the top? Its almost unreal; almost magical. If someone tries to say, It wasnt my fault, call that out. Stuart Matthewman | Press Stuart Matthewman Collaboration with MaxwelL In this interview, R&B singer Maxwell discusses his latest album and collaboration with Stuart. Success for me is defined as how fulfilled I am, he says, the work Im doing and the impact Im having in my organisation. See also. So He Built His Own, A Breath of Fresh Air: How Giveon Became R&Bs King of Warmth, It Started as a College Project. In 1996 Matthewman along with Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman formed the studio band Sweetback. Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-90s and actually changed careers half way. 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. We carry a pipeline and a revenue target. Yeahyeah. You dont have all the answers. Intelligent questions and a wonderful conversation. All Rights reserved. 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, . Its great; its this guy from Germany, who I guess hes a cross-dresser. Even your organisation doesnt. Did you start listening to jazz at that time? In 1996 Matthewman composed the music the short movie 'Bajo del Perro' by LA based film makers Mike Polish and Mark Polish. He is known for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Sea of Love (1989) and Spanglish (2004). The following week, Perry escorted me to Sades midtown hotel suite overlooking 6th Avenue. But, individually, as far as people are concerned, Im an optimist, because I believe theres a lot of good in people. It may be a bit more subdued with this tour, I mean from the very first date we did in Francethey just went insane! 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 . I know I dont get angry with anyone except myself, really. Well, first of all its good that we stopped and didnt try to make another one off the back of the previous album. Maxwell collaborated for the first time with guitarist Hod David, who co-wrote three songs and has worked with the singer ever since. 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. 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. Stuart: Oh yeah, absolutely. . 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. Being a musician and fans of music, were obviously influenced by whats going on, but we never make a conscious decision to go oh we should do a track with more hip-hop or we should do a track thats kind of more reggae. We just do what we do and it comes out in some way. What I like personally when I listen to other peoples music is when the music makes you feel something. Sadness in songs is positive because it brings it out of you; it brings the sadness out. They released two albums, Sweetback (1996) and Stage 2 (2004).[5]. (The Roots also helped out extensively on Baduizm.) Theres not much else I would change-the mistakes Ive made have made me grow braver. I saw in the media how people are mocked and destroyed I didnt have that kind of thick skin., He also worried that he wasnt supposed to make the type of R&B he loved. Im sure people tell you that. Chipboard we called it. You know what I mean? It liberated the industry and gave people a lot of opportunities. Matthewman co-wrote, performed, and produced tracks on Santessa's 2000 trip-hop album Delirium released on Sony. Its not an incredibly professional way of working, the way that we work, so its always going to come out a little quirky. Trivia (1) Is the saxophonist and guitarist of 80s-present pop group Sade. Everything changed around. The song was my interpretation of what he told me. Back in the day, marketing was about positioning things so they seemed better than they really were, says Matthewman. In 1995, percussionist Karl Vanden Bossche introduced Matthewman to then unknown singer Maxwell. 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. L+T: When you finished recording By Your Side, did you have any idea that it was going to be so gigantic? I wanted the cover to not be my face, Maxwell says. [1] With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the band Sade. ', Those were just a few elements of what the singer describes as a smorgasbord of cultures flowing into Urban Hang Suite. Sometimes we can work together without any talking, and thats the best. 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. You just try to make a record that you like, that you would buy yourself. Years ago, I think it was when By Your Side, the song came out, and big posters were stuck around New York. Do you remember the first time you played live? 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]. You cant run around and change it once its on vinyl. How did he do it? I am an entrepreneurial, customer-centric and results focused marketing and consulting professional with extensive experience across diverse industries. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time How they try to learn and educate themselves about that problem is where the nuances come in. And thats why we decided to have a completely empty stage. L+T: When you finished recording By Your Side, did you have any idea that it was going to be so gigantic? 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. L+T: Is there anything you would change about your career? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts I know that sounds a bit odd. [2] In 1982, he relocated to London. 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. 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. So, however long it takes; sometimes the songs come really quickly, they just fall into place. A true player of many musical instruments and amazing writer. You wont be in trouble. It doesnt really help the process, he says. His most vital album. 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. 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 think they were a little confused at first. 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. L+T: Do you think that that preserves the organic quality of the music? Whenever Wherever Whatever, a drum-less Matthewman co-write that sets Maxwell against tense acoustic guitar, is the sets most blatant Sade homage. Those steep steps, well be too old. And this time, you know like our fans have grown with us. For all intents and purposes, they thought the industry was done with them. Hours. The early-Nineties airwaves were packed with fusions of rap and R&B: the whiplash-inducing pleasures of New Jack Swing, followed by sample-driven hip-hop soul, which made cross-genre collaborations commonplace. The things that most depress you are often the things that you write about. Stuart Matthewman will celebrate 63rd birthday on a Friday 18th of August 2023. 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. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Do they think youre some kind of sad poet walking around dressed in all black? What changes were they? Two hearts beating as one. But we pretty much approached the album in the way that we always do. L+T: Amazing! Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, record producer and musician. The song just makes you recognize it. Stuart Matthewman: We knew that we were going to have to play a lot of the old songs but we didnt want to make it into like a Greatest Hits Tour or anything like that. Sade: Well, my passion for music has never waned. 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. By Michael A. Gonzales on July 17, 2015, Interview: Wen on Forgotten Female Grime MCs and Gothic Architecture, Dancehalls Assassin on Maintaining the Genres Resurgence in Mainstream Sounds. Thank you Eric. He is the assistant editor. He has composed the soundtracks for the movies: Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot, Northfork, The Double (short subject), The Astronaut Farmer and Life Support. We never think about the record company, we never think about friends or fans, we never think about radio. That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. 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. Theres a bunch of YouTube clips. '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 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. 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. Can you talk a little about you and the band working on this album after not being in the studio for a few years? Then we feel were completely cut off and we could just get on with doing what we do. Im a bit witchy; witchy woman. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. Maxwell: Towards a New Definition of the Elegant Soulman. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Many love affairs have begun to a Sade album. 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. 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. Matthewman was born on 18 August 1960 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. There is always a new story to tell. Stuart: Exactly, yeah! Its the people in the company when were at an event, talking on the phone, sending emails its everything! So, in his brand evolution he has focused on two key things: We are custodians of the brand, many of us wont be here for our entire career, says Matthewman. His niche is seasoned R&B acts, along with radio stats on urban and R&B formats. Maxwell's Waiting Game: R&B Hitmaker Talks Loyalty, Longevity 1 talking about this. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. I think people do think of me as this depressed person crying in my ivory tower. L+T: Have you noticed a change in your audience over time? For the first three numbers, my foot was stuck and I couldnt move. But we had no idea if people were going to get it or not. 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". After releasing her album Lovers Rock in 2000, Sade wasnt heard again until 2010s Soldier of Love. I possess a strong community focused outlook, serving as a long-term executive member of . I would think after all these years, you guys must have a pretty tight relationship. 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 says that fail fast and fix problems doesnt mean be loose and make careless errors, but be empowered to try things: understand what success looks like and if it doesnt work, move on, and try something different. As a result, his advice to other marketers is this: Dont be afraid. We were working on Love Deluxe for about four months, physically making it. It was amazing. That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. 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. , the singers debut, which turns 25 this week; Maxwell is honoring the birthday with a reissue and a performance at the NAACP Image Awards. Matthewman is tentatively optimistic about the brand update because it has passed the pub test (a concept that the Americans he works with find very amusing), but one thing is clear: his is no ordinary approach to marketing its an evolutionary approach. Urban Hang Suite Left Him No Choice, Russ Doesnt Trust Other Labels. Its just whatever we feel like. 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. A guy from the record company came in and said, Its really beautiful, have you got drums coming in? Matthewman practices the principles of collaboration, engagement and education as much as he preaches them. Yeah. 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. In 1982, Matthewman relocated to London. We wanted to make sure that we really covered songs that weren't expected as well for us to do. 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, . 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. 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. Matthewman can be heard on saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and programming. Some of the things I write down, theyll never be on a record. Teaming with bandmate Paul S. Denman and keyboardist Andrew Hale, they formed the band Sade. Therell be no more messaging, people are going to bed. I always see it as a compliment. 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." . mark into a region where Brown Sugar never went, and that Baduizm only flirted with. Stuart Matthewman was born on August 18, 1960 in Hull, East Yorkshire, England. Finally, he recommends open and honest communication. Days. You are awesome!!! Honestly, were a little bit amateur in the studio, the way we work. 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.. Nobody knows all the answers. Popular As: Stuart Matthewman: Occupation: Rock Stars: Age: 60 years old: Zodiac Sign: Leo: Born: August 18, 1960 (United Kingdom) Birthday: August 18: Stuart: Its quite amazing! You dont partially choose, Im going to show this, but Im not going to show that. But it happens that way. Basically I found him very easy to work with because to me he is really like a beautiful facilitator. When we moved back from Nigeria, we didnt have anywhere to go, so first we lived with my grandparents, and then my mom got this job as a nurse. Over the five years he has been with the company, its has seen fantastic growth and its marketing revenue has tripled. Antwane joined Rated R&B in January 2013 after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Teaming with bassist Paul S. Denman and keyboardist Andrew Hale, they formed the band Sade. As Cottonbelly, Stuart released the dub/electronic album. 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. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. I enjoyed all the answers and details. When I was ten, I quite remember liking Maggie May, but that was it. 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.. When you make a record its so concrete, you know? And thats partly why Stuart and I gathered these insights, and are sharing them with you, readers: because we believe that success comes from learning and sharing. What we were doing was programmed, but it sounded live because we allowed other instruments to breathe and play around the vocals. You spend a lot of your life at work. 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We talk about the earliest days, go record by record through the Sade catalog, Live Aid, hit some of From the first day we moved into the house, I was making friends; no one ever brought up my color. 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). What do you think the biggest misconception about you would be? Sometimes the songs dont come from my lyrics. 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! I was a 22-year-old kid flying to meet guys who were 50, 60 years old, Maxwell says. 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. Sade's longtime collaborator and famed British musician Stuart Matthewman who is an original member of the band exclusively tells Rated R&B, "We're working on a new album." Matthewman says Sade and their creative team currently have "a bunch of songs," that eager fans will hear once they're satisfied with the final product. Last edited on 15 February 2023, at 12:40, "Maxwell Wasn't Sure He Wanted to Be a Star. In the early Nineties, a young Maxwell was enraptured by Marvin Gaye, Prince, Graham Central Station, and the warmth of studios with Neve mixing consoles, but he wasnt sure he wanted to be a singer. I always do that, start talking about something else. I got into that later. For more information, please see our Indeed, the world was waiting. 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.. But, your songs have meant so much to so many. So were definitely not going to leave it that long. 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. Its heavy, just the whole experience. You cant craft a message in Australia that will resonate all around the world., Matthewman understands the pain of working for US-based companies where head office would come up with a plan, give it to the Australian team, and it just wouldnt fly. They asked me if I'd like to write a bio for superstar singer Sade. Soul Woman. It doesnt matter. Just own it. 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? Joining Latin funk band Pride, Matthewman met singer Sade Adu and they began writing songs together. I just like it. He and I both agree that back in the day marketers saw each other as competitors. So, that got me interested and I started collecting albums. [laughs] I think now, Im less open than I used to be sometimes, because I have to protect myself. 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. Our mission is simple: help marketers excel. What I could immediately grasp, I took in. We dont consciously say I want this song to sound like that one, but it creeps in there. Between Sade albums and tours, Stuart stays quite active in the music world: composing film scores for the Polish Brothers' TwinFalls Idaho (1999),Northfork (2003),The Astronaut Farmer (2006), and Nelson George's TV movie,Life Support(2007) as well as producing and co-writing with various artists, notably Maxwell on his first three albums, and with English singer/songwriter Paloma Faith. 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.. 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. 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