With Sade Adu, Paul S. Denman, and Andrew Hale, he gained worldwide fame as the guitarist/saxophonist of the English band Sade. But we were accepted and there were no problems, no questions or conflicts because we were different. Stuart has been with Sade since before they were signed - playing guitar, playing sax and co-writing. Sometimes the best songs come out when you discuss them less and just let them happen. Chipboard we called it. Some of the songs on here are things I wanted to write about a long time ago. I know that sounds a bit odd. Maxwell enlisted other pros with enviable track records as well: David Gamson, a former member of, is springy and suave. Hes a really important member of the band. Theres a bunch of YouTube clips. And this time, you know like our fans have grown with us. Back in the day, marketing was about positioning things so they seemed better than they really were, says Matthewman. 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. I dont think Ive ever really known what romance is. ', 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. No matter where people are, regardless of whether someones thirsty or trying to deploy new technology, their problems are largely the same. Sade Adu of Sade and Teddy Riley are among the 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees. I mean theyre not like, dangerous. Matthewman was born on 18 August 1960 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. When Van Den Bossche stopped by to visit Matthewman later, he brought the singer as well. We have no rules in the studio so anyone is, you know, always open to try anything. I wasnt someone who had a lot of music around me when I was a child, really. As beautifully sweet as she was wickedly talented, Sade was the anti-diva Diva. Recently, Stuart teamed up with singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vanessa Bley, daughter of Jazz legend Paul Bley, to form the band, In 2016, Stuart has kept busy back in his recording studio with several projects underway: co-writing and producing two songs on Maxwell's latest album earlier this year and composing the film score for the movie. Im sure people tell you that. Gina Balarin speaks with IRs Stuart Matthewman. What I could immediately grasp, I took in. He says, Typically, the problems people are trying to solve are the same. The record label found the idea of starting an album in this way baffling. Yeah, I think so, but thats only because they see one level. 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. Whats your favorite song on Love Deluxe? Can you talk a little about you and the band working on this album after not being in the studio for a few years? I think that children arent naturally racist at all. And they dont even speak English! 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. '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. We love it. I got into that later. L+T: Who are some artists you are interested in these days? But no I mean yeah, the audience has always been really appreciative and very vocal with 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). In 1996 Matthewman composed the music the short movie 'Bajo del Perro' by LA based film makers Mike Polish and Mark Polish. I think they were a little confused at first. (Ive experienced that before with Sade when theyre scared of putting things out, Matthewman says sympathetically. We talk about the earliest days, go record by record through the Sade catalog, Live Aid, hit some of He doesnt put in so much when were composing; its more Andrew and Stuart. I grew up on a council estate in a village. He and I both agree that back in the day marketers saw each other as competitors. 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. According to Matthewman, Sade Adu and company have already written . "Lost" and "Listen Hear" from blackSUMMERS'night, "Taste My Own Tears" & "It's the Not Knowing" from A Perfect Contradiction, "Downdeep: Hula," "Know These Things: Shouldn't You" & "Gravity: Pushing to Pull" from Embrya, "Lonely's the Only Company (I & II)," "Welcome" & "Whenever, Wherever, Whatever" from Urban Hang Suite, "Tonight Is the Night" Stuart Matthewman Remix. Whatever book I was reading, that would become my entire life. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Their self-titled album was released on Decca/Universal in 2015. But there is, perhaps, one last surprise that Matthewman left with me: the lesson he wishes hed learned earlier. The singer started her first disappearing act after she took eight years to release a follow-up to 1992s Love Deluxe. Its about how people in different regions like to be communicated to, learn and educate themselves that impacts marketing.. It would be easier to blame somebody else, but Im not that kind of person. Indeed, the world was waiting. 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." . But, hes also pretty punky and rocky at the same time. Yeah. For the first three numbers, my foot was stuck and I couldnt move. Not just people hanging out with their parents! How do you help a global marketing team manage that? In 2016, Stuart has kept busy back in his recording studio with several projects underway: co-writing and producing two songs on Maxwell's latest album earlier this year and composing the film score for the movie The Erotic Dreams Of The Chelsea Hotel. I hate that Im so hard on myself, really. Were you aware then that your family was different? Theyve been friends and worked together since the beginning of our careers. I was so engrossed in the process of reading. 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). Something will come over me and Ill suddenly realize I hadnt seen it lately. We were working on Love Deluxe for about four months, physically making it. You are awesome!!! I wanted it to happen, but I was secretly afraid., Maxwell Wasnt Sure He Wanted to Be a Star. If I were somebody else, Im not sure I would like Sade. Its great being the only female in there, so [laughs]. Your email address will not be published. In the early Nineties, a young Maxwell was enraptured by, music around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. 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. Stuart: Oh yeah, absolutely. 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. 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 tended not to venture into the stuff that I didnt understand. Im sure a lot of people hate me because of that, theyre like, Yeah, that bitch, Sade, I hate her. [laughs]. Someone sprayed or wrote on top of it, Bitch sings when she wants to. Sade loved it.. 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, . As Matthewman puts it, When you live and work somewhere, you understand the nuances between the people in different cities and states. If someone tries to say, It wasnt my fault, call that out. Eventually somebody was supposed to replace me, but that never happened. 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 am an entrepreneurial, customer-centric and results focused marketing and consulting professional with extensive experience across diverse industries. What do you think the biggest misconception about you would be? 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 In that I could just hum something to him and, though it could seem like a really shoddy idea, he would somehow immediately just play the right chords that would make it sound like something really special. Stuart: Well we absolutely loved doing the tour. Sade Adu is hip-hop. Sades longtime collaborator and famed British musician Stuart Matthewman who is an original member of the band exclusively tells Rated R&B, Were working on a new album., Matthewman says Sade and their creative team currently have a bunch of songs, that eager fans will hear once theyre satisfied with the final product. I dont think I was, you know. 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Were a lot of things, but when youre singing, when youre presenting yourself, you dont give everything away. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time I try to write so that it is indecipherable. The things that most depress you are often the things that you write about. Now Its the Music Industrys Hottest Recommendation Tool, Jason Derulo Pens First Book 'Sing Your Name Out Loud', Wizkid More Love, Less Ego Tour Postponed to Fall 2023, A Year After Brain Injury, Amy Grant Sets First Solo Musical Return in a Decade, Blink-182 Postpone First-Ever Latin America Tour Dates Following Travis Barker Finger Injury, Raye Relives Her Sexual Assault in Harrowing 'Ice Cream Man' Video, How to Watch 'The Mandalorian' Online: Stream Season 3 Now, Alex MurdaughCalled 'Family Annihilator' by Prosecution in Murder Trial. What happens when an internationally-experienced content expert, speaker and interviewer gets up close and personal with a global head of marketing communications? Its hardly surprising that Matthewman was instrumental in setting up the first IR webinars that attracted 400 to 500 delegates: webinars that were so successful that Microsoft asked to join and co-present with IR. But we kind of had to, you know, to do events and various things. I was a 22-year-old kid flying to meet guys who were 50, 60 years old, Maxwell says. 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. The record company knows theres no point in nagging us or giving us deadlines. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Then we feel were completely cut off and we could just get on with doing what we do. There was one kid who jumped out of the bushes once and insulted me, but I told my big brother, and the next day my brother jumped out at him. So glad I found this. If I had to pick one it would be Cherish the Day, but I dont know why. You get some perspective on why youre making a record. ', Those were just a few elements of what the singer describes as a smorgasbord of cultures flowing into Urban Hang Suite. Stuart: Almost like watching a theater production or an opera or something where you can just completely change the stage. I was walking in like, I think youre incredibly valid. Gina Balarin is founder and director of Verballistics Pty Ltd, TEDx speaker and author ofThe Secret Army: Leadership, Marketing and the Power of People. Yeahyeah. See also. Life+Times: What do you aim to do differently with your live sets each time you tour? 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. We never think about the record company, we never think about friends or fans, we never think about radio. Maxwell's Waiting Game: R&B Hitmaker Talks Loyalty, Longevity That was very much Sophie [Muller] and Sade together. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts We loved it; it was so simple, Matthewman remembers. It doesnt matter. There are just certain things that I really love and I can understand. I collect ideas in my head all the time. Because of my age, Ive been thinking a lot about what we are going to do, how we are going to get out of this mess. 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? I travel with it and sometimes I look around and cant find it. Maxwell: Towards a New Definition of the Elegant Soulman. We talk about the earliest days, go record by record through the Sade catalog, Live Aid, hit some of the key songs and stories behind them, talk about what's next for Sade and get a taste of his new project, Twin Danger.Michael Sweet of Stryper joins Eric of Pods \u0026 Sods in conversation. You dont have all the answers. 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. Sure, not in the conventional sense, but the elusive artist has remained a name drop by the rap connoisseurs for ages now. Talk a little about performing with the group. I wanted the cover to not be my face, Maxwell says. 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. Stuart: Exactly, yeah! 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. Required fields are marked *. L+T: Do you think that that preserves the organic quality of the music? I learned more during that time than at any other time in my life. How long does that formulation of ideas take? Antwane joined Rated R&B in January 2013 after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Its about war and killing somebody. Its great; its this guy from Germany, who I guess hes a cross-dresser. I think the general consensus is we cant possibly leave it that long next time. Sade: Yesterday I was in my car. Im a mixture of being really idealistic and hopeful, and really pessimistic about our future. Soul Woman. Solo transcription.Transcription sheet you will find on http://solojunkie.wix.com/solojunkie 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. Good questions. Late for sound check, late to get ready Thats my defense. ' Matthewman recalls. But today in the B2B space its more about educating people. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. Stuart: No! [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. L+T: Its hard not to, right? 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