Sade released their Bring Me Home Live 2011 DVD a short while ago, which was a homecoming of sorts for the band and their leader, having toured for the first time in a decade. You 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. 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. 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. Yeah, I think so, but thats only because they see one level. I was walking in like, I think youre incredibly valid. I love what punk did for the music industry, particularly since it gave everybody different ideas of what the music business could be. Yes, I have. That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. Sade is one of the few artists who can take a lengthy hiatus, drop an album, steal the show and take another break. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. It liberated the industry and gave people a lot of opportunities. Did you start listening to jazz at that time? 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 1996 Matthewman composed the music the short movie 'Bajo del Perro' by LA based film makers Mike Polish and Mark Polish. We dont consciously say I want this song to sound like that one, but it creeps in there. Maxwell then caps the first half of. 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. And they dont even speak English! Were also measured by how well we integrate and work with sales! Matthewman believes that being in sync with your sales team, listening to them and being able to get them to engage with you is super critical. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. When it comes to trusting people, I have quite good instincts. But it always ends up kind of sounding like us anyway. 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. [pause] But, we were talking about Paul. He says, Typically, the problems people are trying to solve are the same. 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. 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! Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. Good questions. They played really good music, basically. I would think after all these years, you guys must have a pretty tight relationship. Its funny, most of the songs I cant tell you if I really like them or not; its really hard to be objective about it. But, Cherish the Day, I know if I heard it on the radio I would say, God, this is good. There was a station called Radio Caroline. I had my little cassette of this album which had been mixed and mastered by Tom Coyne, who has passed away since, a genius mastering guy. He says, The key things to me are consistency, flexibility and collaboration with your key stakeholders: thats the rest of your marketing team around the globe as well as sales, service and people speaking to your customers and enablement. He adds that its critical to listen to the people in the regions for the nuances that happen locally and to work with them to make sure the campaign is actually going to land and work. You dont have all the answers. 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? 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. We carry a pipeline and a revenue target. 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. Yeah. A guy from the record company said, Its from a new artist, would you meet him? He cites his musical influences as Junior Walker, King Curtis, Art Pepper, Ernie Isley, Steve Jones, Wah Wah Watson, Issac Hayes, Bill Withers, Lee Perry, Tony Iommi, and Gustav Mahler. L+T: How do you feel working with Hip-Hop artists or being sampled by them affected your music/career? 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. Hopefully the organisation outlives all of us; but when were here, were the people that live and breathe the brand and we need to project those brand values collectively out to our people and the rest of the world., The new brand is easier to use but, more importantly, employees believe in it. Its not an incredibly professional way of working, the way that we work, so its always going to come out a little quirky. I collect ideas in my head all the time. We never think about the record company, we never think about friends or fans, we never think about radio. Varese Sarabande : A 30th Anniversary Celebration (A Chronicle Of Great Film Music 2003-2008) [omnibus, ost] (2016) by Various Artists () on maniadb.com You wont be in trouble. Mission Statement and Core Values; Wisdom Council; Calendar of Events; Programs. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. What I like personally when I listen to other peoples music is when the music makes you feel something. Joining Latin funk band Pride, Matthewman met singer Sade Adu and they began writing songs together. 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. Thank you Eric. Making music is like life: you never really know whats round the next bend in the river. Success for me is defined as how fulfilled I am, he says, the work Im doing and the impact Im having in my organisation. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. But we havent had anyone too scary. At that time, not many girls bought records; they were just listening to the same records as their boyfriends. A true player of many musical instruments and amazing writer. I wish I could take it out on other people. I had an older brother who was always very protective of me. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, record producer and musician. ', 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. People would get together there one night a week; it was outside of London and the stage was made from beer crates. Stuart Colin Matthewman (born 18 August 1960), also known as Cottonbelly, is an English songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. But, individually, as far as people are concerned, Im an optimist, because I believe theres a lot of good in people. It can be embarrassing when people go through your private thoughts. 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. Honestly, were a little bit amateur in the studio, the way we work. Some of the songs on here are things I wanted to write about a long time ago. I know I dont get angry with anyone except myself, really. 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. 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.. In 1996 Matthewman along with Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman formed the studio band Sweetback. I mean youd think as we get older, I guess our audience kind of grows with us. Our mission is simple: help marketers excel. L+T: Is there anything you would change about your career? 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. When I was ten, I quite remember liking Maggie May, but that was it. 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. Minutes. Teaming with bassist Paul S. Denman and keyboardist Andrew Hale, they formed the band Sade. 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. Some of the things I write down, theyll never be on a record. But no I mean yeah, the audience has always been really appreciative and very vocal with it. 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 loved that song; I cant remember liking anything else I heard on standard pop radio. 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). 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. You with a better experience which cookies we are using or switch them off in.. 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