I hate that Im so hard on myself, really. ' 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, The two men ended up working together on multiple tracks that appeared on. Their self-titled album was released on Decca/Universal in 2015. No, I wouldnt say that, but Im not a real jazz buff. 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. A guy from the record company came in and said, Its, really beautiful, have you got drums coming in? 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 Just own it. 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. Below we countdown to Stuart Matthewman upcoming birthday. You mentioned Stuart Matthewman and Andrew Hale before, but what is your relationship like with bassist Paul Denman? Not everything is going to work., He uses this approach with his team. 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. http://traffic.libsyn.com/podsodcast/2015-08-18T17_13_14-07_00.mp3, Follow THE PODS & SODS NETWORK on WordPress.com. Finally, he recommends open and honest communication. Stuart: I think our formula is the fact that we dont really have a formula. That seems like a marketing ploy thats obvious in todays world, but I was actually scared that something would happen. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. I learned more during that time than at any other time in my life. Stuart is an avid cyclist, training and racing with New York race team, RBNY Racing. A true player of many musical instruments and amazing writer. 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. Sade: If I could turn back time? Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-90s and actually changed careers half way. Sometimes the best songs come out when you discuss them less and just let them happen. 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. Maxwell then caps the first half of. 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 I Want You. ' 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. I wasnt so sure that I really wanted to be in the front. All Rights reserved. 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. And they dont even speak English! The lead A&R was like, Whats the deal with the instrumental? I mean, I was there on the edge, but I wasnt that into it. What happens when an internationally-experienced content expert, speaker and interviewer gets up close and personal with a global head of marketing communications? Stuart: Almost like watching a theater production or an opera or something where you can just completely change the stage. I speak with Matthewmanabout international marketing, how he defines success and what he wishes hed learned earlier. Theyve been friends and worked together since the beginning of our careers. The company, IR, produces software that helps large enterprises monitor, manage and troubleshoot their critical networks and systems. Stuart: Well we absolutely loved doing the tour. 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. Basically, Im always late, so I never have time to consider the realities. 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. ' Maxwell recalls. Popular As: Stuart Matthewman: Occupation: Rock Stars: Age: 60 years old: Zodiac Sign: Leo: Born: August 18, 1960 (United Kingdom) Birthday: August 18: ' Maxwell recalls. Stuart is kind of an unsung hero and a truly incredible talent! So, the picture someone has of you is never completely true. Cookie Notice Chipboard we called it. Well, first of all its good that we stopped and didnt try to make another one off the back of the previous album. I mean it sounded very different from what we usually did. Over the five years he has been with the company, its has seen fantastic growth and its marketing revenue has tripled. 23K views 7 years ago tuart Matthewman of Sade joins Eric of Pods & Sods in conversation. When you make a record its so concrete, you know? By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Even your organisation doesnt. Maxwell enlisted other pros with enviable track records as well: David Gamson, a former member of Scritti Politti who had also produced for Chaka Khan and Sheila E.; Mike Pela, who produced and engineered for Sade and Fine Young Cannibals; and Itaal Shur, who would go on to mint money by co-writing Santanas gargantuan hit Smooth., The first half of Urban Hang Suite is springy and suave. It depends on each song, really, how it comes to be. Are you a perfectionist when it comes to your music? They asked me if Id like to write a bio for superstar singer Sade. It liberated the industry and gave people a lot of opportunities. 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. So, that got me interested and I started collecting albums. He and I both agree that back in the day marketers saw each other as competitors. Its quite a responsibility. 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? You dont have all the answers. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Maxwell enlisted other pros with enviable track records as well: David Gamson, a former member of, is springy and suave. Sure, not in the conventional sense, but the elusive artist has remained a name drop by the rap connoisseurs for ages now. I know theyre out there but are there any that are kind of over the top? Sometimes the songs dont come from my lyrics. We travel quite a bit. Trivia (1) Is the saxophonist and guitarist of 80s-present pop group Sade. I was like, Its amazing, but it sounds like its already done. There are just certain things that I really love and I can understand. 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). "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. L+T: Amazing! I always do that, start talking about something else. Stuart Matthewman started marketing in the mid-'90s and actually changed careers half way. He is known for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Sea of Love (1989) and Spanglish (2004). L+T: How do you feel working with Hip-Hop artists or being sampled by them affected your music/career? 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. L+T: What still keeps you so passionate about making music? I would think after all these years, you guys must have a pretty tight relationship. Now I collect books, but I never have time to read them. His most vital album. Were a lot of things, but when youre singing, when youre presenting yourself, you dont give everything away. Its about how people in different regions like to be communicated to, learn and educate themselves that impacts marketing.. 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. Sade Adu is hip-hop. Stuart is an avid cyclist, and races with New York race team RBNY. I dont remember really, but it was two guys from my village that I ran into when I went to see Misty in the Roots, a lovers rock band that was big in England. But it just didnt work. Its good. Sade: This time we wanted to do something more theatrical and take the audience somewhere unexpected. Weve managed to get that right. I wasnt really a Rod Stewart fan, but that one song. Stuart Matthewman of Sade joins Eric in conversation. I dont think Ive ever really known what romance is. I do think you should think about the fans but hopefully our fans will grow with us. Today, I might look after demand gen but it doesnt mean that the person looking after content, social, digital marketing dont have input. Days. 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. 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. We carry a pipeline and a revenue target. Solo transcription.Transcription sheet you will find on http://solojunkie.wix.com/solojunkie But it always ends up kind of sounding like us anyway. There are more licensed stations now, but when I was growing up, there werent many options. Yeah, I have a little notebook, but Im always losing it as well; mislaying it. 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. We all had so much fun. We never think about the record company, we never think about friends or fans, we never think about radio. How did he do it? Maybe Stuart [Matthewman] or Andrew [Hale] will come from a bassline and then we build on that. While Urban Hang Suite is dashing and assured, its creator was profoundly ambivalent about his place in the music industry at the time. True success for us really is: are we delivering quality pipeline that results in revenue? , produces software that helps large enterprises monitor, manage and troubleshoot their critical networks and systems. Maxwell: Towards a New Definition of the Elegant Soulman. I got into that later. Eventually somebody was supposed to replace me, but that never happened. We were forever butting heads., Now he does things differently. It was a good day. In the early Nineties, a young Maxwell was enraptured by, music around as a songwriter, Maxwell recalls. 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. 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