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STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN

X Amounts Of Niceness

About Me

Cottonbelly is the pseudonym of Stuart Matthewman.Born in Hull, England, Stuart moved to London in the early 80s where he met his long time music partner Sade. As a band, with Paul Denman and Andrew Hale they have released 7 albums and 2 live DVDs. Under the name SWEETBACK, Stuart, Paul and Andrew have also released 2 CDs. Sweetback features the guest vocalists: Aya, Chocolate Genius, Amel Larieux, Bahamadia, Leroy Osborne and Maxwell. Stuart met Maxwell in the early 90s. Together they have produced and written on all his cds. Hold your breath for a new Maxwell album sometime in 2008.....When he isn’t producing and writing with other artists Stuart uses his a/k/a COTTONBELLY to release his own Dub/Electronic influenced productions and remixes. As Cottonbelly he has worked for an eclectic mix of artists including: Janet Jackson, Gregory Isaacs, Esthero and The Isley Brothers…. the full length CD ‘X Amounts Of Niceness’ was released on Wrong Records in 2004.Stuarts other musical passion is composing Film Scores. He has scored all the Polish Brothers movies: ‘Twin Falls Idaho’, ‘Jackpot’, ‘Northfork’ and ‘Astronaut Farmer’ the starring featuring Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen .The movie is released on DVD i and the CD of the music is available from Amazon or iTunes. He also composed the score for the Nelson George movie ‘Life Support’ Featuring an amazing performance by Queen Latifah who won an Emmy for best actress. He is currently getting inspired by the new Polish Brothers script 'Manure' which is in Pre- Production .And getting ideas together for The Lady....... . I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2006
Band Members: Stuart Matthewman
Influences: The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.
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Record Label: Various
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Bits and Bobs

Ivana Santilli has just released her gorgeous new album 'Tony'. There are a couple of tracks "All Afternoon" and "Keep it 2 yourself" that I co-wrote and produced. You can get it at: http://www.insoun...
Posted by STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:56:00 PST

Been there, done that, got the t shirt...

Thanks so much for everyone that sponsored my 100 bike tour..It really means a lot. It was fun but really brutal at times..I did exactly what everyone tells you not to do if you are riding solo...I ha...
Posted by STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:29:00 PST

Hermit

Hey mates.. Been a bit of a hermit of late...Spending most of my time living up in Woodstock..I love the hills here..I cycle nearly every day now , 30-40 miles..I even manage to get up the hill to the...
Posted by STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:22:00 PST

Updates Feb 07

Just a quick post to let you know what's going on.The soundtrack for the movie Astronaut Farmer was released by Verase Sarabande on the 13th of Feb. It is also available on Amazon and iTunes. It featu...
Posted by STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:17:00 PST

A breath of fresh air from the abundance of mediocrity in the music world

Ok..So I just saw the most amazing live show..The Knife. They just played at Webster Hall in NY. It was so great to see a band actually making the effort to present something totally different. The so...
Posted by STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:16:00 PST

Hi mates

Well, here we are..at last...If you can..t beat em ..join em..I.. guess.. I was dragged here kicking ..n screaming but you know what ? It ain..t all that bad......When you don..t fall down that worm h...
Posted by STUART (cottonbelly) MATTHEWMAN on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:42:00 PST