Alex de Grassi free download Available only till Dec 1

Windham Hill Recording artist, Alex de Grassi, was in the studio of Blue Coast founder, Cookie Marenco, recording a piece of music for an upcoming video. De Grassi played a museum piece instrument built by Fred Carlson. The harp guitar, called The New Dream, is a stunningly beautiful, one of a kind 39 stringed instrument.

Marenco recorded and produced the session which Blue Coast is offering as a download free for the month of December. It is a holiday gift of thanks for its fans supporting the new acoustic label.

The technique for recording was a modified version of Blue Coast's proprietary technique Extended Sound Environment, E.S.E.

Greensleeves

4700% Increase in Visits From Japan Moves it to the #3 Country Visiting the Blue Coast Site

The activity to our website has been incredible the last month showing an increase of 48% new traffic worldwide. United States, followed by France still hold the 1 and 2 positions for most visitors with a surprise increase from Japan of 4700%. Moving from number 10 position to number 3, Japan overtook China's recent third position. Still China showed an increase of 48% over last month. Australia showed tremendous growth with a 333% increase over last month, moving it to the #7 position.

Currently, the visitor list by country is...
1. United States
2. France
3. Japan
4. China
5. Canada
6. Netherlands
7. Australia
8. Italy
9. Norway
10. Belgium

We suspect the increase from Japan stems from airplay of our friend, Philip O'Hanlon, who was giving a presentation on behalf of his company, On a High Note, representing Luxman and other wonderful brands. Philip uses one of our songs, "On a Slow Day" as part of his audio demonstrations. Also of note, Brenda Vaugn, an amazing vocalist who had worked with founder Cookie Marenco, contacted us a few weeks ago mentioning her involvement in the Japanese music scene. Brenda has been living in Japan for 9 years. Brenda and Cookie are in initial discussions to move label efforts in Japan farther as well as welcoming Brenda as a potential artist for Blue Coast future releases.

Blue Coast Collection Goes to Brazil

We're very excited to announce the first purchase from our website to Brazil. While we have had many visitors from South America to our website, this marks the first purchase. It's exciting to watch our enthusiastic community grow worldwide.

Stereophile Comments about the Blue Coast Collection--Sept 2007

"--The E.S.E. Sessions is a spectacularly natural presentation of acoustic instruments and voices in a rich, defining ambience that envelops the listener.---"
Kalman Rubinson,
Stereophile

For the rest of the Stereophile quote, check out our press page at
Blue Coast Press

We're grateful to those listeners who are helping us spread the word in magazines, blogs and to their friends. Thanks to all of you.

Blue Coast at Far West Folk Alliance

Patrick and I traveled to Vancouver, Washington to attend the Regional Folk Alliance. Happens Patrick was playing showcases with Mick Overman and the Maniacs (an artist I'm looking forward to going into the studio with very soon) and many of the Blue Coast Artists are from Portland.

We heard some talented musicians, met with old friends, and strategized to bring great music music and sound back to the masses.

We wanted to thank all the great folks we met and hope to record and stay in contact with you all!

Cookie

China Moves to #3 for Visitors to our Blue Coast Website

Up from the #6 position last month, China has jumped above Canada for visitors coming to our website. Following the United States and France, China now holds the #3 position in the list of 48 countries who visit our website, a rise over 900% in the last 6 months.

All in all, Blue Coast has now touched down in Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. Who will be the first visitor from Antartica? We'll let you know!