The January 2009 Stereophile magazine includes a feature article on how Blue Coast label founder, Cookie Marenco, records and mixes acoustic guitar. On hand to perform was Jason McGuire, flamenco guitarist extraordinaire, while Marenco position microphones to achieve a classic Blue Coast 'sound'.
Two workshops took place in September 2008 at OTR Studios sponsored by the Bay Area Audiophile Society. Bob Walters organized the event that allowed attendees to experiment in the control room to achieve various soundscapes. Downloads of the music are available in stereo and multitrack versions at a special page...
http://www.bluecoastrecords.com/baas.html
Special thanks to Jason Victor Serinus for his attention to detail in the writing of the article.
Currently, the article is only available in print copies. We'll keep checking for the online version to appear.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
96K Downloads from Blue Coast Records
A previously unreleased track from Keith Greeninger and Dayan Kai is now available from Blue Coast Records. Waiting for the Rain has been posted to our new Downloads Now! page. We hope to add a new single every month for our fans to enjoy. Visit our website and go to "singles" under the Music Menu Item each month and see what we've added!
Downloads Now! is a new services from our sister company, OTR Studios.
We hope you enjoy it!
If you're interested in other CDQD* or HRD**, please visit
Blue Coast World
*CD Quality Downloads
** High Resolution Downloads
Downloads Now! is a new services from our sister company, OTR Studios.
We hope you enjoy it!
If you're interested in other CDQD* or HRD**, please visit
Blue Coast World
*CD Quality Downloads
** High Resolution Downloads
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Rocky Mountain Audiofest a Great Success!
Hi friends, we had a great turn out in Denver at Audiofest!. Sharing the room with FestivaLink.net and LSA Group helped bring lots of activity to the room. The panels were interesting and informative. Art Lande and Justing Saragueta brought live music to the Marriot under the Blue Coast banners. The Art Lande release was wonderfully received, as was our flagship recording, Blue Coast Collection.
Hope to see you all at CES!
Hope to see you all at CES!
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Blue Coast Records Schedule at RMAF Oct 10-12, Come Visit Marriot Rm 414
BLUE COAST RECORDS www.bluecoastrecords.com
Schedule of Events and Activities
WELCOME RMAF 2008 Oct 10-12 Marriot Denver Tech Center
Blue Coast Records is pleased to announce our next SACD Release
Art Lande―solo piano While She Sleeps
Celebration for the release includes a performance by Art Lande
Saturday Oct 11, 2008 at the Marriot Denver Tech Center, 7pm
Followed by "Meet the Artist and Producer" reception and disc signing
Purchase a pre-release copy of the SACD at the Blue Coast Records Marriot room 414
If you are a dealer, please come to Marriot room 414 for Show Special Wholesale Pricing.
Discs also available at the Digital Pavilion Expo, Hyatt Tech Center, Mesa Verde B
or at the Acoustic Sounds booth.
MORE BLUE COAST RECORDS EVENTS at RMAF
New Blue Coast Artist, Justin Saragueta, guitar and vocals
Friday Oct 10, 2008, 8pm at the Lobby of the Marriot Denver Tech Center
Cookie Marenco, Founder and Producer, Blue Coast Records
Panelist at the Digital Pavilion, 4 pm Friday Oct 10, "Let's Get Digital"
Panelist at the Digital Pavilion 1:30 pm Saturday Oct 11, "The New Record Label"
AND MORE BLUE COAST RECORDS ACTIVITIES at Marriot Room 414
See room schedule for more details
Loaded iPod Drawing!
In conjunction with FestivaLink.net
Come to Marrior room 414 and sign up for the drawing
Blue Coast World debuts CD Quality Downloads for Electronic Distribution
Hear the Music as the Artist, Producer and Engineers Intended
FestivaLink.net Live Performance Concert Downloads of your Favorite Roots and Acoustic Music
Audio provided by LSA Group and High Resolution Server by Exemplar Audio
Special Thanks to Rick Young, Kurt Bauer and Audiotion
Original DSD recordings of The Blue Coast Collection provided by Gus Skinas of Super Audio Center
Curated preloaded iPod from Walker Media for jazz and classical music enthusiasts
Milk, Cookies, Free Wifi and Much More!
Schedule of Events and Activities
WELCOME RMAF 2008 Oct 10-12 Marriot Denver Tech Center
Blue Coast Records is pleased to announce our next SACD Release
Art Lande―solo piano While She Sleeps
Celebration for the release includes a performance by Art Lande
Saturday Oct 11, 2008 at the Marriot Denver Tech Center, 7pm
Followed by "Meet the Artist and Producer" reception and disc signing
Purchase a pre-release copy of the SACD at the Blue Coast Records Marriot room 414
If you are a dealer, please come to Marriot room 414 for Show Special Wholesale Pricing.
Discs also available at the Digital Pavilion Expo, Hyatt Tech Center, Mesa Verde B
or at the Acoustic Sounds booth.
MORE BLUE COAST RECORDS EVENTS at RMAF
New Blue Coast Artist, Justin Saragueta, guitar and vocals
Friday Oct 10, 2008, 8pm at the Lobby of the Marriot Denver Tech Center
Cookie Marenco, Founder and Producer, Blue Coast Records
Panelist at the Digital Pavilion, 4 pm Friday Oct 10, "Let's Get Digital"
Panelist at the Digital Pavilion 1:30 pm Saturday Oct 11, "The New Record Label"
AND MORE BLUE COAST RECORDS ACTIVITIES at Marriot Room 414
See room schedule for more details
Loaded iPod Drawing!
In conjunction with FestivaLink.net
Come to Marrior room 414 and sign up for the drawing
Blue Coast World debuts CD Quality Downloads for Electronic Distribution
Hear the Music as the Artist, Producer and Engineers Intended
FestivaLink.net Live Performance Concert Downloads of your Favorite Roots and Acoustic Music
Audio provided by LSA Group and High Resolution Server by Exemplar Audio
Special Thanks to Rick Young, Kurt Bauer and Audiotion
Original DSD recordings of The Blue Coast Collection provided by Gus Skinas of Super Audio Center
Curated preloaded iPod from Walker Media for jazz and classical music enthusiasts
Milk, Cookies, Free Wifi and Much More!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Blue Coast Records Announces New Release from Art Lande and a Live Performance at Rocky Mountain Audiofest
New from Blue Coast Records!
Art Lande, solo piano SACD, While She Sleeps
SACD release party 7pm, Rocky Mountain Audiofest
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 S. Syracuse Street
Denver, Colorado 80237 USA
The long awaited SACD from Blue Coast Records featuring Art Lande will make its debut at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest, Oct 10-12.
Art Lande, the masterful jazz pianist from Boulder, Colorado recorded this very special selection of pieces with producers Cookie Marenco and Jean Claude Reynaud. Songs range from the Beatles, to Stephen Foster to Duke Ellington intertwined with compositions of Lande’s own. The audiophile quality release uses a modified recording style of the ESE technique developed for Blue Coast Records.
To celebrate the release, Blue Coast Records will host an event at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest show with Art Lande performing solo piano pieces from the recording. The event takes place on Saturday, Oct 11, 7pm at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. Blue Coast is also hosting a room at the Marriott for Audiofest where attendants can listen to the recording on an incredible speaker system provided by the LSA Group.
Blue Coast Records will also showcase one of its new artists, Justin Saragueta, performing on Friday at 8pm. “Gueta” is a singer/songwriter from Huntington Beach, CA. A former golf pro turned surfer turned musician, Gueta brings his unique view on life to his songs with effortless cruising grooves and international flavors.
Sharing the room at Audiofest with Blue Coast Records is FestivaLink.net. The high rez live download company is sponsoring an iPod giveaway with preloaded music from FestivaLink.net and Blue Coast Records. The LSA Group will be providing the sound system for the event. As part of Blue Coast ‘World’, there will be a dozen or more CD quality downloads available at bluecoastworld.com from various new labels.
If you bought the advance download, we are sending out the disc this week. If your address has changed, please contact us with your new address!
For more information, please contact: Blue Coast Records - Patrick O’Connor, 650-759-1357
Visit BCR in room 414 at the Marriott Tech Center, Denver, during Audiofest.
For press, radio and other promotional questions, please contact us.
Thanks for your support of High Quality Music
Blue Coast Records
Art Lande, solo piano SACD, While She Sleeps
SACD release party 7pm, Rocky Mountain Audiofest
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 S. Syracuse Street
Denver, Colorado 80237 USA
The long awaited SACD from Blue Coast Records featuring Art Lande will make its debut at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest, Oct 10-12.
Art Lande, the masterful jazz pianist from Boulder, Colorado recorded this very special selection of pieces with producers Cookie Marenco and Jean Claude Reynaud. Songs range from the Beatles, to Stephen Foster to Duke Ellington intertwined with compositions of Lande’s own. The audiophile quality release uses a modified recording style of the ESE technique developed for Blue Coast Records.
To celebrate the release, Blue Coast Records will host an event at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest show with Art Lande performing solo piano pieces from the recording. The event takes place on Saturday, Oct 11, 7pm at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. Blue Coast is also hosting a room at the Marriott for Audiofest where attendants can listen to the recording on an incredible speaker system provided by the LSA Group.
Blue Coast Records will also showcase one of its new artists, Justin Saragueta, performing on Friday at 8pm. “Gueta” is a singer/songwriter from Huntington Beach, CA. A former golf pro turned surfer turned musician, Gueta brings his unique view on life to his songs with effortless cruising grooves and international flavors.
Sharing the room at Audiofest with Blue Coast Records is FestivaLink.net. The high rez live download company is sponsoring an iPod giveaway with preloaded music from FestivaLink.net and Blue Coast Records. The LSA Group will be providing the sound system for the event. As part of Blue Coast ‘World’, there will be a dozen or more CD quality downloads available at bluecoastworld.com from various new labels.
If you bought the advance download, we are sending out the disc this week. If your address has changed, please contact us with your new address!
For more information, please contact: Blue Coast Records - Patrick O’Connor, 650-759-1357
Visit BCR in room 414 at the Marriott Tech Center, Denver, during Audiofest.
For press, radio and other promotional questions, please contact us.
Thanks for your support of High Quality Music
Blue Coast Records
Sunday, September 21, 2008
New SACD from Blue Coast Records features Art Lande, Solo Piano
The long awaited recording of Art Lande on solo piano is scheduled to ship from Blue Coast Records at the beginning of Oct. The official debut of the SACD with take place at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest (audiofest.net) starting on Oct. 10.
The new release features extraordinary performances of master jazz pianist, Art Lande. At the request of producer, Cookie Marenco, Art played the music of the Beatles, Stephen Foster, Duke Ellington and other standards with a soft touch and control over the 100 year old Steinway at OTR Studios. Performances also included several new compositions of his own.
A concert is planned to celebrate the release at Rocky Mountain Audiofest on Oct 11, 2008 7pm at the Denver Marriot Tech Center.
Check back at the Blue Coast website for more details on the concert and advance purchase of the disc.
The new release features extraordinary performances of master jazz pianist, Art Lande. At the request of producer, Cookie Marenco, Art played the music of the Beatles, Stephen Foster, Duke Ellington and other standards with a soft touch and control over the 100 year old Steinway at OTR Studios. Performances also included several new compositions of his own.
A concert is planned to celebrate the release at Rocky Mountain Audiofest on Oct 11, 2008 7pm at the Denver Marriot Tech Center.
Check back at the Blue Coast website for more details on the concert and advance purchase of the disc.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Blue Coast World debuts High Resolution Downloads and New SACD's at Rocky Mountain Audiofest, Oct 2008
Blue Coast Records, a west coast label known for exceptional acoustic recordings, will be hosting a room at Rocky Mountain Audiofest Oct 10-12, called Blue Coast World. Joining Blue Coast Records will be Festival Link and other high fidelity music companies. The LSA Group and Exemplar Audio is outfitting Blue Coast World with incredible gear that will make Room 414 at the Marriot in Denver one of the 'must hear' rooms at the show.
Unique music from known high quality recordings will feature artists from various genres. "Garbage in, garbage out", says Marenco, "what's the point of high fidelity music if the original recording is less than stellar".
Blue Coast Records will also host a special evening of solo piano with legendary talent, Art Lande. The performance will be a celebration of the Blue Coast Records release called, While She Sleeps, a solo piano recording featuring Mr. Lande. The performance is at 7pm at the Marriot Tech Center in the Lobby and is a free concert followed by a signing and reception party with Lande and producer, Cookie Marenco.
Blue Coast Records will also be highlighted in the Audiotion room at the conference. Other events include Marenco as a panelist at the Digital Pavillion on Friday.
For more information contact Blue Coast Records, 650 591 6857 or visit the websites...
www.bluecoastrecords.com
www.audiofest.net
www.festivalink.net
www.thelsagroup.com
www.audiotion.com
Unique music from known high quality recordings will feature artists from various genres. "Garbage in, garbage out", says Marenco, "what's the point of high fidelity music if the original recording is less than stellar".
Blue Coast Records will also host a special evening of solo piano with legendary talent, Art Lande. The performance will be a celebration of the Blue Coast Records release called, While She Sleeps, a solo piano recording featuring Mr. Lande. The performance is at 7pm at the Marriot Tech Center in the Lobby and is a free concert followed by a signing and reception party with Lande and producer, Cookie Marenco.
Blue Coast Records will also be highlighted in the Audiotion room at the conference. Other events include Marenco as a panelist at the Digital Pavillion on Friday.
For more information contact Blue Coast Records, 650 591 6857 or visit the websites...
www.bluecoastrecords.com
www.audiofest.net
www.festivalink.net
www.thelsagroup.com
www.audiotion.com
Friday, August 01, 2008
In Nashville Recording with Blue Coast Artist, Rob Ickes!
Rob Ickes, one of the few Dobro masters and Blue Coast artist extraordinare, brought Cookie Marenco to Nashville to record the debut project for his label, Resorevolution Records. The recording features Rob on Dobro, Michael Alvey (piano) and RobinElla (on vocals). The music was played live in the studio and will have a unique 'jazz/country/swing' to it.
Rob chose Wildwood Recording in Franklin, Tennessee to capture the performances being one of the few studios that has 2" tape, a great sounding grand piano and wonderful acoustics in the room. Cookie brought her arsenal of proprietary silver cable and Rob's 'special' mics to the session. She was assisted by facility owner, Brendan Harkin, a well known engineer/producer/musician in his own right.
Cookie will return to OTR with the tapes en route for mixing and high res files for backup. The album should be completed and available later this year. We're all looking forward to some sneak peeks of this recording!
Rob chose Wildwood Recording in Franklin, Tennessee to capture the performances being one of the few studios that has 2" tape, a great sounding grand piano and wonderful acoustics in the room. Cookie brought her arsenal of proprietary silver cable and Rob's 'special' mics to the session. She was assisted by facility owner, Brendan Harkin, a well known engineer/producer/musician in his own right.
Cookie will return to OTR with the tapes en route for mixing and high res files for backup. The album should be completed and available later this year. We're all looking forward to some sneak peeks of this recording!
Monday, July 14, 2008
Blue Coast Records Announces a Contest with Sonicbids to find New Talent
Hi all, below is the link to Sonic Bids where we have an open contest for new talent to debut at Blue Coast Records Collection 2. The disc will be recorded in 2009 and released later that year. For details, please click on the link below.
Sonicbids.com
Through the years, we have been exposed to extraordinary talent. It's overwhelming at times. We believe Sonic Bids provides us an interesting solution to organizing the talented artists for us and reaching beyond our usual group. If you have a friend you think is capable of extraordinary studio performances, please send them to our link.
We'll be announcing a decision at the end of Sept 2008.
thanks again!
Cookie Marenco
Sonicbids.com
Through the years, we have been exposed to extraordinary talent. It's overwhelming at times. We believe Sonic Bids provides us an interesting solution to organizing the talented artists for us and reaching beyond our usual group. If you have a friend you think is capable of extraordinary studio performances, please send them to our link.
We'll be announcing a decision at the end of Sept 2008.
thanks again!
Cookie Marenco
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Blue Coast in China!
KC Lau is doing a terrific job for us distributing our Blue Coast Collection in China. We would like to thank him for his efforts and share this review and ad he sent us.
Thanks, KC!
Friday, June 06, 2008
Is the World Ready for a $40 Disc?
From Press Release June 4, 2008
Blue Coast Records and Burnside Distribution announced the debut of the critically acclaimed music disc, Blue Coast Collection, making it now available via brick and mortar and online music outlets for the price of $40 USD. While some have balked at the cost of the disc, the audiophile community has embraced it as some of the most realistic acoustic music recorded to date. Using a proprietary recording technique, Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.), the newly founded San Francisco label creates audio that is holographic. The release is an SACD hybrid disc that has the stereo CD layer, a surround sound SACD layer and an SACD two-track layer on one disc.
read more
Blue Coast Records and Burnside Distribution announced the debut of the critically acclaimed music disc, Blue Coast Collection, making it now available via brick and mortar and online music outlets for the price of $40 USD. While some have balked at the cost of the disc, the audiophile community has embraced it as some of the most realistic acoustic music recorded to date. Using a proprietary recording technique, Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.), the newly founded San Francisco label creates audio that is holographic. The release is an SACD hybrid disc that has the stereo CD layer, a surround sound SACD layer and an SACD two-track layer on one disc.
read more
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Incredible Review and Response on Home Cinema.fr Blog!
Home Cinema in English
Hi Friends, one of our fans, Guy Bollore, bought the Blue Coast Collection SACD from what he read on this French website and forum. I found the google translator and asked Guy to post a note for me in French to offer thanks for all the kind words about the disc.
The power of the internet is amazing! People responded so positively to my visit, Jean Claude Reynaud wrote in. It brought an incredible flurry of activity for both Jean and myself and amazing responses that led to France becoming the number one country to visit our site overtaking even the USA! Amazing.
The fans at Home Cinema especially like Jane Selkye and Garret Brennan. I expect they had d flurry of activity at their website, too.
The internet is an incredible tool. It brings together people from around the world to unite in what they are passionate about. Music has no language barriers.
Hi Friends, one of our fans, Guy Bollore, bought the Blue Coast Collection SACD from what he read on this French website and forum. I found the google translator and asked Guy to post a note for me in French to offer thanks for all the kind words about the disc.
The power of the internet is amazing! People responded so positively to my visit, Jean Claude Reynaud wrote in. It brought an incredible flurry of activity for both Jean and myself and amazing responses that led to France becoming the number one country to visit our site overtaking even the USA! Amazing.
The fans at Home Cinema especially like Jane Selkye and Garret Brennan. I expect they had d flurry of activity at their website, too.
The internet is an incredible tool. It brings together people from around the world to unite in what they are passionate about. Music has no language barriers.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Mid February Blue Coast Newsletter
Hello friends! I hope the New Year finds you well! The last month has been incredible with so much energy. CES and THE Show were spectacular. In early February, our friend, Brenda Vaughn visited us from Japan. She's an American native now living in Tokyo. On that same day, we had the largest number of Japanese visitor since our website debuted. For the first time, Japan overtook France as the country where we received the most visits. Next week, we will debut our website in 9 languages, including Japanese, simple Chinese and Korean.
This morning I woke to a flurry of activity from our online store. A review came out in France online.
French Review on Home Cinema
As I do with all purchases online, I respond with questions about how they heard about us and was given the link by a wonderful person named Guy. I found a google translator and managed to read the review and write a response. Guy was kind enough to post if for me since I didn't know how to join in French. What better day than to be surrounded by many adoring French men who buy my disk! There are certainly a lot of problems with our lives dominated by computers, but having so many friends in a community who loves your music is not one of them!
More updates at my personal blog:
www.cookiemarenco.com
You can receive an RSS feed, if you like. There I discuss all kinds of topics that are on my mind.
We're looking forward to our 2nd release in Spring 2008. Check back to our website often. Please feel free to send emails and stay in touch!
Cookie
This morning I woke to a flurry of activity from our online store. A review came out in France online.
French Review on Home Cinema
As I do with all purchases online, I respond with questions about how they heard about us and was given the link by a wonderful person named Guy. I found a google translator and managed to read the review and write a response. Guy was kind enough to post if for me since I didn't know how to join in French. What better day than to be surrounded by many adoring French men who buy my disk! There are certainly a lot of problems with our lives dominated by computers, but having so many friends in a community who loves your music is not one of them!
More updates at my personal blog:
www.cookiemarenco.com
You can receive an RSS feed, if you like. There I discuss all kinds of topics that are on my mind.
We're looking forward to our 2nd release in Spring 2008. Check back to our website often. Please feel free to send emails and stay in touch!
Cookie
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Backstage at Cirque de Soleil with Derek Jones
Top left to right, John La Grou (founder Millennia Media), Derek Jones (bassist, KA, Cirque de Soleil), Patrick O'Connor (manager, Blue Coast Records),
Front, Cookie Marenco (founder, Blue Coast Records).
During CES, Derek invited us to a performance of KA. The show is visually stunning and magical as you watch floating stages move sideways over 12 stories of open air. Derek gave us an incredible tour behind the scenes and detailed the mechanics of how it was done. We met monitor engineer, Mike Atwood, who showed us how he tracks 230 individual wireless monitors.
KA is playing at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas.
Derek can be heard on hundreds of recordings, having been on many OTR sessions and touring with Nickel Creek and Jerry Douglass. He's recorded with Blue Coast artists Rob Ickes and Tony Furtado.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
See You at THE SHOW! Laufer Teknik booth! Unreleased material debut!
Hi All, come look for us at the Laufer Teknik booth and introduce yourself! Our fans come from countries all over the world, and while we may not understand what you're saying, we all speak the same language. We LOVE great music and sound.
A 5 song disc with 3 unreleased songs will be available at the Laufer Tekniks booth. Pick one up, drop off a business card, have us sign your Blue Coast Collection disc. We'll be there.
Cookie
A 5 song disc with 3 unreleased songs will be available at the Laufer Tekniks booth. Pick one up, drop off a business card, have us sign your Blue Coast Collection disc. We'll be there.
Cookie
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