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.

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

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!

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

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.

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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.