Written by Cookie
Sunday, 17 February 2008
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Hi friends, it's been awhile since I've been in touch. Thought I'd send a note. Hope you send a noteThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it about what you're doing also! Got a new home base where you can visit all the activities at once! You can bookmark there for a future read, signup for an RSS feed when I publish again or check in for the next obnoxious article i'll write for EQ.
Most of you know I've been producing again at OTR and have trained a whole new group of engineers. While I've gone back to analog tape and I'm LOVING it, our new crew brings life to our computer, internet and graphics ability. The site needs some rejuvenating since it still has pictures of the red carpet, now removed, but check back soon! Our staff, led by Patrick O'Connor (GM, IT, computer systems, graphics, web management), now has Tim as our new house engineer, Ezra in sales and Josh in new media, all capable of engineering and interfacing with the challenges of internet audio. Like the days of the View, the new crew (Ezra, Tim and Josh) have started their own production company offering great rates out of OTR called Destination Sound.
Next month, we will be opening the top floor for additional production rooms available for long term rental and adding Final Cut Pro. With YouTube and MySpace we felt that adding video services was a good move. EQ magazine has used us for educational videos taking advantage of our video screen green walls. Look for OTR Studios or the piano micing section of EQ TV. Alex de Grassi came by to shoot a video playing on a 39 stringed harp guitar.
Last year we released our proprietary silver cable for mic and speaker use to great acclaim. We manufactured a limited run of high end ipod/computer cables that greatly increase the frequency response. Still some available if you are interested. We've also taken to selling the gear of manufacturers we love (like Millennia) and vintage synthesizers/gear. There's a whole world of geekdom out there and we love it! Call us at 650 595 8475 or Patrick 650 759 1357.
Blue Coast Records had a remarkable first year. As a tribute to Jean Marie Reynaud's 40th year in audio (he's father of my production partner, Jean Claude) we debuted last March at the Paris HiFi Show receiving incredible reviews. Acoustic Sounds, a HiFi resellers took over a targeted sales campaign to HiFi dealers internationally. We sold out our first pressing of the SACD in 6 weeks. At the New York HiFi Show and Rocky Mountain HiFi Show, we made many new friends in the manufacturing world who's high performance gear benefitted from our ultimate audio quality. At year's end, we were sponsored by Laufer Teknik to attend THE SHOW at CES. In mid March, Blue Coast Collection will have it's USA street release through Burnside Distribution. Our second release (Art Lande- Solo Piano Lullabies) is ready for manufacturing and we have 2 more to follow.
Since I'm the queen of dead formats and cutting edge internet technology, I'm pleased to announce we will be releasing the Blue Coast Collection on vinyl later this year. Meanwhile, if you'd like a sneak peak at what's coming and what's been, here's five songs you can download for a penny! We also have a video montage of the Blue Coast Collection. Many thanks to Cathy Stonehill at Phoenix Edit and Jim Farber, who edited the video that brings back so many wonderful memories of the recording. It's 4 minutes and takes a long time to download, but worth it. More to come!
The last gap we had to fill in out plot for acoustic music world domination was the support team that takes care of all the details allowing us to create the music and get it to the fans. With the bottom dropping out of the music industry methods of publicity, promotion, and sales have changed radically. In January 2008 we unveiled Acoustic Arts International to fill this gap experienced by ourselves, most of the musicians I work with, and just about everyone who is trying to have a career in music. If you're overwhelmed with the details of your music career and have been thinking about hiring an assistant, this might be the service you're looking for.
Hiring Penny Sur to be the Grande Dame of organization, publicity and promotion has been a godsend. Patrick works on the internet interfaces, graphics and structure. I oversee as artist representative and brand enforcer reaching out to my many industry friends for advise or special services. Like the major labels, we will supervise a responsible group of interns who carry the load of the details and keep costs down. Response has been incredible. We're already working on tour publicity, web management, marketing tools, graphics, mailing list organization, newsletters, and press releases for a number of our artists ... barely having time to put up our own website!
Below is a shortened description off our website. I'm really happy to include these management, marketing and sales functions that encourage long relationships with people we know and love. We're also thrilled to be a triple bottomline company that interfaces all our artists with non profit associations of merit.
Thanks to all for a terrific 2007 and more to come in 2008.
Cookie Marenco
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