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Cookie Marenco

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Instruments
  
Piano, oboe, sitar

Role
  
Composer

Labels
  
Blue Coast Records

Origin
  
United States of America


Website
  
cookiemarenco.com

Record label
  
Blue Coast Records

Name
  
Cookie Marenco

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Occupation(s)
  
Engineer, producer, composer

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Organizations founded
  
Blue Coast Records


Cookie Marenco is an engineer/producer/composer with more than 20 years experience in the music industry. She is the founder of OTR Studios and Blue Coast Records, and has engineered or produced five Grammy-nominated records, several Gold records and an Academy Award-winning documentary. Marenco, along with French engineer Jean Claude Reynaud, developed Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.), a proprietary recording technique. She mostly works with 2" analog tape with Dolby SR as a multi-track format, but also has expertise in the latest digital recording technologies.

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Engineering and producing

Marenco's artist credits include Max Roach, Bryan "Brain" Mantia, Kenny Aronoff, Steve Smith, Brady Blade, Tony Furtado, Tony Trischka, Dirk Powell, Rob Ickes, Charlie Haden, Tony Levin, Steve Rodby, Buckethead, Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Ernie Watts, Glen Moore, Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Jennings, Pat DiNizio, Kristin Hersch, Brad Mehldau, Matt Rollings, Kevin Kern, Art Lande, Clara Ponty, Chanticleer, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mark Isham and Michael Tolcher.

Her production and engineering skills can be found on projects for Monterey Jazz Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Marinfest, Midem, Hard Rock Cafe, Windham Hill Records, Verve, Rounder Records, Om Records, Sony, Warner Bros. and others.

Blue Coast Records

Marenco and French engineer Jean Claude Reynaud founded Blue Coast Records in 2007. The label is known for using the Direct Stream Digital hi-resolution format, using the labels’ proprietary recording technique Extended Sound Environment (E.S.E.). Artists include Kai Eckhardt, Tony Furtado, Rob Ickes, and others. The label is closely associated with OTR Studios, a recording studio founded by Marenco located on the San Francisco Peninsula.

References

Cookie Marenco Wikipedia