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Stein and Gottehrer relaunch Blue Horizon
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 27 January 2010
One last MIDEM-related announcement, and industry veterans Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer used the Cannes fest to announce they are reviving the Blue Horizon record label, the blues label originally run by British record producer Mike Vernon in the sixties, and perhaps best known for releasing the music of Fleetwood Mac.
CBS were Vernon’s initial US label partners in his Blue Horizon venture, and as a result Sony Music (who bought CBS Records in 1987 of course) now control the label’s original catalogue. However Stein and Gottehrer’s Sire Records later bought into the label, and eventually took control of it, spearheading a number of vinyl re-releases of Blue Horizon albums once Vernon had stepped back from the operation.
The all new Blue Horizon label will be a digital only venture, run out of the New York HQ of Gottehrer’s more recent music venture, digital distribution set up The Orchard. They will not have access to the Sony-controlled Blue Horizon catalogue, but hope to sign and release new music that employs the original Blue Horizon ethos. Said music will be distributed by The Orchard, though Stein’s current employers – Warner Music – may also get involved on some releases.
Gottehrer told Billboard that while both he and Stein were very happy with their current companies, “the real reason for doing this is both Seymour and I want to get back to functioning in a creative way [together] and discovering and working with artists”.
