It's no surprise
that six of the eight initial Career Records releases were record entierly
or in part at God's Little Ear Acre/GLEA. By default, GLEA has become the Career in-house recording facility. Career Records and GLEA depend on a small informal network of studios and support facilities to bring you the music. We can recommend all the following establishments to help you with your musical projects. Deniz
Tek and Angie Pepper have done extensive work with David Weyer at his studio DWS in Billings, Montana. It's worth working
with Dave, just to hear his great stories about his time spent in LA back
in the late 60's. DWS is a pretty unique facility, set up in his barn. The Golden Breed, Deniz Tek Group, Angie Pepper, and The Glass Spiders. Contact Dave Weyer at DWS
The Golden Breed in the big room at DWS Egg Studio is in many ways the inspriation for GLEA. I believe the current
location is actually the second Egg. All three of the Longshots studio albums are products of Egg under the direction of Uno, Johnny Sangster and Scott McCaughey. The relaxed and casual atmosphere shows through on these records. Penny Ikinger has Egg on the short list for a studio to produce her next album The list of Egg's clients is pretty long, and includes Sonic Youth, The Nomads and most important, The Presidents Of The United States, who's hit album was recorded by Uno and originally released on Popllama, the house label.
Ant
Farm came to our attention when Richard Treece and Green Ray ventured
to the norht of London to record tracks for their new cd, Fragile World.
When it came time for Richard to add guitars to the Donovan's Brain album, Green Ray has booked time at Ant Farm to record their next cd of all material. It's hoped Richard will also find time to contribute to some new Donovan's Brain recordings. Castle
Studios are located in Utica, New York. The studio occupies an old
church and is a world class facility. Vince Sanchez assissted in the design
and construction of this fabulous studio. Pip McCaslin was recommeded to us by Conrad Uno. His company, Realtime, manufactured
the first "proper" Donovan's Brain release, the cassette Butterfly Wheel. Based on the
suggestion of our US distributor, Career has taken all their business to the
Portland based duplication broker, Cravedog. Our man, Tony Trause,
has given every project his personal attention and delivered every time. They
have an impressive list of clients including our friend Mark Guenther is another old friend from his days as Egg house engineer. He was the man in the seat for the Manband album sessions for Call Down The Moon. He managed to survive three weeks locked in the studio with those famous Welsh ruffians. He now runs Seattle Disc Mastering, the place you would want to take your finished album. Mastering is a lot of magic and hoodoo, that people like myself and Uno prefer to hand over to an expert. The Plaintiffs and Roy Loney's albums were mastered by Mark as well as Donovan's Brain, Eclipse And Debris.
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Since
the late 80's GLEA has been home to Donovan's Brain, but has always operated
as a commercial studio hosting a long list of local and international artists
including Jason Lytle, The Nomads, The Young Fresh Fellows, Sunset Valley, The Onyas,
Richard Booth, Angie Pepper, and Roy Loney.
I was introduced to Conrad Uno by The Young Fresh Fellows. The first
"proper" Donovan's Brain sessions took place here, Follow The Shining
Path on Carelessly Restored Art was produced by Scott McCaughey and
features Jim and Tad from the Fellows. 
Penny
Ikinger chose Hot House to record her stunning debut, Electra.
Owner, Craig Harnath engineered and produced with Penny. In 2002, Radio
Birdman stopped in for a day to record a new songs a a couple of choice covers. Hot House is a analog-digital hybrid studio, running a 24 track
and Pro Tools. Hot House is a small, but fully equipped facility
located in the St Kilda district of Melbourne, Australia, VIC
this was his first choice. Under the watchful eye of Paul Newman, the
work was done in short time. Ant Farm is a small digital studio,
but their work is professional all the way. 
It's
hoped that Career will see some of their artists record here in the future.
For now, you can read much more about Castle at their web site.
Pip
has now expanded his operations to include CD-R dupication, design, and and
CD pressing broker. His personal service has earned him a very good reputation. GLEA has sent many of our clients to Pip for their CDs. No complaints. 
Willy
Vlutin and Richmond Fontaine. When we compared notes, we found that we were
both very please with the service and final product. 