Ready To Make Some Important Career Choices?
Career Records was launched in the fall of 2002 by Deniz Tek and Ron Sanchez as an outlet for their many musical projects. The label is fully self contained, with a small circle of of musicians and artists who lend their talents as needed. God's Little Ear Acre is the in house recording studio where much of the work is carried out.
The goal has always been to work with select group of artists we respect. Roy Loney, Penny Ikinger, Angie Pepper, and The Plaintiffs are all musicians we have known for years and whose work we hold in high regard. It's important to us that we give our full attention to every release. While we might like to have signed others, our small roster, Donovan's Brain and The Soul Movers are the priorities for us at the moment.
What about the music? Deniz Tek is well known for his work with Radio Birdman and all the groups that followed. Ron Sanchez has led the psychedelic "collective", Donovan's Brain since 1986. Between the two of them, there are enough musical influences to dominate the turntable at any party. The Career philosophy is deeply rooted in the traditions of pioneer like Atlantic, Stax, Motown, Island, and UA; right down to the matching suits and dance lessons. Deniz and Ron have worked closely with all the artists; producing and performing on the records. Donovan's Brain and Deniz serve as the house band, backing Penny Ikinger and Angie Pepper on stage and in the studio.
Career Records is also maintains a mail order shop, offering all the the Career releases, and a number of other related items. We also administer distribution for The Last Of The Bad Men and Richard Treece. You will find Career Records music on CD Baby and iTunes, Amazon.com and a dozen other digital platforms if you prefer to shop there.
As well as the shop and artist information, you will find photo galleries, essays about what we do and reviews of artists and music we like, Ron's radio show play lists, and a news page that is updated regularly. Neither of us have time for blogs or another MySpace page, anything we have to say probably ends up here.
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31 January, 2010
More Reviews - Future Planning
More reviews of Fires Which Burnt Brightly and On The InSide have appeared on line this week. Michel Toland has posted a short review of the new Donovan's Brain in his column at Big Takeover on line and Anders Svendsen gives The Soul Movers a great review at Luna Kafe. More at our reviews page, and links.
Deniz has begun recording demos for his next solo album Two tracks were recorded at Bob Brown's, with Steve Brown sitting in the drum stool. I'll join them next weekend for another session. While reviewing the recordings, I remembered a group of demos Den had recorded in 2004, for Zeno Beach. When we listend, we found early sketches for Heyday and We've Come So Far. Two other ideas were recorded for Zeno, but didn't make the final running order. A fiftj piece was never pursued, but is now back on the table. By the end of the evening there were at least six songs under consideration for the new DTG album. The band on the record will include Bob and Steve Brown and myself. I'm sure that list could grow before the album is done.
To round out the day, we worked on a new film music piece which may be called Tomorrow Never Snows.
20 January, 2010
Film Music
The Armchair Explorers page has been updated. The film music currently being created can now be heard here. This Donovan's Brain side project has existed in some form since the earliest days. A few tracks appeared on Eclipse And Debris and Tiny Crustacean Lightshow. Thinking Of Neutrons, on Fires Which Burnt Brightly may also be the work of Armchair Explorers. The dividing line is blurred so no one could give you a difinitive answer as to where one ends and the other begins. You will have to use your ears to decide. Armchair Explorers currently have the studio locked out, and are producing music non-stop. Archival material is also being made available. Listen here. Video pages for The Armchair Explorers and Donovan's Brain and friends have been created as well.
12 January, 2010
Deniz Tek Online
Deniz Tek is a singer, guitarist and songwriter founder of Radio Birdman. Deniz has taken up the virtual pen, the results can be seen at the new Deniz Tek Blog. Photos, history, diary's and the latest news. No more rumors and gossip, just the facts. Read it.
DenizTek-Art.com features the graphic art and sculptures which Deniz has produced over the last few years. Paintings, photography and ironwork sculptures are on display in several galleries.
10 January, 2010
New Year, Good News
There has been a steady stream of reviews and airplay reports coming our way. You will find the new Reviews Page here. It's linked on the navagation bar under News. This page will be updated as more notices are printed or posted. Let us know if you see anything we should know about.
Last Update: Tuesday, 2 February, 2010 2:24