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██▓▀ Album......[ Opus Mixtum ▀▓██
▄ █▓█ █ Label......[ Carrott Top Reocrds █ █▓█ ▄
█▒█▓█▄▀ Catalog #..[ SAKI041 ▀▄█▓█▒█
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▓▓█▓▀ ██ Language...[ English ██ ▀▓█▓▓
▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2008-05-17 ████▄ ▀
▄ ▀ ▓█▓ Store Date.[ 2008-02-12 ▓█▓ ▀ ▄
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▀█▓▀ Quality....[ 189 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo ▀▓█▀
▄ █▓█▄▓█▓ Url........[ http://www.carrottoprecords.com ▓█▓▄█▓█ ▄
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█▓ Disc 1 ▓█
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█▓ 01 Tambo Hope 1:10 ▓█
█▓ 02 RPM 2:15 ▓█
█▓ 03 Shipshape 3:53 ▓█
█▓ 04 Turn It On Me 4:33 ▓█
█▓ 05 Miss Me Bliss 4:14 ▓█
█▓ 06 King Me 2:35 ▓█
█▓ 07 I Know 3:42 ▓█
█▓ 08 Steel G 3:46 ▓█
█▓ 09 Needle And The Eye 3:17 ▓█
█▓ 10 Emphatic 1:35 ▓█
█▓ 11 1-2-1 3:47 ▓█
█▓ 12 Red Balloon Waltz 5:36 ▓█
█▓ 13 The Moor 4:11 ▓█
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█▓ 44:34 ▓█
█▓ Disc 2 ▓█
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█▓ 01 Hasten 3:52 ▓█
█▓ 02 It's Not About You 2:59 ▓█
█▓ 03 Pennants And Flags 3:58 ▓█
█▓ 04 The Gate Closed 4:38 ▓█
█▓ 05 On The Humble 4:13 ▓█
█▓ 06 Arrowhead Syrup 5:26 ▓█
█▓ 07 Turn The Page 3:50 ▓█
█▓ 08 That's The Way It Is 2:48 ▓█
█▓ 09 March Echo 2:27 ▓█
█▓ 10 Time Creeps 4:42 ▓█
█▓ 11 Crawl 4:46 ▓█
█▓ 12 You/I 3:04 ▓█
█▓ 13 Tierra Del Fuego 9:08 ▓█
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█▓ 55:51 ▓█
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█░█▒ One day, Antietam lead guitarist Tara Key ▒█░█
█░█▒ discovered her name online in a horse race in ▒█░█
█░█▒ Finland. Race results for a trotter named "Tara ▒█░█
█░█▒ Key" were in Finnish, but Tara Key the guitarist ▒█░█
█░█▒ found the owner of Tara Key the horse and dropped ▒█░█
█░█▒ him an e-mail in Lithuania. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Did the horseÆs name have anything to do with Tara ▒█░█
█░█▒ the guitarist? No, back came the reply from ▒█░█
█░█▒ Vidiskiai, I am sorry it is not so... However, ▒█░█
█░█▒ continued the e-mail, I do love your music. This is ▒█░█
█░█▒ a true story. Swear. And kind of odd, since Tara ▒█░█
█░█▒ has only put out two records under her own name and ▒█░█
█░█▒ neither was released in Lithuania. ▒█░█
█░█▒ ▒█░█
█░█▒ But Antietam has always popped up in unexpected ▒█░█
█░█▒ places. And Antietam has often been misunderstood. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ This is no oneÆs fault but our own. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ When we chose the name Antietam for our band over ▒█░█
█░█▒ 20 years ago, we never realized how often it would ▒█░█
█░█▒ be mispronounced, misspelled, misunderstood, or ▒█░█
█░█▒ just met with befuddled stares of ôHuh?ö In naming ▒█░█
█░█▒ our band after the bloodiest day in American ▒█░█
█░█▒ history, we didnÆt think we were being obscure, but ▒█░█
█░█▒ we proceeded to see Antietam billed as Antidam, ▒█░█
█░█▒ Antetam, Antietem, Anteetam, Antitam, or even as ▒█░█
█░█▒ Auntie Em. Imagine opening the paper or pulling up ▒█░█
█░█▒ to a marquee and finding your bloody band name ▒█░█
█░█▒ changed into the lovely auntie in The Wizard of Oz. ▒█░█
█░█▒ In the Civil War, Union troops named battles after ▒█░█
█░█▒ the nearest body of water like Antietam Creek; ▒█░█
█░█▒ Confederate troops used the nearest town, making ▒█░█
█░█▒ Antietam the Battle of Sharpsburg in the South. ▒█░█
█░█▒ Only the astute D. Boon of the Minutemen and TaraÆs ▒█░█
█░█▒ dad pointed out the irony of southerners calling ▒█░█
█░█▒ themselves Antietam. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ We just have to admit it: Antietam is a weird band. ▒█░█
█░█▒ ThereÆs nobody really like us. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ It doesnÆt help that our influences range from Neil ▒█░█
█░█▒ Young, the Clash, the Stooges, Dead Moon, Eno and ▒█░█
█░█▒ the Raiders to Chinese Opera, John Ruskin, Albert ▒█░█
█░█▒ Pinkham Ryder, action painting, hitting the ôsweet ▒█░█
█░█▒ spotö in multiple sports, and the childhood game of ▒█░█
█░█▒ 4-square. Yeah, two of us are down home folks from ▒█░█
█░█▒ Kentucky...but Tara once won a David Bowie ▒█░█
█░█▒ look-alike contest in New York City in the Year of ▒█░█
█░█▒ the Diamond Dogs. Say what? Yes, we have a picture ▒█░█
█░█▒ to prove it. One reviewer of Victory Park said the ▒█░█
█░█▒ remarkable thing about Antietam was that we didnÆt ▒█░█
█░█▒ show any evidence of any influences. And we rather ▒█░█
█░█▒ enjoyed that. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Our new work, Opus Mixtum, represents a departure ▒█░█
█░█▒ for us, seventeen years into the lineup of Tara Key ▒█░█
█░█▒ on guitar, Josh Madell on drums, and Tim Harris on ▒█░█
█░█▒ bass. It is our first double CD and we are excited ▒█░█
█░█▒ by Carrot TopÆs dedication to total sound quality ▒█░█
█░█▒ with the release of a triple vinyl LP edition. But ▒█░█
█░█▒ beyond quantity and quality, it our vision that has ▒█░█
█░█▒ expanded on Opus Mixtum. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ The title comes from a method of laying brick in ▒█░█
█░█▒ ancient Rome that combined rectangular and diagonal ▒█░█
█░█▒ patterns, but we use it to connote the mix of three ▒█░█
█░█▒ styles: Antietam rock, the acoustic pop of Tara Key ▒█░█
█░█▒ solo releases, and the instrumental soundtracks of ▒█░█
█░█▒ our lives. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Antietam has always been noted for TaraÆs ▒█░█
█░█▒ pyrotechnics on electric guitar. In 1980, The ▒█░█
█░█▒ Village Voice called Tara ôthe best female ▒█░█
█░█▒ guitarist this side of the Atlantic.ö In 2005, the ▒█░█
█░█▒ Voice left out the gender thing and said, ôDid I ▒█░█
█░█▒ mention that Tara Key is the best guitarist in the ▒█░█
█░█▒ world?ö TaraÆs style and the energy of the Antietam ▒█░█
█░█▒ live show have defined the character of our albums ▒█░█
█░█▒ over the years û from the 80s lineup with two bass ▒█░█
█░█▒ guitars on Antietam and Music from Elba to the ▒█░█
█░█▒ leaner early 90s stylings of Burgoo and Everywhere ▒█░█
█░█▒ Outside to the three-piece power rock of our live ▒█░█
█░█▒ album from CBGBs, then Rope-a-Dope and 2004Æs ▒█░█
█░█▒ Victory Park. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ We all explored life outside of Antietam at points ▒█░█
█░█▒ as well, and these extracurriculars have a lot to ▒█░█
█░█▒ do with the variety on this album: from TaraÆs two ▒█░█
█░█▒ well-received ôsoloö albums released on Homestead ▒█░█
█░█▒ in the mid-90Æs (neither album was solo by any ▒█░█
█░█▒ stretch of the imagination, and both Tim and Josh ▒█░█
█░█▒ figured prominently, but these records allowed Tara ▒█░█
█░█▒ to explore a more acoustic, songwriterly approach ▒█░█
█░█▒ to her craft, with a coterie of sidemen on strings ▒█░█
█░█▒ and keys and horns), to her instrumental ▒█░█
█░█▒ collaboration with Rick Rizzo of Chicago stalwarts ▒█░█
█░█▒ Eleventh Dream Day (resulting in the Dark Edson ▒█░█
█░█▒ Tiger album released in 2000 on Thrill Jockey), to ▒█░█
█░█▒ TimÆs ôlead celloö work with local psychedelic pop ▒█░█
█░█▒ band The Special Pillow, to JoshÆs songwriting (and ▒█░█
█░█▒ drumming) for pop-punk girl group Tralala. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ As snatches of melodies from these projects showed ▒█░█
█░█▒ up on soundtracks as varied as the kidsÆ show Pete ▒█░█
█░█▒ and Pete on Nickelodeon, the NPR radio show This ▒█░█
█░█▒ American Life, and the soundtrack for a campaign to ▒█░█
█░█▒ build a memorial at the WTC site, we wanted to ▒█░█
█░█▒ expand the moods, or the modes, on our Antietam ▒█░█
█░█▒ records. Why show only one side of ourselves in our ▒█░█
█░█▒ band? ▒█░█
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█░█▒ After recording Victory Park in a beach house, this ▒█░█
█░█▒ time we stayed home and turned to hotshot producer ▒█░█
█░█▒ (and now auxiliary live band member) Josh Clark at ▒█░█
█░█▒ Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, to wrestle with TaraÆs ▒█░█
█░█▒ signature sound like a line of discerning producers ▒█░█
█░█▒ before him (Wharton Tiers, John Siket, Jon ▒█░█
█░█▒ Williams, James Murphy, Ira and Georgia from Yo La ▒█░█
█░█▒ Tengo, Tara Jane OÆNeil). We were impressed at all ▒█░█
█░█▒ the vinyl in twenty-something ClarkÆs record ▒█░█
█░█▒ collection. He did such a bang-up job of recording ▒█░█
█░█▒ our three-piece rock-outs, that we enlisted him to ▒█░█
█░█▒ help stitch the instrumentals and lush acoustics ▒█░█
█░█▒ into the Opus Mixtum quilt as well. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Then we pieced in Mark HowellÆs horns, Katie ▒█░█
█░█▒ GentileÆs violins, and Rick Rizzo on stunt guitar. ▒█░█
█░█▒ The album flows effortlessly through its varying ▒█░█
█░█▒ moods, instrumental passages disappearing into ▒█░█
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