Not necessarily about a geological period of long- term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, but more of a personal cooling down.

Ice Age

This is a demo version of a song that we just started playing out live a few months ago. The title is named after a segment in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams. There is an old legend in Japan that states that when the sun is shining through the rain, the kitsune (foxes) have their weddings. 

Sunshine Through The Rain

We're mad as March Hares...

Alice says: "The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be raving mad - at least not so mad as it was in March."

Note: A long-held view is that the hare will behave strangely and excitedly throughout its breeding season, which in Europe is the month of March (but which in fact extends over several months beyond March). This odd behaviour includes boxing at other hares, jumping vertically for seemingly no reason and generally displaying abnormal behaviour.

March Hares

A spacey take on a Christmas carol classic. Recorded on a 4 track cassette recorder sometime in the early 90's for DJ Bob Portella's Christmas Chaos show on 91.7 WLFR Pomona, NJ:  http://www.myspace.com/christmaschaosradioshow and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christmas-Chaos-Radio-Show/40862589189

Silent Night

This one started out being written back on Thanksgiving of 2009 and reworked in 2011. It's not really about the holiday of Thanksgiving at all, but rather just another day of the year where perhaps you find something to be thankful for. 

A Thanksgiving

Juxta Mare is Latin for "by the sea." We are so Mid-Atlantic.

Juxta Mare

Formed in 1988, deardarkhead are based in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area and consist of: Kevin Harrington (guitar) and Robert Weiss (drums). They have been performing as an all instrumental unit with various bass players, since their long term vocalist, Michael Amper, left the group back in 2009. The band takes its name from an Irish poem, "Cean Dubh Dilis" (1867 Sir Samuel Ferguson), about a beautiful girl with black hair.

The group’s sound is openly and proudly Anglophilic, combining both elements of the blissout shoegazer scene and a slightly older vein of post-punk guitar experimentalism, making a rich combination between the two influences. Words like atmospheric, ethereal and dreampop are often used to describe their original guitar driven, psychedelic storm of sound that balances moody textures and shimmering melodies. 

deardarkhead have released five recordings, since forming, on their own Fertile Crescent Records label. Their music has also appeared on various indie compilations from the USA and Japan. Captured Tracks released a retrospective of their early material called Oceanside: 1991-1993 as the second contribution to their Shoegaze Archives series at the end of 2011. The band joined Saint Marie Records, a label specializing in shoegaze and dreampop music, in 2015. Their first recording for the label, Strange Weather, was released in March 2016.

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