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Laika & the Cosmonauts -
Melodic instrumental rockular music with furious and atmospheric visual vibes.
Handcrafted locally in Finland for universal audiences!
Constantly influencing the instrumental evolution.
Vi Rokk!! |
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| 07.10.2008 |
Dave Marsh seems to like our stuff, yees? :) |
The following went out to the 55,000 email subscribers of Rock & Rap Confidential.
RRC is the monthly newsletter from Grammy award winning writer Dave Marsh. Dave was
also the founder of legendary music magazine CREEM and has a show on Sirius radio.
Cosmopolis, Laika and the Cosmonauts (Yep Roc)-The final album from the Finnish
sci-fi surf band leaps out of the box with "Metropolis Theme" and never relents. In
a just world, these guys would have earned Grammys, Oscars, and the keys to Surf
City. As it is they remain a rarified taste for those who understand the minimalist
brilliance of an aesthetic rooted in "Malaguena," Link Wray, Mars Needs Women (the
movie), and the late night movie presentations of Zacherle, which must have reached
Helsinki through a cosmic probe, arguably the most worthwhile in history. |
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| 27.08.2008 |
Laika & the Cosmonauts NEW CD: COSMOPOLIS 1988-2008 (YepRoc, GrandPop) |
| 23.04.2008 |
Laika & the Cosmonauts will call it a day in November 2008 |
A MESSAGE FROM LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS
There sometimes comes a time in a band's career when things are still great,
but you can sense that the natural lifespan is nearing the end. It´s
nobody´s fault, there´s no reason for it, it just happens. That´s
where we are with Laika & The Cosmonauts now. We love the band &
music and are very proud of all the gigs and records we´ve done. We
don´t wanna our good career to go where we end up being a bored/boring bar band that plays too few gigs to keep it tight, with the same songs all the time and gradually keeps getting worse and worse and in the process start hating the music and each other. So...
.. when we release the compilation, it will be , not only to
celebrate our 20th anniversary, but also to enhance the enjoyment of our farewell tour
and make it an appropriate finale for the 20 year on the road - we intend to have
fun and play great gigs! We´ll do as many shows as possible in
Finland in august-november and then october in USA.
We´ll be playing the east coast, hopefully the west coast too and then play our final gigs at
the Continental Club in Austin, our home away from home (oct 31st and nov 1st) and...after which we'll have a few beers and relax, you know...
THANK´S EVERYBODY! JOIN US FOR THE CELEBRATION! |
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