CD Description
Finland's instrumental quartet Laika and The Cosmonauts communicate in the international language of surf music. However, they approach this kind of music in the same way that TheVentures did in their career, which long outlived the heyday of surf. Laika and The Cosmonauts eschew the earliest template of the genre and embrace the range of rock instrumentalstyles that followed in surf's wake.
INSTRUMENTS OF TERROR opens with the theme from the television program "MissionImpossible". The band also steps into the world of film music with Mancini's "Experiment in Terror"; "Psyko", a medley of Bernard Hermann's PSYCHO and VERTIGO themes; and the theme from the surf movie ENDLESS SUMMER. What the band demonstrates in its writing is how effectively this music can be evocative of a place. Their crisply delineated melodies shimmeragainst the rhythmic backdrop in a manner that recalls the sunsets, panoramas, and endless days and nights of life nearthe Arctic Circle.