New Release: The Light & The Fury from The Outernet (led by Phil Turcio)

 

The Light & The Fury from The Outernet (led by Phil Turcio) 
Release Date: July 30, 2025
Website: https://www.theouternetband.com
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The Light and the Fury from The Outernet band is the definition of jazz fusion, merging jazz improvisation with rock, pop, R&B, and soul.  Listeners will hear all these elements synthesized into a stunning amalgam.  Helmed by bandleader and keyboardist Phil Turcio, The Outernet band, along with Turcio, is comprised of Pete Drummond on drums, Pete Mollica on bass, and Emilio Kormanic on guitar.  The band's eclectic blend crackles with an elasticity liken to Pat Metheny, slowly burns with the emotive sensibilities emblematic of Carlos Santana, and gyrates with a feral vitality reminiscent of vintage Rush.  The band whittles searing hooks and chord progressions into blazing infernos, amassing an electric synergy that prompts listeners to stop in their tracks, and turn their heads in the direction of the cavalcade of sonic raptures.  The music can stop traffic in mid-stride, projecting a massive, flashing light show, cinematic in scope, prismatic in complexion, and mesmerizing in stature.  Each melodic motif communicates a sentiment, an impression, an image in the listener's mind, as though the collection is a soundtrack to a rousing story.  Shaping the music into a pop/rock symphony, The Outernet band puts on a spectacular sonic performance.  The recording's press release states, "The Outernet’s journey is inextricably linked to technology and its embrace of the digital realm."  Turcio's command of the technology gives the recording its stout sound and enthralling attraction.