Reviews
by Jon Davis
Published 2025-10-11
The Science of Sound is the third outing for Jason Everett’s Deep Energy Orchestra, following Playing with Fire (2020). It’s another fiery foray into jazz-rock inflected with sounds from India, and it features a large array of musicians varying from track to track, with Everett himself being the only one present on all eight.
The best known of his collaborators are Joe Deninzon (violin), Gary Husband (keyboards), Trey Gunn (Warr guitar), and Adam Holzman (keyboards). Others contribute on strings, percussion, flutes, and vocals. At the jazz fusion end of the spectrum there’s “Captain Quirk,” which is a scorcher; between Deninzon’s violin, Holzman’s synth, and Mark Lettieri’s guitar, the tune flat-out cooks over Everett’s bass and the drums of Don Gunn. On “Dance of the Wood Nymphs,” the group’s original violinist Radhika Iyer takes on a great piece with echoes of Mahavishnu. “The Dancers” sets a somewhat mellower mood, with a lovely melody arranged in unison for wordless vocals, flute, and fretless bass. “Secrets of Subtraction” is another fusion workout, this time with Husband trading licks with guitarist Jimmy Thomas while the rhythm section gets funky in odd meters — I’m interpreting the title as referring to subtraction of beats in the meter. “Fireflies” features the virtuoso mandolin of U. Rajesh. With so much variation in personnel, you might wonder if it all sounds coherent, but Everett’s bass is truly the core of the sound, and he pulls it all together. The Science of Sound is an all-around joy to listen to, a tasty blending of jazz, rock, and India.
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Review: Deep Energy Orchestra - The Science Of Sound (7D Media, 2025) (Psychedelic/Progressive Jazz Rock)
New Underground Music - October 19, 2025 (translated from Dutch)
Deep Energy Orchestra from Seattle, USA, is the band of Jason Everett (Mister E) - bass guitar, Trey Gunn (King Crimson) - lead guitar, V. Selvaganesh (Shakti, Masters Of Percussion) - Indian percussion, Radhiker Iyer - 7-string violin, Joe Deninzon (Kansas) - electric violin, Gary Husband (John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth) - keyboards and drums, and Adam Holzman (Miles Davis) - keyboards. They are supported by a classical string ensemble from Seattle, consisting of Mark Lettieri, U. Rajesh, Mahesh Vinayakram, Radhika Iyer, John Wubbenhorst, and Eric "Doc" Smith, who use violin, viola, and cello.
On October 1, 2018, their debut album, "Playing With Fire," was released on CD, DVD, and digital download. This was followed by "The Return" (CD and digital download, February 21, 2020) and the digital track "Moksha (Contiguous Audio)" (August 3, 2020).
The band released their third album, "The Science Of Sound," on October 24 via 7D Media, as a CD and digital download. This contains eight tracks.
The album opens with "Morning Over Madrid," in which Deep Energy Orchestra begins the music at a slow tempo with a piano section. After two minutes, this accelerates when the rest of the band joins in. This leads to a fantastic progressive jazz-rock number that swings like a train. This is followed by "Dance Of The Wood Nymphs," a fantastically swinging, up-tempo, psychedelic, Eastern-inspired track with an infectious, danceable recurring rhythm, featuring the sitar. Next up are "Captain Quirk," an up-tempo progressive song with a recurring rhythm that swings and incorporates slightly mysterious elements, and "The Dancers," a wonderfully swinging Eastern song with progressive elements and a recurring rhythm.
In "Secrets Of Subtraction," Deep Energy Orchestra presents me with a swinging up-tempo jazz-rock song with a recurring rhythm, and in "Fireflies," the band lets me enjoy a delightful up-tempo progressive rock song with Eastern psychodelic elements, where sitting still is simply not an option.
Following on are "Solar Playground," a piece of space rock that quickly transitions into a progressive jazz-rock song with a medium tempo and a slightly hypnotic recurring rhythm, and "Stargazing," a great progressive folk song with a medium tempo and a catchy rhythm.
Deep Energy Orchestra's "The Science of Sound" contains eight delightful tracks, interweaving progressive jazz-rock, psychedelic rock, folk, and Eastern elements. I thoroughly enjoyed it and wholeheartedly recommend this masterful album to any fan of this genre.
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