Leírás
Deep Funk, Funk, Jazz-Funk, Lounge, Psychedelic Soul,
RÓZSASZÍNŰ (örvénylő, kavargó hatású) bakelit lemez LP kiadvány, 2026-os album.
Ghost Funk Orchestra (GFO) returns to our orbit with ours Yours in The Ranks of Death, their most grounded and personal collection of songs to date. Reflective and ethereal, the fifth full-length album from Ghost Funk Orchestra finds composer/mastermind Seth Applebaum paring down the sounds and conceptual underpinnings — providing his signature grooves a cleaner pocket to glide across the turntable. Like a summer sun’s rays slowly atomizing morning fog, what comes into sharper relief are the angles and crystalline figures that have made Ghost Funk Orchestra the groovy modern psychedelic soul jazz boogaloo backbone of Karma Chief Records since joining the label in 2018.
It would be easy to mistake the sharper focus of Yours in The Ranks of Death as an exercise in concision… until you hear a track like “A Vision of Crimson.” One of the longest and most ambitious songs in the Ghost Funk repertoire, the 7-minute closing opus is as expansive as any from Ghost Funk Orchestra, shaping its strut with a gradual sweep and swirling interplay of brass and winds that marries Return to Forever with Joe Bataan’s Fania-fed soul, with a blended sound that only putting live horns into a room together can offer. Zivic handles the lead vocals on “Crimson” as well as “Where Is My Love” and “Ocotillo.”
From the vocalists to the horns, Applebaum made sure this album was cast with some of his touring musicians in mind. “Both of their voices [Hartman and Zivic] are incredible…when I was casting these songs, I wanted to make sure that these singers who have been performing with us live on a pretty regular basis feel like they have some kind of ownership in the project,” – says Applebaum. “Similarly with the horns, it’s like I put together a section of all the horn players that have been regular parts of the live band as of late…It’s like this is my world; I invite a few people in at a time…so that they feel a little bit less like just hired guns for the live show.”
From the mind of Seth Applebaum to the mixing desk at his home studio, the path Ghost Funk Orchestra traverses on Yours in the Ranks of Death keeps the journey moving forward while traveling inward. You would be hard-pressed to find introspection this propulsive, poetic, or funky.
YouTube video:
„Leave Me Alone”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMisHUv2GME
GFO Official: https://www.youtube.com/@ghostfunkorchestra/videos
Felvételek:
LP:
1. In The Ranks Of Death Pt 1
2. Ocotillo 04:40
3. King Of The Lower East Side
4. Yours 03:28
5. A Hell Below
6. Where Is My Love?
7. In The Ranks Of Death Pt 2
8. Leave Me Alone 03:30 video
9. Phlox
10. Opal
11. A Vision Of Crimson.
