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GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA - Gretchen, Berlin
Event by: Club GRETCHEN, Ghost Funk Orchestra
Location: Gretchen, Obentrautstraße 19-21, Berlin - Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
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Ghost Funk Orchestra (Colemine /US) *live*
Doors: 7.30 p.m.
Show: 8.30 p.m.
*Advance sale 12 €/ 18 €/ 24 € plus fees * Box office tba*
VVK Start: August 21st, 2025 12:00 p.m.
Minimum age: 16
Ghost Funk Orchestra (GFO) is the vision of composer and multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum. What began as a one-man studio experiment in 2014 is now an energetic live band with up to ten musicians.
Musically, GFO is a sonic kaleidoscope: soul, psych-rock, salsa and more merge with psychedelic elements, lush brass arrangements and unpredictable time changes. The band delivers hypnotic grooves, warm vintage sounds and cinematic suspense, from gentle and dreamy to explosive and driving. Live, this results in an intense interplay of dense instrumental passages, sweaty funk breaks and charismatic singing, which condenses into an energetic, rousing whirlpool.
Since its founding, GFO has developed over numerous albums from tropically colored psychedelic soul to an increasingly narrative band with complex, multi-layered arrangements. A Song For Paul relies heavily on the handmade, earthy groove, A New Kind of Love also unfolds an opulent sound world between exotica, soul and soundtrack art, and A Trip to the Moon combines vintage sounds with science fiction to create a cinematic sound journey full of psychedelic funk, exotic textures and surf rock vibes - arranged like an orchestral radio play.
This cross-genre experimentation was supported by NPR, Bandcamp, KUTX, Brooklyn Vegan and Earmilk celebrated. The New York blog Post-Trash called it a “psych odyssey of traditional sounds delivered in unconventional ways.” J. Edward Keyes (Bandcamp) praised that GFO “leaves no funk-savvy genre unexplored.”
GFO has already shared the stage with the likes of Os Mutations, Grace Potter, Marco Benevento, La Luz, Monophonics, The Nude Party and The Jack Moves. They also played at renowned festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Treefort Music Festival, Telluride Jazz, Otis Mountain Get Down and BRIC's NYC Winter Jazz Fest.
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We offer discounted tickets for this event to give people with smaller budgets access to culture. These quotas are limited and only available at TixforGigs. We trust your self-assessment: If you can, book standard tickets and leave the reduced contingents to those who have to save a lot.
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Graphic: @Emerged Agency.
Doors: 7.30 p.m.
Show: 8.30 p.m.
*Advance sale 12 €/ 18 €/ 24 € plus fees * Box office tba*
VVK Start: August 21st, 2025 12:00 p.m.
Minimum age: 16
Ghost Funk Orchestra (GFO) is the vision of composer and multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum. What began as a one-man studio experiment in 2014 is now an energetic live band with up to ten musicians.
Musically, GFO is a sonic kaleidoscope: soul, psych-rock, salsa and more merge with psychedelic elements, lush brass arrangements and unpredictable time changes. The band delivers hypnotic grooves, warm vintage sounds and cinematic suspense, from gentle and dreamy to explosive and driving. Live, this results in an intense interplay of dense instrumental passages, sweaty funk breaks and charismatic singing, which condenses into an energetic, rousing whirlpool.
Since its founding, GFO has developed over numerous albums from tropically colored psychedelic soul to an increasingly narrative band with complex, multi-layered arrangements. A Song For Paul relies heavily on the handmade, earthy groove, A New Kind of Love also unfolds an opulent sound world between exotica, soul and soundtrack art, and A Trip to the Moon combines vintage sounds with science fiction to create a cinematic sound journey full of psychedelic funk, exotic textures and surf rock vibes - arranged like an orchestral radio play.
This cross-genre experimentation was supported by NPR, Bandcamp, KUTX, Brooklyn Vegan and Earmilk celebrated. The New York blog Post-Trash called it a “psych odyssey of traditional sounds delivered in unconventional ways.” J. Edward Keyes (Bandcamp) praised that GFO “leaves no funk-savvy genre unexplored.”
GFO has already shared the stage with the likes of Os Mutations, Grace Potter, Marco Benevento, La Luz, Monophonics, The Nude Party and The Jack Moves. They also played at renowned festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Treefort Music Festival, Telluride Jazz, Otis Mountain Get Down and BRIC's NYC Winter Jazz Fest.
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We offer discounted tickets for this event to give people with smaller budgets access to culture. These quotas are limited and only available at TixforGigs. We trust your self-assessment: If you can, book standard tickets and leave the reduced contingents to those who have to save a lot.
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Graphic: @Emerged Agency.