#Shinbangumi

[chickenburgergmod]

How can you say this is not for debating

How can you say that you've got no problems

[felixisstimming]

shinbangumi (ginger root) stimboard

☁️ - with related stims

📷 - requested by anon

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[leostimstuff]

A Shinbangumi themed Ginger Root stimboard with cameras for anon!!

🎥 ☁️ 🎞️ | 🎥 🎞️ | 🎥 ☁️ 🎞️

[dailygingerroot]

Big news! Ginger Root’s new album is coming soon!

Shinbangumi is set to release 9/13! ‘No Problems’ is already released as a music video.

Track list:

Welcome

No Problems (5/22)

Better Than Monday

There Was A Time

All Night

CM

Only You

Kaze

Giddy Up

Think Cool

Show 10

Take Me Back (Owakare No Jikan)

[polaroidcorner]

i drew the art for this one! go support megabaz and all of their other works 🫶

full original piece under the cut

[datclassydame]

I believe this is the intended use of the building paper craft.

[koushizzy]

I WENT TO A GINGER ROOT CONCERT LAST NIGHT!!!

oh. my. gosh. WHAT AN AMAZING SHOW!!!! amaiwana was super duper cute and cameron was awesome as always!!!! he played DAY TRIPPER!!!! BY THE BEATLES!!!! aaaaa!!! as a beatles fanboy and a ginger root fanboy it was one of the most magical moments of my life. thank you cameron lew.

[rustedbread]

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[sa-banana-ana]

I wasn't sure what the Ginger Root fandom was looking like here on Tumblr, but it looks like there's a good chunk of us enthusiasts of aggressive elevator soul.

Anyways, I recently went to a show and it was sooo good!! Cameron's opener was the absolutely adorable Amaiwana. She was amazing and really got everyone grooving and jamming. Once Cameron came onstage, everyone went crazy and sang along to every song. And I personally think everyone was super cool about personal space and being able to jam out comfortably. I'm so happy I got to go this year, and I hope Ginger Root decides to come back to my city next tour. I fucking loved it!

[iamlisteningto]

Ginger Root’s SHINBANGUMI

[breezysmoak]

Ginger Root Brings Wholesome Dose of ‘Aggressive Elevator Soul’ to Brooklyn Steel

[dustedmagazine]

Ginger Root — SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)

Photo by Cameron Lew

The latest Ginger Root record has multi-instrumentalist Cameron Lew diving deep into retro sounds, drawing inspiration from Paul McCartney, Yellow Magic Orchestra and other pre-internet vibes. It’s a well-constructed LP and one with the flow and pace of a concept record, but it’s also one that sticks to a formula.

Things kick off with “No Problems,” a slice of McCartney-esque pop with warm keyboards, touches of strings, and a thin guitar tone that twangs like a rubber band. Lew builds an emphasis on the McCartney II, early 1980s ambience: the analog synths, the way everything sounds like it’s been built by overdubbing one instrument at a time, or how it feels like it’s old without actually being old. This sort of not-quite-nostalgia is all over SHINBANGUMI, and “No Problems” does a great job of setting the scene for listeners.

Lew’s a musician who wears his influences on his sleeve, and throughout the first half of the record you can almost make a checklist of what he likes by the way each song sounds: “Better Than Monday” has a slinky, almost mechanical funk groove that recalls Yellow Magic Orchestra, while “All Night” has a driving, bass-led groove straight out of a vintage city pop record by Tatsuro Yamashita. And “Giddy Up” throws in a vaguely tense sort of energy that lands somewhere between solo McCartney and Todd Rundgren. When Lew’s at his best on songs like these, he makes music that’s engaging and fun.

But when he errs, it grinds the album to a halt. “Kaze” is a curveball that sounds like an odd, almost-listing sort of lounge music. Tonally it doesn’t really match what else is happening here: there’s little rolls of percussion and it builds into an uneventful climax. It feels like it’s from a completely different record and it disrupts the flow he’s been building up.

Throughout SHINBANGUMI, Lew hides his voice behind filters and it’s occasionally hard to make out his lyrics when he’s shoved to the back of the mix. He isn’t a strong singer or especially a wordsmith, but his singing almost feels incidental to the music here. This is a record that’s big on pop hooks and funky basslines. And perhaps a plot of some kind, too. Lew’s released a series of connected videos for this that suggest it’s a concept record following a TV executive in 1980s Japan making his own network. The plot feels loose and sort of incidental to the lyrics, but the way this album flows does have a feeling of a storyline, right down to a climax on “Show 10” and a coda on “Take Me Back.” Those two close the album out with more lush city pop grooves, touches of sax and strings, and carefully placed splashes of keyboards.

The thing about a record like this is that you almost know the game plan from the album’s lead single. Lew sets the template early: lots of old sounding keyboards, basslines that move all over the rhythm, and a vocal template that keeps his voice almost buried. Aside from a couple of curveballs and a few short interludes, he never really strays from that model. It’s an album that if it catches you right away, it’s probably one you’ll enjoy all the way through. But if you’re expecting it to build into something or for him to explore a wide palette of sounds you’ll be left wanting. As they say on TV: viewer discretion is advised.

Roz Milner 

[thebowerypresents]

Ginger Root – Brooklyn Steel – October 17, 2024

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cameron Lew makes soulful pop-fueled throwback R&B as Ginger Root, and he brought his recently released fourth LP, Shinbangumi — and a few bandmates — to Brooklyn Steel on Thursday night.

(Ginger Root plays Union Transfer in Philadelphia tonight.)

Photos courtesy of Jay Hamilton | @justinejayphoto

[ventriloquistvillain]

ginger root new album is out!!!!!!!!! shinbangumi!!!!!!!!!!!!! yahooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! iot came out yesterday but i missed it because iw as sleeping but its okay this still sounds good

[aroace-elgyem]

NEW GINGER ROOT ALBUM IM SO EXCITED