Draft:Nisemono
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Nisemono ([ɲisemono], lit. 'fake' or 'fraud' or 'counterfeit') is the seventh EP by the American indie soul music project Ginger Root, and is a concept EP that explores the feeling of impostor syndrome.[1][2][3]
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| Nisemono | ||||
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| EP by | ||||
| Released | September 9, 2022 | |||
| Length | 17:53 35:54 (vinyl) | |||
| Label | Acrophase Records | |||
| Ginger Root chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Nisemono | ||||
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Background
Release and reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Modern Music Analysis | 9.5/10[6] |
Ginger Root released the Nisemono EP in 2022 and has since played sold-out shows across North America, Europe, and Asia as fans await new music. In 2024, Ginger Root presents SHINBANGUMI across a sequential music video series, resuming the conceptual narrative from Nisemono, which follows Ginger Root as a newly-fired music supervisor in 1987 starting his own media conglomerate, Ginger Root Productions. "If you watch music videos one through eight, you'll be presented with a story that’s comparable to a traditional movie; something I've always wanted to do.”[7]
Following City Slicker, Ginger Root’s relationship with Citypop peaked with the release of Nisemono, the band’s second most recent album. Released alongside a complete set of music videos set in 1983 that follow Lew’s fictional journey from ghostwriter to faux-idol, the album oozes postwar energy— the album art directly references the design of vinyl covers of the time, while the music videos advertise disposable cameras and nonexistent TV shows. Most notably, a full collection of the album’s music videos as well as behind-the-scenes footage and commentary from Lew was released with the album on, of all things, VHS only— a medium that hasn’t been used regularly for thirty years. Nisemono is, arguably, Lew’s most musically complex album— song structure varies, arrangements and production stand out as strikingly sophisticated— but it delves only further into the Citypop influence than ever. Yet there is something else there, something more self-conscious— curiously, the word “nisemono” translates roughly to “fraud.”[8]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ISFZfckOEU[9]
https://medium.com/modern-music-analysis/nisemono-by-ginger-root-review-2acddbb52a03*[6]
https://www.onestowatch.com/en/blog/ginger-root-nisemono[10]
https://sptalon.com/13234/thetalonarchive/nisemono-ep-by-ginger-root-project-review/[11]
https://nyulocal.com/nisemono-by-ginger-root-is-nostalgia-bottled-up-in-six-tracks-b7917a6c009c[12]
https://wknc.org/2022/09/17/nisemono-by-ginger-root-ep-review/[13]
https://www.thenorth1033.org/music/2022-09-19/basement-featured-album-of-the-week-ginger-root-nisemono[14]
https://radiomilwaukee.org/discover-music/new-songs-on-air/2022-10-03/add-of-the-week-ginger-root-nisemono[15]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bpUXnKgkGs[16]
https://artsfuse.org/264997/pop-music-review-ginger-roots-nisemono-and-the-virtues-of-creative-recycling/[2]
https://sptalon.com/13234/thetalonarchive/nisemono-ep-by-ginger-root-project-review/[17]
https://www.onestowatch.com/en/blog/ginger-root-loneliness[18]
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1126022518/ginger-roots-cameron-lew-wants-his-new-ep-to-showcase-city-pop-as-familiar-yet-f[1]
https://joysauce.com/ginger-root-is-good-for-the-soul/[19]
https://chimes-ray-m2xt.squarespace.com/recaps/gingerroot-losangeles[20]
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Music videos
Track listing
All tracks are written by Cameron Lew.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kimiko!" | 1:14 |
| 2. | "Loneliness" | 3:27 |
| 3. | "Holy Hell" | 3:24 |
| 4. | "Over the Hill" | 2:47 |
| 5. | "Nisemono" | 3:01 |
| 6. | "Everything's Alright (Meet You in the Galaxy Ending Theme)" | 4:00 |
| Total length: | 17:53 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kimiko!" (Instrumental) | 1:39 |
| 2. | "Loneliness" (Manager Approved Demo) | 3:37 |
| 3. | "Holy Hell" ("Slowly" Demo) | 3:27 |
| 4. | "Over the Hill" (Vocal Idea Demo) | 2:53 |
| 5. | "Nisemono" (Early Demo) | 1:30 |
| 6. | "Everything's Alright" (Instrumental) | 3:59 |
| 7. | "Holy Jazz" | 0:56 |
| Total length: | 18:01 | |
Personnel
Adapted from Tidal and NYU Local[22][12]
Musicians
- Cameron Lew – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums
- Amaiwana[a] (as Kimiko Takeguchi) – spoken vocals (track 1)
Production
- Cameron Lew – producer, mixing engineer
Technical
Notes
- Presumed from her being cast as the fictional Kimiko and having similar vocals in her rendition of "Loneliness".