In December 2018, Ginger Root recorded a live session at Audiotree's studios in Chicago, playing five songs from Mahjong Room. Alongside that release, Lew released a second album of covers from the ongoing "Toaster Music" project on Bandcamp, calling it Toaster_Music_v2. In June 2018, Ginger Root released a third album, Mahjong Room, featuring four previously released singles ("Two Step", "Call It Home", "Jeanie", and "Having Fun") and six other new songs.
Many of these covers formed the basis for Ginger Root's second album Toaster_music. Afterwards, he would spend another two to three hours editing during his next lecture. Lew says the idea came to him from not wanting to do homework during the four hour break between his classes on Mondays at Chapman University, where he would record vocals, guitar, keyboard, bass, and drums in the backseat, mixing it on his laptop via the car stereo.
BACKGROUND GINGER EXTRA MOVIES SERIES
In 2017, Lew began a weekly YouTube series called "Toaster Music" where he performed covers in his 2004 Honda Element. According to Lew, that EP “turned into an LP”, becoming Spotlight People, and “I slapped the name Ginger Root on it", a name coming from a live Vulfpeck performance of "It Gets Funkier" he discovered on YouTube at 3 A.M one morning, where frontman Jack Stratton chanted "uh, uh ginger root". In mid-2016, he wrote a few songs that he felt didn't fit into the band's existing sound and made an EP out of them.
Ginger Root began as Lew was in the Huntington Beach-based band Van Stock. History Formation, Spotlight People, and Toaster_music (2016 - 2017)
1.1 Formation, Spotlight People, and Toaster_music (2016 - 2017).
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