PEPI GINSBERG
SOME FACTS

Pepi was named after her grandmother, a resistance fighter in World War II. With the help of Pepi's grandfather from across the ocean, whom she would later meet in person at the Copacabana in New York City, her grandmother organized the refugee ship, The Exodus, to usher holocaust victims to safe harbor in Palestine. 

A Connecticut native, Pepi was editor of her high school newspaper, a position Truman Capote once filled.

Pepi recorded her sophomore album “Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe” in her apartment bathtub in Brooklyn, NY.

Upon returning home from a tour in support of “Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe,” Pepi found a bottle with a note in it at the foot of her apartment door. The return address was from Philadelphia musician Scott McMicken (Dr. Dog) who had written to Pepi asking if she would like to record a song with him.

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ON RECORDING HER ALBUM, RED

As Pepi tells it: 'I went down and it was just good vibes from day one.  We recorded the song ‘The Waterline’ and it came out great. I went back a few days later and we did ‘In My Bones’ and then I just never left. I had all these other songs and the general feeling was ‘Damn, we have three and a half weeks, I have the songs, so lets just do it.’  We created a schedule and thought of the best way to approach an analogue record - which was sticking to basics, no reverb, no plug-ins - just music and spirit.  We stayed up until all hours, smoked too many cigarettes, washed up in the sink and slept on the couches so we never had to commute. Hanging out was just so much fun that I don't think either one of us was too interested in doing anything other than recording or talking, including sleeping and eating. We would get stranded at the studio and the nearest place to get a real sandwich is a twenty minute walk which meant dinner one night was salt and pepper on packing-peanuts from a box of recently delivered records. The whole time was magical, better than any dream."

Pepi Ginsberg's Park the Van debut, RED, will be available in the spring of 2008.

For more information, please contact Steven Trachtenbroit @ Big Hassle Media
212.619.1360