Pepi Ginsburg

Pepi Ginsberg was born in CT in the early summer. She lived in a clapboard house on Clapboard Ridge Road with her mother and father and dog. When she was seven her father died in a plane accident and later her mother remarried a kind, gentle man. Pepi was named after her grandmother, a resistance fighter in world war two, who, with the help of Pepi's grandfather, whom she would later be introduced to at the Copacabana in NYC, organized the refugee ship the Exodus to usher holocaust victims to safe harbor in Palestine. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Pepi Ginsberg was born in CT in the early summer. She lived in a clapboard house on Clapboard Ridge Road with her mother and father and dog. When she was seven her father died in a plane accident and later her mother remarried a kind, gentle man. Pepi was named after her grandmother, a resistance fighter in world war two, who, with the help of Pepi's grandfather, whom she would later be introduced to at the Copacabana in NYC, organized the refugee ship the Exodus to usher holocaust victims to safe harbor in Palestine. Pepi attended the local high school, where she continued her writing, picking up the post as editor of the school magazine, a position Truman Capote once filled. When it came time to leave, Pepi packed her bags and headed to West Philadelphia to attend college, where she continued to work on both visual art and creative writing, the latter of which manifested itself in the form of a novella written at age 19 called ‘No Name Colorado.’ Luckily finding great like minds within the city, Pepi spent the last years of school haunting the warehouses, drawing and playing songs with friends. A spot on a local a Philly music compilation soon followed and with the support and help of friends Pepi had made her first record, Orange Juice:Stephanie/Stephanie by the spring of the following year. That next fall in 2006, Pepi moved to Brooklyn, and recorded a second record Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe in the tub of her apt bathroom. When the record was finished, she hit the road with dear friends and headed west, driving the coast of California, to play shows. Upon returning home, 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 come to town and record a song. As Pepi tells it: ‘I went down and it was just good vibes from day one. We recorded 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 the Brown Chair, White Room Manifesto which was a collection of our ideas on what we thought was a good way to approach an analogue record – stick to basics, no reverb, no plug-ins, just music and spirit. We stayed up all hours, smoked too many cigarettes, washed up in the sink, and slept on the couches so we never had to commute. On top of that, hanging out was just so fun that I don’t think either one of us was too interested in doing anything that wasn’t recording or talking, including sleeping and eating. There were late nights that we went a little silly, we called these times our non-tage moments, laying on the floor with Scott’s amazing dog Zimba starring at us as if to say ‘Oh man . . .’ Then we’d 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. We snuck into the building’s staff fridge and brought ice cream sandwich’s into the fort we built in the studio, but I’m probably not supposed to tell that! We took a trip to Toby's grandparent's house in York, PA to record Nothing More outside at night with the crickets as our backing soundtrack, The whole time was magic, better than a dream.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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