Brooklyn-based Pepi Ginsberg began putting her poems to songs while living in Philadelphia where she moved to study writing at Penn. Nine months into her songwriting journey, Pepi, with local friends, made the limited-press Orange Juice: Stephanie/Stephanie (2006), her first recording, which taps into raw, experimental folk. The next year, Pepi arranged and recorded Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe(2007), solo with her acoustic, in her bathtub. “It added reverb to the vocals,” she explains, matter-of-fact. A few months later she crossed paths and formed a partnership with Dr.Dog frontman Scott McMicken. Her first “studio” album, 2008’s acclaimed, RED (Park The Van), explores vintage psych-rock and folk and is the first album to show her live potential with a full band. Pepi followed up that release with a more experimental, fuller sound on East is East and was lucky enough to spend 2010 touring the country. On Jan. 25 she will release an ep of older songs called Yes City. She is currently living in Brooklyn, NY working on a full-length follow-up

People who do/have played with Pepi:

Yes City (2011)
Pepi – songs, singing, guitar, keyboard, horn, violin, voice arrangements
Bill Moriarty: mixing/engineering, co-producing
Eric Carbonara: guitar
Jon Guez – guitar
Tom Monihan – guitar
Maura DeBaradinis – violin
John Petit – trumpet
Tim Lappin – bass
Matt Scarano – drums
Pete Angevine – percussion, electronic drums
Eliza Hardy Jones – singing
Zach Miller – Keyboard
Brandon Cooney – piano

East is East (2010)
Tim Sonefeld – mixing engineering
Amnon Freidlin, Jon Guez, Pete Angevine, Pepi Ginsberg – production
Amnon Freidlin, Jon Guez, Pete Angevine – arrangments
Pepi – songs, singing, guitar
Jon Guez – bass, mixing, engineering, singing, keyboard
Amnon Friedlin – guitar
Pete Angevine – drums

Shake This EP (2010)

all players/arrangers same as East is East
engineered and mixed by Marc Allen Goodman

Red (2008)
Scott McMicken – engineering, mixing, production – many instruments
Pepi Ginsberg – songs, guitar, singing
John Petit – trumpet
Jesse Moynihan – violin
Brendan Cooney – banjo
Evan Lipson – upright bass

Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe(2007)

mixed/mastered by Rob Badenoch
Pepi – everything else

Orange Juice Stephanie/Stephanie
(2006)
Eric Carbonara, Matt Ricchini- Production, engineering, mixing -
Pepi – songs, guitar, singing
Michael Heinzer – bass
Eric Carbonara – guitar
Matt Ricchini – drums