LIQUID ADJUSTMENT cassette + digital album
Santa Fe Soap Opera
$10.00
"Assembled by a host of underground musicians (and pals) from the hills of New Mexico, this radio play-type outing is at once funny and lightly surreal, recalling productions like Matthew Thurber's Ambergis project or the WBAI radio show Poisoned Arts...produc[ing] similarly pleasant and off-centre results. Of course, as with all such things, the higher you are the better it sounds. But it's up to the listener to adjust that particular dial." -Byron Coley, The Wire, Issue 503/504, Jan/Feb 2026
In 1978, Joanne Kyger wrote the radio drama Bolinas Soap Opera for WRFB Radio Free Bolinas. Founded by Michael Rafferty of the Bolinas Hearsay News (and the town's local butcher), pirate radio station WRFB barely broadcast less than a mile across the span of the Bolinas Mesa before it was shut down by the FCC. The station format included pop music, comedy albums, and on-air prank telephone calls from a pay phone installed in the studio.
Set amongst local landmarks Smiley’s Saloon and the Bolinas Community Public Utilities District, Kyger's Bolinas Soap Opera follows the lives, loves, and paranormal adventures of the residents of Bolinas (a "psychedelic Peyton Place") as it experiences troubling visitations by a seductive extraterrestrial.
PRROBLEM now reimagines Kyger's forgotten radio drama in a new adaption—LIQUID ADJUSTMENT: Santa Fe Soap Opera—featuring voice talents and sound effects by PRROBLEM press friends.
Announcer: Justin Clifford Rhody
Marjorie Motherfigure: Kieran Sequoia
Lilly Lucious: Abigail Smith
Tom Henderson: Chris Philpot
Sally Soupbowl: Alexandra Terry
Lester Soupbowl: Pete Valente
Pranci Bluegrass: Riel Bellow
Marilyn Crown: Colleen Cilwick
New Man in Town: KamiJo Whiteclay
Harold Motherfigure: Mark Garrett
Commercials: Scott Nicolay, Trevor Leuzinger
Based on Bolinas Soap Opera by Joanne Kyger
Adapted for radio by Sean Dickerson
Recorded June 2025 at No Name Cinema in Santa Fe NM
Mixed by Justin Rhody and Sean Dickerson
Mastered by Bryan Day
Collages by Abigail Smith
Cassette + Digital Album.
Edition of 100 copies. Pro-printed shells & double-sided insert. Dubbed in real time.
Co-released by PHYSICAL & PRROBLEM Press.