*****Physical Cassette Tape Available On Bandcamp*****
https://loopfiftyfive.bandcamp.com/album/muffin-weekend-by-sabrina-oh

Sabrina reads back "Sunday: The Other Half Of The Muffin" from her debut book "Muffin Weekend" in this audio format. 

The cassette edition of "Muffin Weekend" includes ◒ "Sunday: The Other Half Of The Muffin", a 13-minute acid narration of the short story recorded to tape, followed by a 33-minute dinnerdance disco mix by sabroh, using selection from an estate sale haul, or the other half ◓ "Saturday: Top Of The Muffin", itemized in full in the paperback edition.

Loop 55 is stoked to house Sabrina Oh's debut paperback, "Muffin Weekend", a manual override on average weekends in Los Angeles to herself. The pocketbook sandwiches snapshots ripped from the haze of her mid-20s and a kind of sunshine that blankets the Southern California of the journaler's experience.

Muffin Weekend is a two-step affair. "Saturday: Top Of The Muffin" itemizes the fronts and backs of the casual things of a leaner estate sale haul—objects well-suited for sandwiching. "Sunday: The Other Half Of The Muffin" follows, a day of synthesis. Sunday is when the late breakfast thoughts of a diner overcome, undress and shake out in a booth at a NORMS in Van Nuys of the San Fernando Valley. Self-made consumerisms, self-told histories, private observations and not-conclusions mix, fold over one another and drive the omelette trip around a Southern California from memory. Patterns program, acid samples, crumbs play-doh. 

For her debut release, Sabrina captures normals in the chaotic spins of fear and satisfaction known to her as free time. Muffin Weekend renders the wildchild Californian's status update on personal groove formation and weekends as fair chance at child's play.

Sabrina is a researcher and pirate radio DJ from Southern California, currently living in Los Angeles. Sabrina is the host of Lava Lamp Radio which airs monthly as part of KCHUNG Radio's residency at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the Chinatown-based AM/Internet radio station’s first public location. Sabrina is also the author of "The Last Best Place", a collection of case studies on contemporary Asian migration, diaspora and community building practices in Montana in which she visits, documents and tells the stories of four Asian-identifying women.

Written, voiced & produced by sabrina
Acidwork made possible by dylan and emi
Mix recorded by sabroh

Sabrina Oh - Muffin Weekend Cassette Edition

on september 3rd, emi and i hosted an afternoon tea party at our place in the spirit of launching 'muffin weekend'. dress code was observed, and mancala was played. while planning for the party a month prior, i knew i wanted to ask dylan/Dovecot to environ the party with a sonic arrangement, to which he kindly and promptly accepted. the prompt in question was something of a free-write, somewhere along the lines of 'through the looking glass' and, we agreed, with instrumental concentration. dylan's timeless collection and thoughtfull programming drew all present into the renewal stew that labor day weekend. emi and i ran the mix on repeat the next day in our living rm. the inflections are all so felt, each phrase never losing cool, all shifts made in the warm embrace of a singular sun. to me, this mix functions as a memory palace for the spread that spreadt across the floorplan on that exceptionally sweet sunday afternoon. thanks all for the hang together <3

the full 3hr cubist/psychedelic/transcendental/environmental/ultimately contemplative mix by Dovecot is now up on @loopfiftyfive soundcloud as well as Dovecot's youtube channel. the youtube version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXiu03fxlzA) also includes visuals + an advert by emi for a kitten family in our backyard looking for a home. ATTN : LA! if you or someone you know is interested in adopting or fostering, please contact the number on there, emi or me if interested! cheers, s xx

music arranged by Dovecot/Dylan Karlsson
listen to Dovecot on bandcamp @ www.dovecot.bandcamp.com

LP55.001 Dovecot "muffin weekend mix"

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