#maps and mazes

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Find a Olga Wojciechowska - Maps And Mazes first pressing or reissue. Complete your Olga Wojciechowska collection. Shop Vinyl and CDs.

Patient music that begins, unfurls and resolves. Blending elements of ambient, passion and experimentation cohesively into an album of sonic intimacy. The Artist / Author Olga Wojciechowska opens the drapes to your emotions and blows poetic tone poems into the sails of your mind. Lovely music through and through...

This release will come in two versions. This is the first limited deluxe version in an edition of only 65 copies. It comes in the form of a hand sewn booklet composed of translucent vellum maps, threaded and intricate mazes, a fabric pouch for the factory pressed disc, all stamped, punched, hand worked and enclosed in a large circular and reconfigured antique educational chart…all fitting into a stamped, stiff outer sleeve. There is also a digipak version in an edition of just 150 copies.

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Olga Wojciechowska ~ Maps and Mazes

Olga Wojciechowska ~ Maps and Mazes

This gorgeous year-end album would make a wonderful Christmas gift, so be sure to seek it out when it goes on sale this Sunday.  Maps and Mazes is not only an exemplary album, but an another exquisitely packaged product from Time Released Sound.  The label continues to go from strength to strength; the staff may not make a lot of money, but they certainly have a lot of fun. Some may recognize the…

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A Glastonbury Romance

J C Powys (John Cowper Powys)

But there was a power now shining down upon Mr. Dekker that cared nothing for St. Paul. The soul of the great burning sun which illuminated that massive, iron-grey, bent head had many times ere this been roused to anger against him. Among the myriads of conscious beings peopling that hemisphere of our planetary orb who refused in that spring solstice to make the sort of grateful gesture towards this great Deity which the Powers of Nature demand of those they favour, this ruddy-faced man in shirtsleeves bending now over his potato bed seemed to that flaming heart the most obdurate and the most sacrilegious.

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La Saga/Fuga de J. B.

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Nuestra primera obligación, después del rescate de la Cibidá de manos ignorantes, y de la defensa y beneficio de las mozas locales -sostenía, en privado, don Torcuato-, consiste ni más ni menos que en liberar a nuestros conciudadanos de sus ancestrales hábitos eróticos. ¿Qué puede esperarse de un pueblo que no conoce otra postura que la normal, y además a oscuras y con el camisón puesto? La sagrada idea de la libertad tiene que comenzar por la liberación de la carne; el ejercicio de la imaginación, sin el que la ciencia no puede desarrollarse cumplidamente, ha de disciplinarse en la invención de refinamientos carnales.

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Abbacinante. L'Ala Sinistra [Orbitor. Aripa stângă]

Mircea Cărtărescu

Prima che costruissero l'edificio qui di fronte e tutto diventasse opaco e irrespirabile, guardavo Bucarest per notti intere, dalla tripla finestra panoramica della mia stanza di via Ștefan cel Mare.

(a cura di Bruno Mazzoni)

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Dreams and Stones [Sny i Kamienie]

Magdalena Tulli

It is for this reason that the places whose names sound from station loudspeakers are incapable of independent existence, even though in many of these names varicolored lights are constantly being turned on and off and there are gigantic perfumed fountains and little silver bells that ring. Is it possible that Paris really exists – a place with a name so pretentious it makes one laugh? Or London, which was essentially conceived as fog? Manchester and Liverpool are two soccer fields with coal tips instead of stands. Bordeaux is a mountain in the shape of a bottle; Rotterdam, Antwerp and the Hague are the names of flea-ridden sailing ships rocking against the quay, their holds filled with spices and silk. Venice is in reality a mother-of-pearl gondola in which is concealed a music box. Chicago is a place filled with suitcases of money where gangsters in felt hats live, shoot guns and die. New York crammed the tallest skyscrapers in the world into an area six inches long and four and a half wide; on the other side there is a box for a postage stamp. Rome is a point to which all roads lead: a dusty moth-eaten inn in the middle of nowhere. The word Casablanca, white as paper and black as the night, is the name of a late-night bar for undecided suicides. All these are part of the city and if the truth be told, in it they occupy less room than a bookmark in a book. The passersby who gaze daily at the dim quadrilateral of Constitution Square understand that Paris is where one buys Parisian rolls and that no other Paris exists.

(Translation by Bill Johnston)

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The King in the Tree

Steven Millhauser

The Queen is a whore - cut off her nose. The Queen is lecherous - burn her. Such are the interesting remarks one hears at court, from those who dislike the King’s new bride. Others, it is true, speak of the Queen’s exceeding beauty. By this they mean the Queen is guilty and should be hanged. For my part, I believe the young Queen is beautiful and must be watched closely. I, Thomas of Cornwall, faithful counselor of a once happy King.

(from The King in the Tree: Three Novellas)

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Last Letters from Hav

Jan Morris

(June)

You may wonder what a maze-mallet is, such as appears in the paws of the bear on the Governor’s emblem, and why a maze should be configured on the fretwork of the House of the Chinese Master. Forgive me. The maze is so universal a token of Hav, appears so often in legends and artistic references of all kinds, that one comes to take it for granted.   The idea of the maze has always been associated with Hav. The first reference to a Hav maze-maker comes in Pliny, who says the greatest master of the craft ‘lived in the peninsula called by the people of those parts Hav, which some say means the place of summer, but others the place of confusions’.

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