Howard Riley - The Complete Short Stories 1998 - 2010, FLAC torrent

The beauty of a short story, of course, is that it can be taken in at a sitting, indeed is so structured and formulated that it represents a single, continuous verbal performance, unlike the episodic or architectural structure of a long novel. It is, to that extent, a form that lends itself rather well to musical analogies, though not at first glance to improvised music, which tends to subordinate artful structure to moment-by-moment invention. And yet the greatest short stories can often seem improvised: brief, epiphanic flashes where the next step and the eventual outcome remain in doubt to the very end. There’s something of the humane embrace of Chekhov, Hemingway’s muscle, reticence and resistance to mere abstraction, but perhaps it’s Henry James, that master of indefinable atmospheres and of the tense dialogue between Old World and New World cultures. This is the realm Howard Riley occupies with magisterial confidence, jazz given not just a catch-all cisAtlantic accent but with Howard’s distinctive burr, classical language not simply swung but put through a harmonic and rhythmic gate that transforms it utterly. How to hear him? Italo Calvino, another master of the short form, put it perfectly: ‘It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.’

Tracks:

CD 1:

The Opener 3‘08“
Eleven 2‘31“
Liason 4‘25“
Encore 7‘25“
Echoes 2‘59“
No Void 3‘03“
Stretch 2‘56“
Mythology 6‘48“
Branching 2‘12“
Hullabaloo 3‘47“
New Winter 2‘18“
Largo 2‘42“
Played In 2‘25“
Veracity 1‘50“
Only One 2‘59“
Headway 1‘39“
CD 2:

Short Stories 3‘21“
Dedication 5‘12“
Sun One 3‘50“
One More Time 2‘53“
Axis 3‘19“
The Furthest Point 3‘47“
After Which 4‘49“
Air Time 2‘14“
Alternatives 2‘10“
Regeneration 4‘21“
For Jaki 3‘51“
To Be Sure 2‘40“
Sun Two 3‘05“
Sincerity 3‘45“
Of Now 3‘22“
CD 3:

Geocentric One 3‘43“
Up And Downs 2‘50“
With Ease 3‘14“
The Gap 3‘17“
Think Again 3‘24“
Geocentric Two 3‘26“
Palmate 3‘32“
Walkabout 2‘34“
Reconciliation 3‘33“
Branch Lines 3‘24“
Head Games 2‘35“
Splits 2‘32“
Concision 3‘48“
Shenanigans 3‘10“
Maybe 5‘40“
CD 4:

Another Time 3‘36“
No Regrets 3‘12“
Ascending 2‘10“
Still Standing 3‘20“
Threesome 2‘27“
Of the Moment 4‘30“
Reflective Tendencies 4‘42“
Inevitably 3‘19“
Sentiments 3‘27“
Open Question 4‘29“
Hidden Knowledge 4‘52“
Meeting 2‘21“
Hear Me Out 6‘11“
Passing 3‘00“
Roots 6‘04“
CD 5:

Autograph 5‘02“
Distance 3‘09“
Silhouette 4‘10“
Only One 3‘10“
The Fourteenth 4‘10“
There You Are 3‘54“
Evidently 2‘44“
Related 4‘34“
Moving 3‘47“
Equanimity 3‘47“
Stopped 2‘52“
Reversal 5‘59“
Thinking of Midnight 4‘42“?
CD 6:

Dark On Light 11‘04“
Set Aside 10‘00“
Longevitine 11‘19“
Move On 9‘22“
Composure 11‘08“
NoBusiness Records NBCD 21-26, 2011. Limited edition of 300 boxes

CD 1 was recorded on 23rd July 1998
CD 2 was recorded on 11th April, 1999
CD 3 was recorded on 29th June 2004
CD 4 was recorded on 2nd August 2006
CD 5 was recorded on 27th June 2008
CD 6 was recorded on 22nd April 2010

All compositions by Howard Riley (PRS/MCPS)

Mastered by Arыnas Zujus at MAMAstudios
Design by Oskaras Anosovas
Producer – Danas Mikailionis
Co-producer – Valerij Anosov

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