First You Build a Cloud [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Andy Summers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rare Recordings
• ASIN: B000TQCNF0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,751 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. First You Build a Cloud

2. Skywalking Woman

3. Fez

4. Bring on the Night

5. World Piece

6. Love in the Time Of

7. Now I'm Free

8. Stone Town

9. Fingertips on Earth

10. The Girl from Reykjavik

11. Flow

12. Sarabande

Editorial Reviews

2007 album from The Police guitar ace, in a unique collaboration with highly acclaimed classical guitarist Ben Verdery. Released as the reformed Police embark on a high profile world tour with heavy international media and press coverage. Summer's guitar playing was always at the musical heart of The Police, and when the band split up in the mid 80's, he went off to make music outside of the Rock mainstream. This album is further proof of his wide ranging talents. Recorded in collaboration with Ben Verdery, First You Build A Cloud perfectly illustrates both their innovative and eclectic musical careers. Rare.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Andy's Best Duo Album, on a Par With His Best Solo Albums, September 22, 2007

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Raj Manoharan "RajMan" (New York Metropolitan Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First You Build a Cloud (Audio CD)

This is Andy's best duet album and right up there with his best solo albums.

Andy plays some of the best leads and solos he has ever played on record.

I love all the tracks, but my definite favorites are:

First You Build a Cloud -- classic Andy atmospherics in the vein of his Fripp collaborations (I Advance Masked, Bewitched), Mysterious Barricades, and The Golden Wire.

Fez -- great fretboard frenzy recalling his solos on Innocence Falls Prey (Charming Snakes) and Tonight at Noon (Peggy's Blue Skylight).

Love in the Time of -- this is a unique fusion melody the likes of which I haven't heard Andy play before.

Throughout the album, Andy demonstrates that he is a guitarist like no other, and the very last tones of the album show a power and force not evidenced in his underrated work with The Police (at least in the old days) and provide proof that few, if any, other guitarists come close.

P.S.: Ben Verdery is an outstanding guitarist as well, and his classical playing is a perfect counterpoint and complement to, and springboard for, Andy's jazz/rock improvisation.

P.S.S.: For those who sell Andy short on his collaborations with Fripp, listen to the albums Charming Snakes, Synaesthesia, and First You Build a Cloud. This should give them second thoughts about who played what on the albums I Advance Masked and Bewitched.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UP THERE WITH HIS BEST !!, January 7, 2010

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J. Niven (Sydney.Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First You Build a Cloud (Audio CD)

Andy's latest collaboration with Ben Verdery,is right up there with his best work!! Excellent musicianship !!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shipped the Wrong CD, September 18, 2007

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Unhappy Camper (Disappointedville, Planet Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First You Build a Cloud (Audio CD)

The album was great. More Andy Summers without the jazz. Unfortunately, the extra track version advertised herein was not provided so I didn't get to listen to the extra 13th track. Would have liked to contact Amazon directly so that I could notify them, but could only find the option to return, which was useless to me as I didn't notice the missing track until days after opening it. Music was good. Probably would have given it a 5 star if I had received the whole product.