Customer Reviews

First You Build a Cloud

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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.

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

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.