First You Build a Cloud

First You Build a Cloud is an album by guitarists Andy Summers and Ben Verdery on the Rare Recordings label. The album consists of twelve guitar duets, with Verdery on acoustic and Summers on electric.

First You Build a Cloud
Studio album by
Andy Summers and Ben Verdery
Released2007 (2007)
RecordedJune 2004
StudioShant Hall, Venice Beach, California
GenreJazz, avant-garde
Length46:17
LabelRare Recordings
ProducerAndy Summers, Ben Verdery, Dennis Smith
Andy Summers chronology
Splendid Brazil
(2005)		 First You Build a Cloud
(2007)		 Fundamental
(2012)
Ben Verdery chronology
Two Generations: Concerti for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
(1986)		 First You Build a Cloud
(2007)

Origin

The two musicians got the idea to record an album together when classical composer Ingram Marshall approached them to perform in a concerto for acoustic and electric guitar, Dark Florescence, and they offered to improvise for him to provide inspiration. On his performing classical music for guitar, Summers said: "I have always been very attracted to more edgy classical composers like Varese, Messiaen and Stravinsky; Toru Takemitsu would be another one. I had gone to college for four years and studied music, so there was a lot of stuff like that in my head—very contemporary, 20th Century classical music writing. I was drawn towards all that and wanted to express all those textures through the guitar. I came to a place where the things we can do now with pedals to create these incredible textures became very appealing to me."[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Andy Summers and Ben Verdery except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."First You Build a Cloud"4:31
2."Skywalking Woman"3:57
3."Fez"2:08
4."Bring on the Night" (Sting)6:06
5."World Piece"3:46
6."Love in the Time Of"3:28
7."Now I'm Free" (Summers)5:22
8."Stone Town"3:45
9."Fingertips on Earth"1:46
10."The Girl from Reykjavik"2:29
11."Flow"4:12
12."Sarabande" (J.S. Bach)4:47

Production
  • Andy Summers, Ben Verdery, Dennis Smith – producers
  • Dennis Smith – recording, mixing
  • Norman Moore – art direction & design
  • Andy Summers – cover photography
  • Recorded June 2004 at Shant Hall, "Venice Beach, Californshire"

References
  1. http://www.guitarmoderne.com/pioneer/the-andy-summers-interview
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