First You Build a Cloud

First You Build A Cloud
Studio album by Andy Summers and Ben Verdery
Released	2007
Label	Rare Recordings
Producer	Andy 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)

First You Build a Cloud is a 2007 album by rock guitarist Andy Summers and classical guitarist Ben Verdery, on the Rare Recordings label. The album consists of 12 guitar duets, Verdery playing acoustic and Summers playing electric.

Origin

The two musicians got the idea to record an album together when classical composer Ingram Marshall approached them both to perform in a concerto for acoustic and electric guitar, Dark Florescence, and they offered to improvise for him to provide inspiration.^[1]

Track listing

• (compositions by Summers/Verdery unless otherwise indicated)

1. "First You Build A Cloud" 4:31
2. "Skywalking Woman" 3:57
3. "Fez" 2:08
4. "Bring on the Night" 6:06 (Sting)
5. "World Piece" 3:46
6. "Love In The Time Of" 3:28
7. "Now I'm Free" 5:22 (Summers)
8. "Stone Town" 3:45
9. "Fingertips On Earth" 1:46
10. "The Girl From Reykjavik" 2:29
11. "Flow" 4:12
12. "Sarabande" 4:47 (J.S. Bach)

Production

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

References

1. First You Build a Cloud at Summers' website Archived December 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• First You Build a Cloud at allmusic.com