First You Build a Cloud is a 2007 album by rock guitarist Andy Summers

Andy Summers

Andy Summers is an English guitarist born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. Best known as the guitarist for rock band The Police, he has also recorded twelve solo albums, collaborated with many other artists, toured extensively under his own name, published several books, and composed...

 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

Ingram Marshall

Ingram Marshall is an American composer and a former student of Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick. Son of Bernice Douglas and Harry Reinhard Marshall, Sr. He was a talented soprano in the Boy's Choir at the Mt. Vernon Community Church, and was influenced early by noted music instructor,...

 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.

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
   Bring On the Night
   Bring on the Night is a 1986 live album by Sting recorded over the course of several live shows in 1985 and released in 1986. The title is taken from a song by The Police from their 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc. The songs performed include Sting's early solo material from the studio album The Dream...
   
   " 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
    Sarabande
    In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes in alternation...
    
    " 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"

External links

• First You Build a Cloud at allmusic.com