This
year marks the 30th anniversary of Andy
Summers’ solo recording career, and to commemorate the occasion,
I’ve come up with what I feel are the guitarist’s definitive
musical highlights of the last three decades.
Think
of the following as a three-CD, 30-track best-of retrospective, which
can be divided into three self-contained 10-track collections.
Disc
One: Shining Sea (Shimmering Soundscapes)
Guide
* Forgotten Steps * Image and Likeness * XYZ * Red Balloon *
Mysterious Barricades * Shining Sea * Imagine You * Journey through
Blue Regions * Help from Jupiter
Disc
Two: The Somnambulist (Soft Fusion)
Hold
Me * Luna * The Golden Wire * Passion of the Shadow * Bacchante * Low
Flying Doves * The Somnambulist * Now I’m Free * Harmonograph * If
Anything
Disc
Three: Ruffled Feathers (Hard Fusion)
Nowhere
* Earthly Pleasures * Mexico 1920 * Ruffled Feathers * Meshes of the
Afternoon * Shuffle Boil * Tonight at Noon * Above the World * Metal
Dog * Elephant Bird
Of
these, my absolute Top Ten for a single-CD best-of collection is as
follows:
Best
of 1987-2017
XYZ
* Shining Sea * The Golden Wire * Mexico 1920 * Bacchante * Meshes of
the Afternoon * The Somnambulist * Tonight at Noon * Now I'm Free *
If Anything
--Raj
Manoharan
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