ANDY SUMMERS - Mysterious Barricades (1989) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

The former Police guitarist's first solo instrumental album turns out to be a gentle, thoroughly domesticated continuation of his looping soundscapes with Robert Fripp earlier in the 1980s ("I Advance Masked"). Keyboardist David Hentschel is a co-conspirator on several tracks, though Summers is perfectly content to go it alone on others. With its repeated guitar loops, interactive counterlines, gentle washes of keyboards, advancing and receding waves of effects, Summers is out to sooth and refresh, not to challenge and disturb -- and the music drifts lazily toward the shores of the soporific New Age. "Shining Sea" definitely has a kinship with the sound of the Fripp collaborations, but shorn of their forbidding edges, and the rest floats in and out, leaving barely a trace behind. It's all very pretty and it all sounds somewhat innocuous today, now that the phenomenon of tape or digital loops is no longer an avant-garde pet preserve. by Richard S. Ginell
Tracklist:
1     Red Balloon 3:33
David Hentschel / Andy Summers
2     Mysterious Barricades 3:06
Andy Summers
3     When That Day Comes 1:20
Andy Summers
4     Train Song 2:34
Andy Summers
5     Luna 2:28
Andy Summers
6     Satyric Dancer 3:45
David Hentschel / Andy Summers
7     Shining Sea 3:24
Andy Summers
8     Emperor's Last Straw 4:27
Andy Summers
9     Rain 3:12
Andy Summers
10     Tomorrow 3:22
Andy Summers
11     In Praise of Shadows 3:13
Andy Summers
12     The Lost Marbles 4:43
Andy Summers
13     How Can I Forget 2:36
Andy Summers
Credits:
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Andy Summers
Keyboards – David Hentschel
Written-By – Andy Summers, David Hentschel (faixas: 1, 6, 12)