a jewel of a neuguitar´s post. just a sidenote, if you allow: imho "zenyatta mondatta" features some of the most reductionist and arty guitar work ever featured on a major success pop album. summers almost acts like a (heavily painting influenced!) new york composer´s school version of george martin, the "5th beatle", in the way he adds so much understated sophistication to the accessible song writing, rhythmic drive and sting´s pop sugar on top (i.e. the echoplexed one note tremolo solo on "the world is running down..."). it´s hard to imagine that (the ideas around) this collaboration did not also have a profound effect on AS´s mainstream work in reverse.
a jewel of a neuguitar´s post. just a sidenote, if you allow: imho "zenyatta mondatta" features some of the most reductionist and arty guitar work ever featured on a major success pop album. summers almost acts like a (heavily painting influenced!) new york composer´s school version of george martin, the "5th beatle", in the way he adds so much understated sophistication to the accessible song writing, rhythmic drive and sting´s pop sugar on top (i.e. the echoplexed one note tremolo solo on "the world is running down..."). it´s hard to imagine that (the ideas around) this collaboration did not also have a profound effect on AS´s mainstream work in reverse.