A Briefing for the Ascent

Infobox Album | Name = A Briefing for the Ascent
Type = Album
Artist = Terry Scott Taylor


Released = 1987
Recorded = 3-D Studios (Costa Mesa, California)
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Frontline Records
Producer = Terry Scott Taylor Greg Flesch
Reviews = | Last album = "Knowledge & Innocence" (1986)
This album = "A Briefing for the Ascent"
(1987)
Next album = "John Wayne"
(1998)

"A Briefing for the Ascent" is the title of the second solo album by Daniel Amos frontman, Terry Scott Taylor, released in 1987 on Frontline Records.

A touching and fitting follow-up to 1986's "Knowledge & Innocence", which had been inspired by the loss of Taylor's grandfather and child, most of the music on this release deals with the death of the songwriter's grandmother.

Track listing

ide one

# "A Briefing For The Ascent" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch)
# "Somewhere To Elsewhere (Instrumental)" (Flesch)
# "Beyond The Wall Of Sleep" (Taylor)
# "The Wood Between The Worlds" (Taylor)
# "Changeless" (Taylor)

ide two

# "My Love, My Love" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Flesch)
# "Wars of the Heart (Instrumental)" (Taylor/Flesch)
# "Capture Me" (Taylor)
# "Where Dreams Come True" (Taylor)
# "Long, Long, Long" (George Harrison)
# (Spoken Word and Instrumental)
# "Going Home" (Music by A. Dvorak, Public Domain, Arranged and adapted by Greg Flesch and Terry Taylor)

CD reissue

The CD version of this album omits some material present on the original LP.
* A brief sketch at the beginning of the album in which Flesch (playing a desk clerk) curtly insists, with no explanation, that "Mr. Borthwick" (Taylor) enter the "picture gallery."
* Part of the "Spoken Word and Instrumental" near the end of the album.
* Brief spoken introductions to various sections of the album (i.e., "Part Three: The Battle"), recorded by Taylor in an "instructional tape" monotone.

Personnel

* Terry Scott Taylor: Guitars, keyboards and Synthesizers, Drum Programs, Synth Treatments, Vocals
* Greg Flesch: Guitars, keyboards and Synthesizers, percussion, Drum Programs, Synth Treatments
* Tim Chandler: Bass
* Steve Hindalong: drums
* Ed McTaggart: drums
* Alex MacDougall: percussion
* Dave Hackbarth: Drum Programs
* Background Vocals provided by Terry, Jerry Chamberlain, Tom Howard, Rob Watson, Crystal Lewis, Montebello First Baptist Church Choir.

Production notes

* Produced by Terry Scott Taylor and Greg Flesch.
* Orchestrations Constructed and Arranged by Terry and Greg.
* Engineer: Dave Hackbarth. Mixed by: Terry Taylor and Doug Doyle with Greg Flesch.
* Recorded at 3-D Studios, Costa Mesa, California.
* Mastered by John Matousek, Hitsville, L.A..
* Album Cover Concept: Terry, Ed McTaggart.
* Art Direction: Ed McTaggart.
* Photography: Bob Rowe.
* Photographics: Ken Baley.