condition: NM / NM

Released in 2009 to mark forty years of Embryo, this double CD draws twenty-eight rare and unreleased tracks straight from Christian Burchard's archive, sketching one of the most extraordinary travelogues in the music: a band that played the Fehmarn festival directly after Hendrix in 1970, helped found Germany's first musician-owned label, and spent decades collaborating with everyone from Charlie Mariano and Mal Waldron to players met in Bombay, Lagos, and Morocco.

The booklet, dense with photographs and history, is half the pleasure. Less an album than a map of a forty-year journey. On Trikont.