Embryonic Journey is an album by Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...

, the lead guitarist for Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....

 / Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. It plays acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs.- Jefferson Airplane side project :...

, and one-time (1968-1970) Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

 keyboardist Tom Constanten

Tom Constanten

Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970.-Biography:...

, consisting of the studio sessions for the recording of Kaukonen's instrumental Embryonic Journey

Embryonic Journey (instrumental)

The acoustic instrumental Embryonic Journey composed by Jefferson Airplane / Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen originally appeared as the ninth track on Jefferson Airplane's second album Surrealistic Pillow but has been often anthologized, and multiple takes were released as an album also entitled...

for the Constanten album Morning Dew. The song had originally appeared on Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow

Surrealistic Pillow

Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in February 1967.Original drummer Alexander 'Skip' Spence had left the band in mid-1966, replaced by a jazz drummer from Los Angeles, Spencer Dryden, a nephew of Charlie Chaplin. New lead vocalist...

 album in 1967. A version of the song employing MIDI technology was added as a bonus track.

Track listing

1. "Embryonic Journey: Jorma Solo" – 4:36
2. "Embryonic Journey Jorma and Tom Take No. 1" – 2:44
3. "Embryonic Journey: Different Voicing" – 3:06
4. "Embryonic Journey: Going for It" – 2:30
5. "Embryonic Journey: Doing a Quick One" – 3:10
6. "Embryonic Journey: One, Two, Three, Four" – 2:49
7. "Embryonic Journey: Take 3.14159" – 2:28
8. "Embryonic Journey: Another One, Two, Three, Four" – 2:31
9. "Embryonic Journey: Jorma and Tom One More Take" – 2:34
10. "Embryonic Journey: The Perfect Embryonic Journey" – 3:15
11. "Embryonic Journey: A MIDI Orchestration Embryonic Journey" – 2:14

Production

• L. D. Kippel – executive producer, photography
• Michael Falzarano
  Michael Falzarano
  Michael Falzarano is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has been working as a professional musician since the 1970s, most notably in Hot Tuna, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis-style rock and roll/blues band that he founded in 1986.Having signed...
  
  – producer
• Jan Betts – art
• Recorded at Sound Tek Studios, 1780 Broadway, New York