Yasunobu Matsuura and His Group, Yoshio Kimura & The Beards, Rainbow Orchestra, Teddy Ikegaya And Latin Rhythm, Shungo Sawada Quintet

condition (records/cover): NM / VG+ (light foxing inside gatefold)

Red vinyl. Gatefold sleeve. Poster included. No obi.

Toshiba's three-disc box surveys the kayōkyoku canon with the label's mood ensembles: Yasunobu Matsuura's group, Yoshio Kimura and the Beards (Kimura being the country's definitive mood guitarist, his tremolo a national sound), the Rainbow Orchestra, Teddy Ikegaya's Latin Rhythm and the Shungo Sawada Quintet, Sawada another guitarist with a jazz pedigree slumming gloriously.

Six sides is a lot of mood, and the box is best approached as a reference work, which is what it was sold as: a taizenshū, a "complete collection," the phrase Japanese publishers use for encyclopaedias. Toshiba TR series, box with booklet.