sound library

condition (record/cover): NM / EX

Gatefold sleeve with glued-in insert. Obi included.

The single-disc, lyrical companion to the box: its title is a promise of ryojō, that untranslatable Japanese word for the feeling of being somewhere far from home on a train, and the record delivers it as a sequence of departures, river crossings and arrivals rather than as a catalogue. Part of Victor's Documentary series (the sleeve subtitle translates roughly as "seasonal scenes written in sound"), sold in the same shops as enka records and bought by the same people.

Green Victor label, gatefold with monochrome locomotive photographs inside, obi. A record about loss disguised as a record about trains.