azersena

Azersena (Russia) / c. 1956

Corporate background:

Unknown (have info? Send to info.re.78s@shaw.ca).

This scan of an 8 inch record label is courtesy of UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt.

Thanks for info to Per Backman, who writes: “The label is certainly not pre-revolution [as previously assumed] as the spelling of "pyesnya" is modern. The record is in Russian, and probably from a Russian master, but made in Azerbaydzhan (of which Baku is the capital). The record is almost certainly from the 1950's, probably some time between 1956 and 1961.”

Design: A beautiful mandorla design, often seen in Byzantine art (‘mandorla’ is the Italian word for almond-shaped, the almond seed being symbolic of miraculous birth).

The mandorla is used to frame iconic images of holiness, which here seems to represent a statue of the Virgin and Child against a background of clouds.

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	Azersena (Russia) / c. 1956




	Corporate background: Unknown (have info? Send to info.re.78s@shaw.ca). This scan of an 8 inch record label is courtesy of UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt. Thanks for info to Per Backman, who writes: “The label is certainly not pre-revolution [as previously assumed] as the spelling of "pyesnya" is modern. The record is in Russian, and probably from a Russian master, but made in Azerbaydzhan (of which Baku is the capital). The record is almost certainly from the 1950's, probably some time between 1956 and 1961.”				Design: A beautiful mandorla design, often seen in Byzantine art (‘mandorla’ is the Italian word for almond-shaped, the almond seed being symbolic of miraculous birth). The mandorla is used to frame iconic images of holiness, which here seems to represent a statue of the Virgin and Child against a background of clouds.




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