| Melodya (or Melodiya) was a state-owned recording and broadcasting agency of the Soviet Union. It still exists as a radio company broadcasting “retro” music from Moscow. From the mid 1960s to the late 1980s it issued 99% of all records in the USSR. The only commercially available records from them in the west were classical music. Their performances of works by Peter Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich were valued for their authenticity. Collets Records were a short-lived record label in about 1990. They retailed from their famous shop on Charing Cross Road, London. Their artists and repertoire were suspiciously similar to Melodiya. Information is sparce, but we can speculate that they were a “Perestroika” company that existed while the USSR was coming to terms with the capitalist west. (Note: On the 31Dec 1991, it has been separated into 14 different countries). |
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