Black Planet (Polish Art Postcard Flexi)
A beautiful Polish invention.
These flexis come in disguise of an art postcard and were sold in sets of three or more different pieces.
Black Planet is featured on a particular lot of these postcard sets, which are all listed here
as far as we are aware of them. Release and recording notes for all these issues are as listed under the Art Themes Series.
NOTE: A "regular" Black Planet flexi-disc does exist as well, see Black Planet (flexi).
Art Themes Series
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Details - Art Theme Series
- A set of three Polish Art Postcards featuring the track Black Planet
- Side 1 of all the flexis above shows paintings, the origin of which are yet to be traced.
- Side 2 of the first flexi gives information about exhibitions, where the work of some artist was shown and,
- on the lower part, has also a print: "SISTERS OF MERCY BLACK PLANET" .
Release And Recording Notes
| Release Notes | Recording Notes |
| * Label: - unknown - | * Track: Black Planet |
| * Catalogue#: - none - | |
| * Format: postcard-sized flexi-disc single | * As usual, the flexis are recorded only on one side. |
| * Released: most likely in the late 1980s or early 1990s (Poland) | * The recording is in mono and plays at 33 ⅓ rpm. |
Label Themes Series
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Details - Label Theme Series
- A set of three Polish Art Postcards featuring the track Black Planet.
- Side 1 of the flexis shows labels of records from various old Polish record companies.
- Side 2 gives the details about the according record and has a sticker indicating the acutal track on the postcard.
19th Century Fashion Themes Series
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Details - 19th Century Fashion Theme Series
- A set of three Polish Art Postcards featuring the track Black Planet.
- Side 1 of the flexis shows a picture taken from the 19th century French fashion magazine Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis,
- a weekly fashion herald with hand-colourised fashion plates of Victorian Paris Fashion of the time, issued from 1833 to 1922. A view of the full front page
- of one of these magazines featuring motive 1 of the present postcard flexis can be viewed here
- Side 2 has a sticker with the band name and the track title (Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet) in typewriter print and gives details
- about the origin and the printing technique used for the original picture. Many of these prints can nowadays be found in museums
- or national libraries worldwide including in Poland and are also widely available in auctions for example here.
Sources
All original prints are from the collection of the Polish National Gallery (see the pictures here below) ...
- 1 - Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis, 1894, Colourised Steel Print, 19th-Century Ladies' fashion
- 2 - Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis, 1886, Colourised Steel Print, 19th-Century Ladies' and Children's fashion
- 3 - Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis, 1890, Colourised Steel Print, 19th-Century Children's and Youth Fashion, Historical and folk costumes
