condition (record/cover): NM / NM Grey cover front and back. Black labels.  Continuum / Mystères / Provisoires Agglomérats on Philips presents Kazimierz Serocki, Valentin Silvestrov, and Michel Puig in triangulation that crosses Cold War borders. Serocki represented Polish modernism, that astonishing flowering that produced Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki. Silvestrov brought Ukrainian sensibility, mysticism that would later crystallize into the "silent music" of his mature period.

Puig we've already encountered on BYG with the free jazz radicals; here he appears in more institutional context, Philips prestige rather than underground cachet. His Provisoires Agglomérats (provisional agglomerations) announces its own contingency: these sound-masses could have assembled otherwise, their current configuration is one possibility among many.

The Philips compilation demonstrates how the French label functioned as clearinghouse for European modernism, presenting Polish, Ukrainian, and French composers side by side as if borders didn't exist. In the record bins of 1970, they didn't. Music circulated where people couldn't, vinyl passports crossing checkpoints that bodies couldn't cross.