Brian Eno - Textures (1989)

I'm listening to a lot of Brian Eno at the moment, particularly his albums with Cluster and Moebius & Roedelius, and in searching those out I stumbled on a couple of rare recordings that I hadn't heard before. 'Textures' is a 1989 album by Eno (together with his brother Roger, and Daniel Lanois) for the library music company 'Standard Music Library', consisting of edited and unedited ambient music, produced exclusively for licensed use in television programs and films. The album was purely intended for "business to business" use, and was never commercially released to the public, but a copy of the CD sold for £535.00 when offered for sale in 2014. Eleven tracks are unpublished elsewhere, and ten tracks are actually edits or versions of pieces from the previous years album 'Music for Films III' (1988), or the following ones 'The Shutov Assembly' (1992) and 'Neroli' (1993). This is the most musical and easily accessible of the four that I intend to post, as two of them are for art installations, and the other was a promo for a wine distribution company, so they are a little experimental, but I'm sure fans will want to hear them at least once, and hopefully this one more than that. 

Track listing

01 Soft Dawn 
02 The Water Garden (aka 'Cavallino')
03 Shaded Water (aka 'Alhondiga')
04 Suspicious (aka 'Lanzarote')
05 Ozone 
06 Landscape With Haze (aka 'Riverside')
07 Mirage (aka 'Triennale') 
08 River Mist (aka 'Asian River')
09 Constant Dreams ('Neroli' edit)
10 Dark Dreams 
11 Black Planet 
12 Night Thoughts 
13 Travellers 
14 Evil Thoughts 
15 Darkness 
16 Jungles 
17 Sanctuaries 
18 Menace 
19 Suspended Motion (aka 'Markgraph') 
20 The Wild (aka 'Stedelijk')
21 River Journey (extended mix of 'Asian River')