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 Eleven tracks are unpublished elsewhere, and ten tracks are actually edits or versions of pieces from the previous years album 'Music for Films III' (1988), or the following ones 'The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')