Textures is a 1989 album by the British

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 musician Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 consisting of edited and unedited ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, reserved only to film-makers, for licensing music in television programs and films. The album was not commercially released for the public.

Track listing

1. "Soft Dawn" – 2:22
2. "The Water Garden" – 2:55
3. "Shaded Water" – 4:17
4. "Suspicious" – 2:22
5. "Ozone" – 1:45
6. "Landscape With Haze" – 4:10
7. "Mirage" – 3:24
8. "River Mist" – 4:37
9. "Constant Dreams" – 4:01
10. "Dark Dreams" – 3:12
11. "Black Planet" – 2:56
12. "Night Thoughts" – 3:39
13. "Travellers" – 3:56
14. "Evil Thoughts" – 2:03
15. "Darkness" – 1:27
16. "Jungles" – 2:02
17. "Sanctuaries" – 1:41
18. "Menace" – 1:48
19. "Suspended Motion" – 3:45
20. "The Wild" – 4:25
21. "River Journey" – 11:14

Eleven tracks are unpublished elsewhere, ten tracks are actually edits or versions of pieces published in the previous Music For Films Vol III (1988), and in the following The Shutov Assembly (1992) and Neroli (1993).

• The Water Garden = Cavallino
• Shaded Water = Alhondiga
• Suspicions = Lanzarote
• Mirage = Triennale
• Landscape with Haze = Riverside
• River Mist = Asian River
• Constant Dreams = Neroli (edit)
• Suspended Motion = Markgraph
• The Wild = Stedelijk
• River Journey = Asian River (extended alternate mix)

Credits

Tracks 1-3, 4-11 composed by Brian Eno

Tracks 12, 13 composed by Brian Eno/Roger Eno

Tracks 14-17 composed by Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois