No matter how many times I listen to this record, I always marvel at how it is about limitation. It's about knowing when to say when. In terms of actual sonic events, they're pretty few and far between. It is an impressionistic piece of music built on repetition where the idea is that Eno has created a world of sound, but you create a world of meaning within it. That's something that keeps bringing me back to this piece of music.
Another interesting thing is that this album came out right around the time the Walkman was invented, in the late '70s. You can take a cassette of Ambient 1 and walk around with it, and the world that was once confined to a hospital or an airport is now just traveling with you.
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