Press for A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time
“best science-inflected music albums of 2023… highly original… delicate, captivating” – Tim Boddy New Scientist
“a very subtle and time slowing album – I mean that in the best sense. This is music that really sings of the Rivelin as it is today… working in the very noble tradition of attentive, slow burn river compositions… I found that quiet sense of acknowledgement and repurposing [of the river] in the project really moving, actually, and the sounds of the instruments have a pleasing, woozy twang and tug about them” – Kate Molleson, BBC Radio 3 New Music Show
“The album collects lulling compositions which feel more about continuity than eventfulness, a series of texturally rich drift states at odds with the constant stream of the river that underbeds them…. Tassie’s compositions unearth hidden eddies and currents in the river. As if the instruments are plotting the paths of different energies and trajectories beneath what, on the surface, seems linear and homogenous. What’s superficially constant becomes multifaceted, layered and filled with nuance when transmuted into sound.” – Daryl Worthington The Quietus
“There is a hypnotic quality, meditative about the repetition that is not quite repetition, a sense of variation within a natural flow… combining water-powered and musician-made sounds to completely intriguing effect, highly multi-layered yet feeling as if arising out of the landscape… There is something wonderfully poetic about this disc, along with a craziness that asks for it to be taken on completely its own terms. You have to listen with ears attuned to a different rhythm, but if you do then the results have a kind of magic.” – Robert Hugill Planet Hugill
“composer Benjamin Tassie… wants to give the river its voice back. Working with instrument maker Sam Underwood, he’s designed and built a set of instruments that are actually played by the Rivelin itself… the project aims to reconnect us with the living world.” – Sam Gregory Now Then Magazine
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp – Mathew Blackwell, Bandcamp Daily
Interview with Where the Leaves Fall
“A fascinating new record… get a bit of morning meditation with Tassie’s natural wonder” – Andy Raven Sings the Blues
Press for Silvertown
“the most moving pairings of architecture and music” – Russel Potter, Monocle
“London Festival of Architecture 2017: the top 20 exhibitions and events… composer Benjamin Tassie and poet Anna Freud have designed an immersive music experience inspired by the history of Silvertown” – Harriet Thorpe, Wallpaper*
