Golden Vessel – ‘getforward’

Australian songwriter/producer Maxwell Byrne, aka Golden Vessel, returns this week with a bold new ten-minute single and visual accompaniment titled ‘getforward’.

Back in October (2021) Golden Vessel gave us his highly anticipated second album “colt” which has since accumulated over 5.5 million total streams on Spotify alone.

Since then, Maxwell has also launched a few new side-projects; an indie-rock band called Lucky Idiot which came with a 5-track ep titled “Low Ceiling”, as well as a lo-fi house project called 1tbsp which came with a 4-track ep titled “kanashī”.

He’s already begun working on the next phase of music for both of those projects, as well as the next Golden Vessel album, but while we wait for those to arrive we can expect a few more creative projects along the way.

This week we get to see the first of those which is an elaborate ten-minute song called ‘getforward’ which was co-written with a few of his friends (The Nicholas, Emerson Leif & Japanese Wallpaper) and also comes with a short-film that was shot recently in the empty streets of Lymington (UK) by Australian video director Harry Deadman (who has worked on previous Golden Vessel music videos for “Less~More”, “MOONSTONE” & “BIGBRIGHT”).

Maxwell gives us some insight below into his aspiration to create such a large musical piece with a strong visual accompaniment…

“I noticed that especially in the last year I’d been gravitating to songs with longer run times that made a nice accompaniment whilst I was cooking or driving or staying calm throughout last year. I decided I wanted to try my own take on creating something that was longform but simple. I started ‘getforward’ from some Tascam-tape recordings that my friend Rutger (The Nicholas) sent me while I was on a writing trip in northern NSW. After forming the song, I sat down with another good friend of mine Caleb (Emerson Leif), and we wrote the chorus for the song. It was exciting to make something that had room to breathe, and I decided I wanted it to be perfectly 10 minutes long. I then got Japanese Wallpaper to record some final details on the song to help finish it off. It’s pretty simple but lyrically it boils down to just trying to be present and not get carried away with future thinking so much.

I also knew that I wanted this song to be accompanied by a strong visual piece and the first person I thought of was my friend Harry Deadman (who’s currently living in the UK). The original concept that we came up with for the video had to be scrapped due to the UK going into total lockdown, and after almost deciding against going ahead with a video at all we re-wrote the pitch and Harry found a way to film the new idea completely covid-safe with a small crew in the town where he was staying. Harry made the most of the empty streets of Lymington, UK and he shot the video with a local actor Jaq Rashleigh (who is also a Gas Engineer) over one weekend.” – Golden Vessel

“getforward” is available everywhere now via sumoclic.

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Credits:
Songwriting & Production by Golden Vessel
Co-Written by Rutger van Woudenberg, Caleb John Hodges, Gabriel Strum
Mixing by George Nicholas
Mastering by Ryan Schwabe
Press Photos by Maxwell Byrne
Artwork by Maximilian McKay & Maxwell Byrne
Directed by Harry Deadman
Cinematography by Maximilian McKay
Starring Jaq Rashleigh