The Orielles have today announced details of The Goyt Method EP which is out 26th May 2023. The 5 track EP features brand new songs constructed from randomly chosen parts of tracks from their recently released, critically acclaimed fourth album, Tableau, which was released in October of last year on Heavenly Recordings.
The tracklisting of the EP, which is released on 12” and digitally, is as follows;
1. Tableau 001
2. Tableau 002
3. Improvisation 002
4. Tableau 003
5. Tableau 004
Explaining the concept and background to the EP, the band said:
Our concept for The Goyt Method was birthed from our interest in cybernetics, improvisation and experimental electronic music. We wanted to zoom out of Tableau and disconnect all the pieces, rearranging them in new ways to create variations of songs, which encapsulate the whole record. We left this part of the process completely down to chance, adopting an online roulette wheel to choose our stems. This way of creating music was familiar to us from spending a lot of time remixing and record collecting, gaining an invested interest in deep listening and avant-garde electronic music.
The name itself comes from the initial location in which we remixed with Joel Patchett, a wintery and freezing cold Goyt Mill. From here, we coined the term ‘Goytism’ or ‘to Goyt’ which was basically our way of describing the process of repurposing and resampling acoustic sounds through digital production, making them unrecognisable from their original source.
The photograph on the sleeve was taken in winter 2020, our first visit to the Mill studio, our first Goyt session.
The band have also shared a video for the track ‘Tableau 002’. Talking about the inspiration for the video, the band added:
We met up with Beck Cooley to discuss a collaboration in making a video for a Goyt Method track and instantly hit it off with our adoration for janky electronic IDM and experimental sci-fi and body horror film. We'd all recently watched 'Tetsuo: Iron Man' and suggested Beck watch it and it was here that the video concept was born. We loved the stop motion and the lo-fi noisy aesthetic of the film, the man meets machine ideology particularly appealed.
The way in which we remixed tracks from Tableau for this EP was very much inspired by a collaboration with AI and letting online randomisation choose the stems for us to pull into the track. We felt this was pretty apt and decided to pay homage to Tetsuo in a 'man meets machine' collision of metal and computers.
Also, having played a very special one-off show in association with Piccadilly Records in Manchester where they performed with full orchestral backing and 2 sold-out ‘home-coming’ shows at Hebden Bridge Trades Club at the end of last year, the band return for a full U.K. headline tour in March.
Additionally, having recently played a series of well-received performances at this year’s SxSW festival in Austin, Texas and a run of U.K. headline shows, including a sold-out London gig at the Electric in Brixton, the band head over to Europe today for further headline gigs.
The dates of the shows are as follows:
11.04.23 – Le Pont Ephemere – PARIS
12.04.23 – Paradiso – AMSTERDAM
13.04.23 – Vera – GRONINGEN
14.04.23 – Motel Mozaique - ROTTERDAM
16.04.23 – Merleyn – NIJMEGEN
17.04.23 – Rotones – LUXEMBOURG
19.04.23 – Bumann & Sohn – COLOGNE
20.04.23 – Urban Spree - BERLIN
