UK Post-Rock duo A Burial At Sea teamed up with American solo musician, accompanist, composer and producer Peter Broderick (Efterklang, Villagers, Nils Frahm) for their new collaborative single “Boss Man Tony With His Big Heart,” out today September 17, 2024 via Pelagic Records. Stream the track through the Spotifyplayer below:
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“Post-Rock collective A Burial At Sea release collaboration with Peter Broderick; bittersweet »Boss Man Tony« is slow-burning product of longstanding creative partnership!”
Inimitable Post-Rock outsiders A Burial At Sea have shared a new collaborative single with prolific American solo musician, accompanist, composer and producer Peter Broderick (Efterklang, Villagers, Nils Frahm) through Berlin’s Pelagic Records.
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“Boss Man Tony With His Big Heart” is the product of a formative, years-long relationship that all started with a chance encounter on social media in 2020. A fleeting clip of fractured funk drumming caught the attention of Peter Broderick and subsequently became the catalyst for drummer and A Burial At Sea co-founder Patrick Blaney’s musical trajectory.
Blaney handed the raw recordings to Broderick and over the following four years of collaboration and friendship, the idea known then only as ‘Tony’ began to take shape. Finally finished, Blaney’s broken drum groove is still the stuttering heart of the track whilst sombre piano chords float amidst swelling bass drone and Broderick’s plaintive violin motif whilst the whole track erupts intermittently into jarring, joyous cacophony; channelling the bittersweet emotive depth for which A Burial At Sea are now renowned.
Initially slated for inclusion on the Irish band’s recent sophomore album, the critically acclaimed “Close To Home;” both Blaney and Broderick felt that, due to the deeply personal significance of its slow-burning evolution, “Boss Man Tony With His Big Heart” deserves a space all of its own.
A Burial At Sea’s Patrick Blaney on “Boss Man Tony“: “Myself and Peter met back in 2021. I was always a big fan and noticed on social media that he’d recently moved to the Motherland, so I just gave him a DM to see if he needed a drummer for any of his projects. One thing led to another and we were rehearing together for his album tour. This sessioning gig snowballed into my full-time career in music, so I’ve Peter to thank for that!
During this time we worked sporadically on a tune with the working title ‘Tony’ and finally we’ve had the time to finish it. Here’s hoping we can get more collaborations out together soon.”
Peter Broderick on “Boss Man Tony“: “In 2020 I caved and got my first smartphone to try out the wacky world of modern social media. Although I’ve since come to loathe everything about it, early on I encountered the profile of a Liverpool-based Irish drummer called Patrick and I became rather obsessed with this little clip of an unfinished song idea alternating between broken beats, sombre chord sequences and full-on, cymbal smashing abrasion.
I begged and pleaded with Paddy to turn it into a proper song and eventually he sent me the raw materials and told me to have at it! I chopped and spliced his fragments into a loose structure whilst adding elements of my own and then for a good few years ‘Tony’ sat on the backburner. It’s great to finally be putting it out there. I hope it’ll make a few heads bang as it does mine.”
