[Cover photo credit to Patrick Blaney & Peter Broderick]
Irish Post-Rock group A Burial At Sea have shared a new collaborative single with American solo musician, accompanist, composer and producer Peter Broderick (Efterklang, Villagers, Nils Frahm) through Berlin’s Pelagic Records.
“Boss Man Tony With His Big Heart” is the product of a years-long relationship that started with a chance encounter on social media in 2020. Broderick noticed a clip of Patrick Blaney’s drumming online and commented on it.
Blaney handed the raw recordings to Broderick and, over the following four years of collaboration and friendship, the idea of the song began to take shape. Finally finished, Blaney’s drum groove is still the heart of the track.
Initially slated for inclusion on the Irish band’s recent sophomore album, 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” deserved to be released separately.
A Burial At Sea’s Patrick Blaney says about the track:
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 shares:
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.
