Pink Floyd to Launch First New Unique Music Since 1994 ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’

It has been some time, however Pink Floyd are set to launch their first new unique tune since 1994, “Hey Hey Rise Up.” The legendary prog rockers recorded the monitor in assist of Ukraine as they proceed to face assaults from Russia.

Whereas the tune doesn’t mark the return of founding member Roger Waters to the band, David Gilmour and Nick Mason had been joined by longtime bassist Man Pratt and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney. Singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox seems on the ultimate product as properly.

The monitor was recorded by the band final Wednesday, March 30, and options Khlyvnyuk’s vocals from his efficiency of the Ukrainian protest tune, “The Crimson Viburnum within the Meadow,” which was written throughout World Battle I. Pink Floyd translated the final line of the protest tune, which reads, “Hey hey stand up and rejoice,” to give you the title for theirs.

See the clip of Khlyvnyuk singing under.

“Hey Hey Rise Up” additionally serves as the primary unique tune Pink Floyd have written since their 1994 album The Division Bell. They did launch an album in 2014 referred to as The Countless River, but it surely was largely instrumental and ambient music that was initially written and recorded throughout the classes for The Division Bell. Gilmour and Mason revisited and reworked a few of the materials after the dying of keyboardist Richard Wright in 2008, and so they determined to launch it as Pink Floyd’s ultimate album.

“We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an impartial, peaceable democratic nation being invaded and having its folks murdered by one of many world’s main powers,” Gilmour mentioned in a press launch.

“Just lately I learn that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone again to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Protection,” the musician continued. “Then I noticed this unbelievable video on Instagram, the place he stands in a sq. in Kyiv with this stunning gold-domed church and sings within the silence of a metropolis with no site visitors or background noise due to the conflict. It was a strong second that made me need to put it to music.”

Khlyvnyuk was in a hospital in Kyiv for a mortar shrapnel harm when he gave Gilmour his permission to make use of his vocal pattern within the Pink Floyd monitor.

Proceeds from the brand new tune will go towards the Ukraine Humanitarian Aid Fund. It will be out Friday, April 8 at midnight. Pre-save/order it right here now.