Pink Floyd to Launch New Track ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’ for Ukraine

Pink Floyd will launch a brand new tune tomorrow in assist of the individuals of Ukraine titled “Hey Hey Rise Up.”

The brand new tune options Pink Floyd mainstays David Gilmour and Nick Mason, in addition to bassist Man Pratt and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney. Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox contributes vocals.

“Hey Hey Rise Up” marks the primary new authentic music Pink Floyd have recorded collectively since their 1994 album The Division Bell. (The largely instrumental 2014 LP The Limitless River contains music recorded throughout The Division Bell periods.)  The band recorded the tune on March 30 and pulled Khlyvnyuk’s vocals from an Instagram put up of him singing in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Sq..

The tune title is impressed by the lyrics to “The Pink Viburnum within the Meadow,” a Ukrainian protest tune written throughout World Battle I, which Khlyvnyuk was singing within the video. The final line of the tune interprets to “Hey, hey, stand up and rejoice.”

Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren, stated in an announcement, “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 individuals murdered by one of many world’s main powers.”

Gilmour first turned conscious of Khlyvnyuk in 2015, when he performed a present in London in assist of the Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group whose members typically danger persecution. Boombox have been scheduled to play that evening, however Khlyvnyuk could not make the present as a consequence of visa issues, so the remainder of Boombox backed Gilmour for his set and devoted “Want You Had been Right here” to him.

“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,” Gilmour defined. “Then I noticed this unimaginable 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 visitors or background noise due to the struggle. It was a strong second that made me wish to put it to music.” Gilmour is one among a number of rockers who has publicly reacted to the struggle in Ukraine, together with Stevie Nicks, Brian Might, David Coverdale and lots of extra.