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Legendary rock band Pink Floyd is releasing a brand new single “Hey Hey Rise Up” on Friday in assist of the individuals of Ukraine, the band stated in a press release on Thursday.
It’s the primary new music from the band since 1994, and all proceeds will go to Ukrainian humanitarian reduction, the assertion added.
The tune is carried out by guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, with bass participant Man Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboard, in line with the assertion.
The tune options vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk from the Ukrainian band Boombox. The band used audio of Khlyvnyuk singing in central Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, the place he carried out “a rousing Ukrainian protest tune written in the course of the first world struggle which has been taken up internationally over the previous month in protest” in opposition to the Russian invasion.
Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren, stated within the assertion that he felt moved by Khlyvnyuk’s efficiency “in a sq. in Kyiv with this stunning gold-domed church and … within the silence of a metropolis with no visitors or background noise due to the struggle.”
“It was a strong second that made me need to put it to music,” he stated.
Pink Floyd stated the Ukrainian singer, who left his band to hitch the military, is within the hospital after being hit by shrapnel.
“We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an unbiased, peaceable democratic nation being invaded and having its individuals murdered by one of many world’s main powers,” Gimour stated.
“We need to specific our assist for Ukraine and in that approach, present that a lot of the world thinks that it’s completely flawed for a superpower to invade the unbiased democratic nation that Ukraine has turn out to be.”
The art work for the one encompasses a portray of a sunflower, Ukraine’s nationwide flower, a “direct reference” to the aged girl who was seen giving sunflower seeds to Russian troopers, the band stated.
“Hey Hey Rise Up” is the primary unique music from the band in 28 years. In 2014, the band launched an album “The Limitless River,” which was primarily ambient and instrumental music primarily based on the 1994 classes created throughout “The Division Bell.”