Pink Floyd veröffentlichen mit "Hey Hey Rise Up" ihr erstes, neues Lied seit 1994!
Wenn ich die Zitate von Gilmour auf der Homepage von Pink Floyd lese, kriege ich Gänsehaut!
Pink Floyd are releasing a new singlein support of the people of Ukraine entitled Hey Hey Rise Up. The single will be available on all streaming and download platforms from midnight tonight.
This is the first new original music that they have recorded together as a band since 1994's The Division Bell.
The track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards and features an
extraordinary vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian bandBoombox.
The track, recorded last Wednesday (30th March), uses Andriy's vocals taken from his Instagram post of
him singing in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square. The song itself, The Red Viburnum In The Meadow,
is a rousing Ukrainian protest song written during the first world war which has been taken up across the world over the
past month in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. The title of the Pink Floyd track is taken from the last line of the song which translates as 'Hey
Hey Rise up and rejoice'.
David, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren says:
"We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent,
peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers".
He explains how he came to know Andriy and his band Boombox.
"In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre,whose members have been imprisoned. Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band,
Boombox, were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set, but their singer Andriy had visa problems, so the rest of the band
backed me for my set – we played Wish You Were Here for Andriy that night. Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with
Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense.
Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the
silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music."
While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a
mortar shrapnel injury. "I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both hope to do something together
in person in the future."
Speaking about the track David says, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities
and raise morale. We want to express our support for Ukraine and, in that way,show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a
superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become".
The video for Hey Hey Rise Up was filmed by acclaimed director Mat Whitecross and shot on the same day as the track was recorded. David
Gilmour: "We recorded the track and video in our barn where we did all our Von Trapped Family live streams during lockdown. It's the same room
that we did the 'Barn Jams' in with Rick Wright back in 2007. Janina Pedan made the set in a day and we had Andriy singing on the screen while we
played, so the four of us had a vocalist, albeit not one who was physically present with us".
The artwork for the track features a painting of the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower, by the Cuban artist, Yosan Leon. The cover of
the single is a direct reference to the woman who was seen around the world giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and telling them to
carry them in their pockets so that when they die, sunflowers will grow.
All proceeds will go towards Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
Wenn ich die Zitate von Gilmour auf der Homepage von Pink Floyd lese, kriege ich Gänsehaut!
Pink Floyd are releasing a new singlein support of the people of Ukraine entitled Hey Hey Rise Up. The single will be available on all streaming and download platforms from midnight tonight.
This is the first new original music that they have recorded together as a band since 1994's The Division Bell.
The track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards and features an
extraordinary vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian bandBoombox.
The track, recorded last Wednesday (30th March), uses Andriy's vocals taken from his Instagram post of
him singing in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square. The song itself, The Red Viburnum In The Meadow,
is a rousing Ukrainian protest song written during the first world war which has been taken up across the world over the
past month in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. The title of the Pink Floyd track is taken from the last line of the song which translates as 'Hey
Hey Rise up and rejoice'.
David, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren says:
"We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent,
peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers".
He explains how he came to know Andriy and his band Boombox.
"In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre,whose members have been imprisoned. Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band,
Boombox, were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set, but their singer Andriy had visa problems, so the rest of the band
backed me for my set – we played Wish You Were Here for Andriy that night. Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with
Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense.
Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the
silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music."
While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a
mortar shrapnel injury. "I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both hope to do something together
in person in the future."
Speaking about the track David says, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities
and raise morale. We want to express our support for Ukraine and, in that way,show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a
superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become".
The video for Hey Hey Rise Up was filmed by acclaimed director Mat Whitecross and shot on the same day as the track was recorded. David
Gilmour: "We recorded the track and video in our barn where we did all our Von Trapped Family live streams during lockdown. It's the same room
that we did the 'Barn Jams' in with Rick Wright back in 2007. Janina Pedan made the set in a day and we had Andriy singing on the screen while we
played, so the four of us had a vocalist, albeit not one who was physically present with us".
The artwork for the track features a painting of the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower, by the Cuban artist, Yosan Leon. The cover of
the single is a direct reference to the woman who was seen around the world giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and telling them to
carry them in their pockets so that when they die, sunflowers will grow.
All proceeds will go towards Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
