Gogol Bordello team up with New Order’s Bernard Sumner for new single ‘Solidarity’

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Gogol Bordello have joined forces with Bernard Sumner to share a cover of punk classic ‘Solidarity’. Check it out below.The new release sees the American rock band team up with the New Order member to deliver a cover of the thought-provoking ‘70s track ‘Solidarity’ – originally recorded by punk veterans Angelic Upstarts.When it was first recorded, the song was written in support of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, and went on to be the band’s most famous hit.

Now, Gogol Bordello have introduced a new, modern meaning to the original track, with the lyrics relating to ongoing attack on Ukraine.This comes as the band’s frontman Eugene Hütz – who was born in Ukraine – has worked continuously over recent months to raise awareness for his country following the invasion by Russia in 2022.The cover was arranged and mixed by Bernard Sumner of Joy Division and New Order, and also features Neil Neuton, an original member of Angelic Upstarts who plays guitar and sings backing vocals on the new version.The cover comes in two mixes, one done by Sumner called ‘Right To Freedom’ and one by Hütz called ‘Unity’ – check out both below.

Proceeds from “Solidarity” will go to Kind Deeds. “I am so proud of this purposeful and, particularly meaningful for me, collaboration with the masterful Bernard Sumner,” said Hütz of the cover. “What we made is a double tribute to the spirit of heroic defiance and human solidarity and to punk rock itself, which still serves as a cultural humanitarian corridor worldwide, bringing relief to the uprooted and the oppressed in roughest of times.”Sumner agreed, adding: “I am honoured to be asked to contribute to ‘Solidarity’.