Pink Floyd reform to release new track in support of Ukraine
completemusicupdate.comPink Floyd have come back together and released a new track in order to raise funds for Ukraine Humanitarian Relief. The track is called ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up’ and features a sample of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, singer with the Ukrainian band Boombox.From the classic Pink Floyd line-up, David Gilmour and Nick Mason are both involved in the new recording.
They are joined on the track by bassist Guy Pratt – who, of course, has collaborated with Gilmour, Mason and Pink Floyd since the late 1980s – and, on keyboards, by Nitin Sawheny.Gilmour performed live with BoomBox in 2015 at a benefit gig in aid of the Belarus Free Theatre in London.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Khlyvnyuk called off a US tour in order to join the military defence of his country.The impetus for ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up’ came when Gilmour saw a video on social media in which Khlyvnyuk – wearing military fatigues and standing in front of Kyiv’s St Sofia Cathedral – sang the patriotic Ukrainian song ‘Oh, The Red Viburnum In The Meadow’.According to The Guardian, Gilmour explains: “I thought: that is pretty magical and maybe I can do something with this.
I’ve got a big platform that [Pink Floyd] have worked on for all these years. It’s a really difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation.
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