TOalso i Pink Floyd to support of the Ukrainian people and against war. The rock band, one of the most popular on the music scene, is going to publish today, April 8th Hey Hey Rise Up. A unreleased song, the first after 28 years: The Division Bell, in fact, it dates back to 1994. For Pink Floyd, therefore, it is a return to the scene. And for a good cause.
Pink Floyd and the new song for Ukraine
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The new piece «sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by longtime Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Nitin Sawhney on keyboardsall accompanied by the extraordinary voice of Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox»Reports the Instagram post of the musical group.
Proceeds will go to Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief in support of the Ukrainian people.
The voice recorded in Kiev
The peculiarity of this piece is precisely the collaboration with the Ukrainian band. “The track uses the voice of Andriy taken from his Instagram post singing, in Sofiyskaya Square in Kiev, “Oh, The Red Viburnum In The Meadow”, an overwhelming Ukrainian popular protest song written during the First World War.
The title of the Pink Floyd song is taken from the last line of the song which translates as “Hey, hey, rise up and rejoice” »wrote the band on Instagram.
The war in Ukraine, “A cowardly act”
Then, on social media, Pink Floyd explain that Gilmour has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren. “We, like many, we felt the fury and frustration of this cowardly act of an independent and peaceful democratic country that was invaded and its people killed from one of the major world powers, ”said Gimour.
And, again: «I hope he can receive great support. We want to raise funds and raise morale. We want to show our support for Ukraine and, in this way, show that most of the world thinks it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the democratic and independent country that Ukraine has become ”.
A symbolic cover, a sunflower
Nothing in Pink Floy’s new work is left to chance. Not even the cover of the single where a painting of the «national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower, the work of Cuban artist Yosan Leon.
The cover of the single is a reference to the woman who has been seen around the world giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers telling them to carry them in their pockets so that when they die, the sunflowers grow. “
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