After almost three many years with out creating new unique music, Pink Floyd — minus Roger Waters — has gotten again collectively in assist of Ukraine.
Guitarist and singer David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, bassist Man Pratt and composer Nitin Sawhney teamed as much as create “Hey Hey Rise Up” to assist the UN’s Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
In keeping with the Guardian, Gilmour was impressed by Ukrainian musician Andriy Khlyvnyuk from the band BoomBox. In February, Khlyvnyuk left the rock group to battle in Ukraine towards Russia whereas BoomBox was touring the US.
Gilmour noticed an Instagram video of the musician in navy gear singing a protest music in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Sq. after which felt impressed to do one thing about it.
“I believed: that's fairly magical and perhaps I can do one thing with this,” Gilmour advised the Guardian. “I’ve received a giant platform that [Pink Floyd] have labored on for all these years. It’s a extremely troublesome and irritating factor to see this terribly loopy, unjust assault by a significant energy on an unbiased, peaceable, democratic nation.
“The frustration of seeing that and considering ‘what the f–okay can I do?’ is type of insufferable.”
So Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren which are half-Ukrainian, took that frustration out and made one thing productive out of it.
The group received collectively and recorded the music and a music video, which options Mason enjoying on drums which have a portray from Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko. Waters, who left the group in 1985, reportedly didn't return for the reunion. Nonetheless, the music options Khlyvnyuk’s voice from the video that impressed Gilmour to start with.
Gilmour did attain out to Khlyvnyu, who was hospitalized for an damage within the battle.
“The following time I noticed him, he was in hospital, having been injured by a mortar,” Gilmour mentioned to the Guardian. “He confirmed me this tiny quarter-inch piece of shrapnel that had embedded itself in his cheek. He’d stored it in a plastic bag.”
Together with the brand new music, Pink Floyd additionally not too long ago introduced that they eliminated all their music from Russian and Belarusian digital music suppliers.
Gilmour hopes the music, which releases Friday, can serve an necessary goal for the individuals of Ukraine.
“I wouldn’t do that with many extra issues,” Gilmour mentioned, “nevertheless it’s so vitally, vitally necessary that folks perceive what’s happening there and do every little thing inside their energy to vary that scenario.”
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