After a 28-year hiatus, British band Pink Floyd are reuniting this Friday to release a song in support of the Ukrainian people. ‘Hey Hey Get Up’ (‘Hey Hey Levántate’).
This is the first song the band has recorded since the album. ‘The Parting Bell’ (1994) and includes the voice of the Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyukfrom the rock band Boombox, featuring two Pink Floyd legends, David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
All benefits generated by ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’ will go to NGO Ukraine Humanitarian AidAs reported by the legendary London band on its Twitter account on Thursday.
“Like many, we have felt the anger and frustration of this disgrace. act of occupation Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren, wrote in his tweet, “against an independent, peaceful and democratic country and the slaughter of its people by one of the world’s greatest superpowers.”
Accompanied by Pink Floyd’s guitarist and vocalist. recordin addition to Mason, who is a founding member of the group 1965by other regular collaborators such as the bass player man pratt and keyboard player Nitin Sawhney.
The song, which ended in the studios last week, took parts of Khlyvnyuk’s voice from a clip that the Ukrainian artist posted on the Instagram social network during a concert. plaza Sofiyskaya from Kiev.
Khlyvnyuk sang Ukraine’s famous protest song from this symbolic place. last sentence naming the new Pink Floyd song.
this video It is the work of the director and screenwriter of ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’. matte white crossThe cover of the single, designed by Cuban artist Yosan León, features a drawing of Ukraine’s national flower, the sunflower.