Pink Floyd released their video for Hey hey get upa song they released to benefit Ukraine, and the band’s first new music in nearly three decades.

The song, which will raise funds for humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people, sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined longtime Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards, all backing vocals from Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox. .

This is the first new original music Pink Floyd have recorded together as a band since 1994. The dividing bell.

The track uses Andriy’s vocals taken from his Instagram post of him singing in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square red viburnum in the meadow, a catchy Ukrainian protest song written during World War I. The title of the Pink Floyd track is taken from the last line of the song which translates to “Hey, hey, get up and rejoice”. The song’s opening choral parts are from the Ukrainian Folk Song and Dance Ensemble VERYOVKA.

Gilmour, who has a daughter-in-law and grandchildren from Ukraine, said: “Like so many others, we have felt the fury and frustration of this despicable act of an independent and peaceful democratic country being invaded and whose people have been assassinated by just one of the world’s great powers. »

Gilmour explains: “In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre, whose members have been imprisoned. Pussy Riot and Ukrainian group Boombox were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set, but their singer Andriy had visa issues, so the rest of the band supported me for my set – we played wish you were Here for Andriy that night.

“Recently I read that Andriy quit his US tour with Boombox, returned to Ukraine and joined Territorial Defense.

“Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful golden-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. C It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music.

While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a mortar splinter wound. “I played him some of the song over the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both hope to do something together in person in the future.

Speaking about the track, Gilmour said, “Hopefully it will get wide support and publicity. We want to raise money for humanitarian charities and boost morale. We want to express our support for Ukraine and thus show that most of the world thinks it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become.

Stream/download to http://pinkfloyd.lnk.to/HeyHeyRiseUp