The music for the new song was recorded on March 30 by Gilmour and Nick Masonalong with the bassist Guy Pratt and the keyboardist nitin sawhney. (Roger Waterswho split from the group in the mid-1980s, did not participate).
The guest vocalist on the new track by pink floyd it is Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the ukrainian band boom box. The voice is taken from an Instagram video she posted five weeks ago in which she sings a WWI-era Ukrainian protest song, “The Red Viburnum In The Meadow”, which has been revived as a cry against the war between Russia and Ukraine. The last line of the song translates as “Hey, hey, get up and rejoice.”
Khlyvnyuk is now in a hospital in kyiv with a mortar shrapnel wound. “I put some of the song on the phone line for him and he gave me his blessing,” Gilmour said in a statement. “We both hope to do something together in person in the future.”
An advertisement stated that “Hey Hey Rise Up” it is “the first new original music they have recorded together as a band since 1994’s ‘The Division Bell'”.
Gilmour’s interest in bringing the band out of effective retirement for this is personal: he has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren of that nationality. “We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful and democratic country being invaded and having its people killed by one of the world’s major powers,” said the singer and guitarist. it’s a statement.
A music video is also on the way, also filmed on March 30, directed by Matt Whitecross while the musicians were still gathered for the recording session. “We recorded the track and video in our barn where we did all of our Von Trapped Family live streams during the lockdown,” Gilmour said.
“It’s the same room where we did the ‘Barn Jams’ with Rick Wright. [el tecladista ahora fallecido de Pink Floyd] in 2007. Janina Pedan did the set in one day and we had Andriy singing on the screen while we played, so the four of us had a vocalist, although not one who was physically present with us.”
Gilmour has known the band Boombox since 2015, when he did a benefit show at Koko in London. While Boombox was supposed to do their own set that night, Khlyvnyuk was unable to attend due to a visa issue, and the other members ended up supporting Gilmour at his own set and dedicating “Wish You Were Here” to the absent singer.
“I recently read that Andriy had left his US tour with Boombox, gone back to Ukraine and joined Territorial Defense,” Gilmour said. “Then I saw this amazing video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic and no background noise due to war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put music to it.”
Gilmour said the purpose of the band’s new single is to “raise funds for humanitarian charities and boost morale. We want to express our support for Ukraine and in this way show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become.”
Though Pink Floyd haven’t toured since the ’90s and it’s been several years since Gilmour toured as a solo artist, Mason is about to hit the road again with his group, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, reviving the defunct Catalog Floyd from the 60’s and early 70’s.
Source: Ambito
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