Today (April 8th) Pink Floyd has released the new track “Hey Hey Rise Up” in support of the people of Ukraine…
The song features Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time bassist Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards — along with a vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox.
The track, recorded on March 30th, uses Andriy’s vocals taken from his Instagram post of him singing in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square…
According to the song’s press release, “The song itself ‘The Red Viburnum In The Meadow‘ is a rousing Ukrainian protest song written during the first world war which has been taken up across the world over the past month in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. The title of the Pink Floyd track is taken from the last line of the song which translates as ‘Hey hey rise up and rejoice.'”
The song is available for digital download here.
