When they discovered that their Ukrainian musician friend had to cancel the US tour to fight the Russian invasion, Pink Floyd drummed together.
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David Gilmour, Pink Floyd’s frontman, was made aware of the Instagram account of singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk in the Ukraine band BoomBox.
He and Gilmour had made an appearance together in London back in 2015.
On Instagram, Gilmour found a video of a war-weary Andriy Khlyvnyuk, who performed the song “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” in front of St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv, writes The Guardian.
By the end of February 2022, Khlyvnyuk had to cancel the band’s US tour and return home to fight the Russian invasion.
The song is a protest song from 1914, a tribute to soldiers who participated in the First World War and later in the Ukrainian War of Independence.
– It was magical and I thought I might be able to do something, use our large platform. It is difficult and frustrating to watch a great power attack an independent, peaceful, democratic nation, Gilmour told the newspaper.
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Released Friday
Band members were summoned, chords were found and sections were written for the song, but it took time before they were able to track down Andriy Khlyvnyuk.
Gilmour says that he, among other things, talked to Khlyvnyuk over FaceTime at the hospital when he had a grenade splinter removed from his cheek.
– On Tuesday he told me that he had picked up the bodies of dead compatriots and that the day had been hell. He was still very happy with the song and wrote that one day we will play it together and have a good beer afterwards, says Gilmour.
The result was the song “Hey Hey, Rise Up!”, In which Andriy Khlyvnyuk’s performance in front of the cathedral is intertwined.
The song will be released at midnight on Friday and the proceeds will go to humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
The British experimental rock band, known for their special sound effects and epic compositions, was established in 1965 and officially disbanded in 2014. The band has sold more than 250 million albums.
The last time he released new music was 28 years ago, according to The Guardian.
David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason have admittedly come together afterwards to record an album with unused material from “Division Bell”, a tribute to the late keyboardist Rick Wright. The album came out in 2014 and is called “Endless River”.
Correction: The first published version of this article stated that David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason have made a new recording of the album “Division Bell”, a tribute to the late keyboardist Rick Wright. It is not correct. The truth is that they went through unused material from The Division Bell and this became “The Endless River”, as a tribute to Wright. The album was released in 2014.
The correction was made at 22.19 on April 7, 2022.
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