The Ukraine War leads to a re-enactment of Pink Floyd

David Gilmore, a Pink Floyd vocalist and guitarist, was already familiar with Andrei Khlivniuk, from Ukrainian rock band BoomBox, when he saw him sing in a video posted by the Russian armed forces. Khlivniuk, with whom a progressive rock band shared a scene in London at a concert in favor of the Belarus Free Theater in favor of a theater group expelled by the Belarusian government, was mobilized for his country’s militia.

The song that Khlivniuk sings is Oi u Lucy Chervona Kalina (“Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow,” in its Spanish translation), a patriotic anthem composed in 2014 in honor of the Ukrainian Battalion of the Austro-Hungarian Army. And Gilmore, as he explained to The Guardian, was motivated to create something out of this record.

The result is a song Hey get up Pink Floyd’s first composition in 28 years and which uses a sound sample by Andrei Khlivnyuk on this recording in front of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. The title comes from the last stanza of the original song, which says in its English translation: “Hey, hey, get up and rejoice” (“Hey, hey, get up and rejoice.”) Khlivniuk’s video forced many other people to record themselves performing the same song as Gave the Armed Forces the power to create a team video Gather all the votes.

The Pink Floyd video clip, which was released at midnight Thursday through Friday, begins with an explanation of where the song comes from. Some signs on the image of Russian tanks with Z painted on the surface remind us that Russia invaded Ukraine on February 22 and that Khlivniuk left a tour he and his group were in the United States to join the army: “Now pink. “Floyd joined in to support Andrew’s message of resistance,” the video reads. Matt Whitecross, co-director Road to Guantanamo And other music films such as Biographies By Ian Dior Sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll Or Oasis: Supersonic A video was shot, with a video projection of Andrei Khlivniuk behind him, the same day the band recorded the song.

The cover, which depicts a sunflower with the symbol of Ukraine, was created by Cuban artist Jose Leon, who lives in Texas. Benefits Flow And the download of the song will go to the UN Ukraine.

In 2008, after the death of keyboardist Richard Wright, the band thought they would never write again, but the invasion of Ukraine changed the mind of Gilmore, who has a Ukrainian girlfriend. “We want to express our support for Ukraine and in this way show that most of the world thinks that it is completely wrong for a superpower to invade an independent democracy, which has become Ukraine,” the musician said in the publication. A song on YouTube. The song is joined by drummer Nick Mason, 78, a founding member of Pink Floyd, sessile bassist Guy Pratt (married to Richard Wright’s daughter) and musician Nitin Soun, who replaces Wright on the keyboard.