Pink Floyd have announced their return with a new single. Tomorrow (April 8), the storied rock outfit will share new song "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" in support of the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
"Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" is billed as the first new music from Pink Floyd since 1994's The Division Bell. Of course, 2014's The Endless River was largely based on over 20 hours of previously unreleased material recorded for that aforementioned album.
UPDATE (4/8, 1:17 p.m. ET): Hear the new song here.
Joining Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason on the single are recurring bassist Guy Pratt, keyboardist Nitin Sawhney and Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox. The single was recorded last Wednesday (March 30) alongside an accompanying music video directed by Mat Whitecross.
Khlyvnyuk vocal contributions come from an Instagram post in which he sings the 1914 Ukranian patriotic march "Oi u luzi chervona kalyna" ("Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow") in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square. Pink Floyd's new single takes its title from the English translation of the song's last line.
Gilmour said of the single in a statement, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities, and raise morale. We want express our support for Ukraine and in that 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."
Pink Floyd recently released a restored and re-edited version of live album P.U.L.S.E., and brought a wealth of other live material to streaming services. In 2021, they gave a similar treatment to 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
"Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" is billed as the first new music from Pink Floyd since 1994's The Division Bell. Of course, 2014's The Endless River was largely based on over 20 hours of previously unreleased material recorded for that aforementioned album.
UPDATE (4/8, 1:17 p.m. ET): Hear the new song here.
Joining Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason on the single are recurring bassist Guy Pratt, keyboardist Nitin Sawhney and Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox. The single was recorded last Wednesday (March 30) alongside an accompanying music video directed by Mat Whitecross.
Khlyvnyuk vocal contributions come from an Instagram post in which he sings the 1914 Ukranian patriotic march "Oi u luzi chervona kalyna" ("Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow") in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square. Pink Floyd's new single takes its title from the English translation of the song's last line.
Gilmour said of the single in a statement, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities, and raise morale. We want express our support for Ukraine and in that 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."
Pink Floyd recently released a restored and re-edited version of live album P.U.L.S.E., and brought a wealth of other live material to streaming services. In 2021, they gave a similar treatment to 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
