Pink Floyd will release new song on Friday

According to Reuters, Pink Floyd is due to release a new song on Friday to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Ukraine.

The British band's song features vocals from a Ukrainian singer who left an international tour to fight for his country and was injured, the news agency reported.

The single "Hey Hey, Rise Up" - Pink Floyd's first original new music in nearly 30 years - was recorded last week and highlights vocals by Andrey Khalivanyuk from Ukrainian band Boombox, taken from a social media post Was.

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour said he learned that Khalivanyuk – with whom he had previously performed – had made a U.S. tour with Boombox. Left Tour and returned to Ukraine to join the Territorial Defense Forces.

“Then I saw this incredible 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 or background noise because of the war,” Gilmour told Pink. Said website on Floyd.

"It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it in the music."

Gilmour said he spoke to Khalivanyuk while he was recovering from a mortar shell injury at a hospital in Kyiv.

"I played him a little song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. We both look forward to doing something personally together in the future," he said.

Gilmour said he had a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandson and was feeling the "rage and despair" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Moscow has said it is engaged in a special operation to undermine Ukraine's military capabilities and root out nationalists.

The track, which samples Khaliwynuk singing a World War One protest song, features Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason as well as Gilmour and other musicians.