Crimson Floyd guitarist David Gilmour joined CNN on Monday to speak about why the band determined to document its first tune in just about 30 years — a music in strengthen of Ukraine that includes vocals by way of a Ukrainian soldier.
The mythical rock band launched the brand new unmarried “Good day Good day Upward thrust Up” ultimate week in strengthen of the folks of Ukraine, the band stated in a commentary. It’s the primary new tune from the band since 1994, and all proceeds will move to Ukrainian humanitarian aid, the commentary added.
The music is carried out by way of Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, with bass participant Man Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboard. The music options vocals by way of Andriy Khlyvnyuk from the Ukrainian band Boombox. The band used audio of Khlyvnyuk making a song in central Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, the place he carried out “a rousing Ukrainian protest music written right through the primary Global Warfare which has been taken up the world over over the last month in protest” in opposition to the Russian invasion.
Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren, stated within the commentary that he felt moved by way of Khlyvnyuk’s efficiency “in a sq. in Kyiv with this pretty gold-domed church and … within the silence of a town with out a site visitors or background noise on account of the battle.”
On Monday, Gilmour mentioned how his members of the family despatched him the clip of Khlyvnyuk making a song that music within the sq..
“It is only a very, very placing efficiency and of path, because of the reality it is a cappella and there is not any different tools backing it. So you’ll simply take it to a studio and do one thing with it,” he stated.
Gilmour stated on the time he used to be “already very annoyed by way of my very own incapability to do the rest a lot” for Ukraine. He known as Russia’s assault on Ukraine “appalling.”
Gilmour stated it’s an “terrible factor that is occurring in Ukraine” and this music “appeared like an ideal factor to reach at my toes that I may then flip it into one thing which used to be actively, I hope, do a little certain excellent.”
Requested if he may consider the band doing a are living efficiency with Khlyvnyuk someday, Gilmour stated, “I surely would not rule it out.”
“It might be nice if we will make one thing like that paintings. And he is very prepared at the thought. I’ve spoken to him a number of occasions within the ultimate 3 weeks,” he added.
Gilmour stated that a kind of conversations he had with the singer, who’s preventing within the battle, took place whilst “he used to be in a medical institution mattress having been struck by way of a work of mortar shrapnel.”
“He used to be there with a large black eye, a bandage all over the place his face. The truth of what he is dwelling, different persons are dwelling thru there’s simply past what maximum people can in reality perceive or imagine can occur on this planet.”
