The legendary rock band released the new single “Hey Hey Rise Up” last week to support the people of Ukraine, the band said in a statement. It is the band ‘s first new music since 1994 and all proceeds will go to Ukraine for humanitarian aid, the statement added. The song is performed by Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, with bassist Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on the keyboard. The song includes vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk from the Ukrainian band Boombox. The band used the sound of Khlyvnyuk singing in the center of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, where he performed “a fascinating Ukrainian protest song written during World War I, which spread around the world last month.” against the Russian invasion. Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian bride and grandchildren, said in the statement that he was moved by Khlyvnyuk’s performance “in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful church with a golden dome and… in the silence of a city with no movement or noise in the background due to war’s”. On Monday, Gilmour talked about how his family members sent him the clip with Khlyvnyuk singing this song in the square. “It’s just a very, very impressive interpretation and of course, due to the fact that it is a cappella and there are no other instruments that support it. So you can easily take it to a studio and do something with it,” he said. Gilmour said at the time that he was “already very disappointed with my inability to do much” for Ukraine. He described Russia’s attack on Ukraine as “disgusting”. Gilmour said it was a “terrible thing happening in Ukraine” and this song “seemed like a wonderful thing that got to my feet that I could later turn into something that was active, I hope, does some positive good” . Asked if he could imagine the band performing live with Khlyvnyuk in the future, Gilmour said: “I certainly would not rule it out.” “It would be great if we could make something like this work. And he is very keen on the idea. I have talked to him many times over the last three weeks,” he added. Gilmour said one of his conversations with the singer, who is fighting in the war, took place while he was “in a hospital bed, having been hit by a piece of shrapnel.” “He was there with a big black eye, a bandage all over his face. The reality of what he lives, what other people live there is just beyond what most of us can really understand or believe he can happen in the world. “