How a Ukranian Soldier's Instagram Post Spawned the First New Pink Floyd Song in 28 Years (pinkfloyd.com) 60
"English rock band Pink Floyd has released new music for the first time in 28 years," reports UPI, "with proceeds from the track going to humanitarian relief in Ukraine amid its ongoing conflict with Russia."
"The single will be available on all streaming and download platforms..." the band said on their official web site. [Including downloads on Amazon Music and Apple Music]. "This is the first new original music that they have recorded together as a band since 1994's The Division Bell." The track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards and features an extraordinary vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox.... David, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren says: "We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers...."
"Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense. 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. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music." While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a mortar shrapnel injury. "I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing...."
Speaking about the track David says, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities and raise morale. We want to 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".
All proceeds will go towards Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
On March 11 the band had posted another update on their official site: To stand with the world in strongly condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all of David Gilmour's solo recordings are being removed from all digital music providers in Russia and Belarus....
"The single will be available on all streaming and download platforms..." the band said on their official web site. [Including downloads on Amazon Music and Apple Music]. "This is the first new original music that they have recorded together as a band since 1994's The Division Bell." The track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason joined by long-time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards and features an extraordinary vocal performance by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox.... David, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren says: "We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers...."
"Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense. 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. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music." While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a mortar shrapnel injury. "I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing...."
Speaking about the track David says, "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity. We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities and raise morale. We want to 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".
All proceeds will go towards Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
On March 11 the band had posted another update on their official site: To stand with the world in strongly condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all of David Gilmour's solo recordings are being removed from all digital music providers in Russia and Belarus....
Great (Score:5, Funny)
Haven't the Ukrainians suffered enough?
Ukraine needs to get 100% owner ship and rights (Score:1)
Ukraine needs to get 100% owner ship and rights.
and not All proceeds so like $0.0005 per $0.99 sale? with NO IP rights and DMCA take downs.
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Haven't the Ukrainians suffered enough?
I'm sure they'll appreciate your pithy comment.
Your attitude really helps the world and brings people closer together.
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I know right? Thank goodness there are adults like you around to correct my thinking.
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Not to mention an incorrectly-deployed pronoun.
The Irony (Score:2)
Re:Great (Score:4, Funny)
I've ordered it but due to global supply chain issues and COVID-19 it's stuck in a warehouse in Portland. I'm so angry right now.
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At least its not U2 !
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True. We should be thankful for small mercies.
Re: Soundtrack (Score:5, Informative)
You are aware that the reason Europe has been buying so much Russian and oil and gas largely has to do with the view stemming out of the 1990s that economic liberalization in Russia would lead to both political liberalization and to closer integration with Europe. Now obviously that's failed in the long run, but the intentions were good. Apart from anything else, it basically saved Russia from total economic collapse
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You are aware that the reason Europe has been buying so much Russian and oil and gas largely has to do with the view stemming out of the 1990s that economic liberalization in Russia would lead to both political liberalization and to closer integration with Europe. Now obviously that's failed in the long run, but the intentions were good. Apart from anything else, it basically saved Russia from total economic collapse
No disagreement here, though as Putin has manipulated the laws to allow himself to remain in power longer and longer the problem should have become more and more obvious.
Same deal with Winnie in China. He too has made himself dictator for life. How can we not see nothing good will come from that?
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You are aware that the reason Europe has been buying so much Russian and oil and gas largely has to do with the view stemming out of the 1990s that economic liberalization in Russia would lead to both political liberalization and to closer integration with Europe.
Er ... that and the fact that Europe pretends it doesn't need oil and gas. And therefore doesn't produce it. And therefore has to buy it.
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ask why your supposed leaders keep paying Russia for energy even today, while claiming we need to fight them?
Why would we need to ask them. Is anyone actually so brain damaged that they think a trading block of 700+million people can simply change their source oil and gas on a whim in a few weeks?
The Venn diagram of people who don't understand this and people who are educated enough to read words doesn't even overlap which makes me wonder a) why you posted this in text instead of a more accessible audio format and b) why you are trolling since you can't actually be dumb enough to not know the answer already.
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Five completely unconnected sentences (I'm being generous on the last one). Did you have a point? Would you like to make it?
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Pink Floyd has done this before. The Final Cut was pretty much Roger Waters' response to the Falklands War. Of course, if this had been Waters-led Floyd, it would have been condemning Ukraine and Zelenskyy, and praising Putin's liberation of the poor Ukrainians from their neo-Nazi servitude.
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I know that Waters has finally condemned Putin, but like many in the West who for whatever reason cozied up to the man, whether for the money they could make, or because they liked anybody that challenged the West (I put Waters in this camp), it leaves them in a similar place to all of those who batted their eyelashes at Hitler in the 1930s. You can disclaim your previous adulation, but the taint is always there. I thought about buying a ticket when Waters' next tour comes around, but I don't think I partic
Re:Soundtrack (Score:5, Insightful)
War has always had a soundtrack. From Vera Lynn to John Fogerty to John Philip Sousa to "Johnny Came Marching Home", Yankee Doodle, Come Out Ye Black & Tans, and on and on and on. Even in the Bible, Joshua blew his horn during the Battle of Jericho during the conquest of Canaan.
As long as humans have been waging war, there has been war music. Songs about glory, about lament, about suffering, about courage, about victory, and about loss.
By the way, there are also war paintings, war sculptures, war architecture, war dances, etc. And no, getting rid of art will not get rid of war. War is a highly emotional experience that inspires, and inspiration leads to art.
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I strongly oppose anything to do with Pink Floyd reunions, if that helps.
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To be fair, none of the rock heroes of their generation (the Reagan to Clinton years) have made anything close to a great comeback.
Agreed. I've been waiting for another decent Yes album for 42 years.
Re:A few reasons why today's Internet is a nightma (Score:4, Informative)
It's kind of funny, because after the 2005 reunion, someone asked Mason if he'd ever consider another reunion, and he said, well, maybe if they declared peace in the Middle East. That being said, there was a kind of semi-reunion in 2013-14 when they took the outtakes from the Division Bell and Mason and Gilmour did some additional overdubs, but that was more of a celebration of Rick Wright.
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It seems I just woke up from a time wrap. I didn't realize Pink Floyd released any albums after The Wall.
The Final Cut and The Division Bell are both good albums. Quite different from one another as well. The Final Cut continues the Wall-like like war is hell theme into the cold war, could have been the third Wall CD. The Division Bell is more modern (such as it was at the time).
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The Final Cut also represents the late Waters-era problem of melody being sacrificed to screeching vocals and pretty angular and often unlistenable music. The highlights of the Wall, like Comfortably Numb and Hey You, are all cowritten by Gimour, but The Final Cut itself was in fact credited as "Roger Waters and Pink Floyd" and is by far the most musically dull and monotonous of the Pink Floyd releases. When Gilmour and Mason recorded A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Wright was a hired gun for those sessions, a
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Errr, Deep Purple.
Their run with Steve Morse was certainly eye-opening in just how much they could still swing.
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Every article on Slashdot always just says "You are not allowed to use this resource." where there is supposed to be a form to submit a comment.
That's obviously untrue. Pity.
Re: A few reasons why today's Internet is a nightm (Score:1)
Where is Roger's Bleeding Hearts Club Band? (Score:1)
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David & Nick upstaged Roger Waters on this one.
Everything Roger has done in the past 40 years sounds like a Bleeding Hearts Club Band.
Re:Where is Roger's Bleeding Hearts Club Band? (Score:4, Informative)
Considering Roger's up-until-very-recently pro-Putin stance, that wasn't hard to do. Roger Waters isn't completely wrong in his world view, but sometimes his need to be "fair" leads to some pretty astonishingly tone deaf declarations. It was Waters' politicization of Pink Floyd in the Final Cut that was the last straw for David Gilmour, who, while not apparently being a pro-war kind of guy, at least sort of recognized there's nuance in the world.
That all being said, I do like Waters' third solo album, Amused to Death. The rest really awful listenable crap, whereas Gilmour and Mason-led Floyd weren't breaking any records in the creativity department, at least were listenable and had elements of music like melody, harmony and vocal tracks that didn't sound like Yoko Ono mating with a tom cat with a thing for erotic asphyxiation. The last album is just a muddle, like two or three good songs and the last half of the record sounding like the shitty outtakes from Animals.
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There is one song with a missile strike sound effect that really works out my subs. Makes the whole house shake, as I expect it was intended to do.
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Amused to Death, as a piece of sonic glory, is pretty amazing. I've listened to it on hidef equipment and yeah, that missile strike on It All Makes Perfect Sense, with Marv Albert doing a running sports commentary, is pretty damned effective. But there are also a lot of rumors circulating around that Waters had a lot of help with constructing those songs, because the record company had been pretty displeased with Radio KAOS. I think it's an effective political statement and it's certainly the best of his so
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Slashdot poll - (Score:2)
What movie do you think it will synch with?
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Tank Girl.
Pulling no punches (Score:5, Informative)
Ukraine’s view on Europe buying Russian gas. [twitter.com]
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If Ukraine provided an alternative that didn't involve the collapse of agriculture and the freezing of people in their homes then they could criticise. But since they don't they can't. It's one thing to criticise policy (the policy is to massively reduce Russian oil and gas, so I doubt they'll criticise that much), but it's quite another to criticise the reality that these things take time.
Incidentally you know one of the biggest issues in the Netherlands right now? Gazprom not filling one of the reservoirs
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For the last 20-30 years there was this thought that closer economic ties with Russia, will help the peace, since no rational person would risk losing hundreds of billions income every year, right? Well turns out, some (most ?) dictators are kinda irrational.
Europe is turning as fast as it can. I haven't seen such drastic changes and actions ever before.
Position taken by Roger Waters (Score:4, Informative)
For many, Pink Floyd is also (originally/mostly) Roger Waters, well known for his activism.
His response to a young Ukrainian asking him to express his position is of interest too:
- https://www.facebook.com/watch... [facebook.com]
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Western arms do seem to have had an effect though, with Russian forces now leaving the area around Kiev. I fear that without those arms, the whole of Ukraine would now be under the control of the Russian Federation.
Sometimes yo
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Position taken by readers: Who the fuck watches a video to read text.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. (NO FUCKING SHIT)
That's a shame (Score:2)
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Western arms do seem to have had an effect though, with Russian forces now leaving the area around Kiev. I fear that without those arms, the whole of Ukraine would now be under the control of the Russian Federation.
Sometimes yo
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"News for Nerds" (Score:2)
Now we know.. (Score:1)
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If you want to see racial double standards, read some Kendi. Although I am guessing based on the gibberish you're spouting, you already have.
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The Kiffness (Score:2)
The South African musician “The Kiffness” has also done a remix, which has had over 5 million views, with all proceeds going to Ukraine support:
https://youtu.be/lu8m5FA2nL8 [youtu.be]
I’d be curious whether it was this version or the raw unmixed version that caught Pink Floyd’s attention?