The song is executed by guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, with bass participant Man Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboard, according to the assertion.
Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-regulation and grandchildren, stated in the statement that he felt moved by Khlyvnyuk’s overall performance “in a sq. in Kyiv with this stunning gold-domed church and … in the silence of a town with no targeted visitors or qualifications sounds since of the war.”
“It was a impressive second that produced me want to place it to music,” he claimed.
Pink Floyd stated the Ukrainian singer, who remaining his band to be a part of the army, is in the medical center just after remaining strike by shrapnel.
“We, like so many, have been emotion the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an unbiased, tranquil democratic country currently being invaded and obtaining its men and women murdered by a person of the world’s significant powers,” Gimour mentioned.
“We want to express our help for Ukraine and in that way, clearly show that most of the entire world thinks that it is totally incorrect for a superpower to invade the impartial democratic state that Ukraine has grow to be.”
The artwork for the single options a portray of a sunflower, Ukraine’s national flower, a “immediate reference” to the elderly lady who was noticed giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers, the band said.