New Mix: Pink Floyd, Patrick Watson, Sonny Singh, more

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprise return from Pink Floyd and uplifting songs from Sonny Singh, Patrick Watson and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Pink Floyd: "Hey, Hey, Rise Up (featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox)" (Single)
2. Sonny Singh: "Aisee Preet," from Chardi Kala
3. Tuba Skinny: "Trickster's Rag," from Magnolia Stroll
4. Charlie Hickey: "Dandelions," from Nervous At Night
5. Patrick Watson & La Force: "Height of the Feeling," from Better in the Shade
6. The Good Ones: "I Dream Someday To Have a Home," from Rwanda...You See Ghosts, I See Sky

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0:00.0	For M.P.R. Music, your connected to all songs considered.
0:02.6	I'm Bob Boylan.
0:03.8	With the first new music, Pink Floyd's recorded together since 1994's The Division Bill.
0:09.8	That's 28 years ago.
0:12.0	The song is called Hey Hey Rise Up.
0:14.4	It was inspired by an Instagram clip sent to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmore
0:20.0	by his Ukrainian daughter-in-law.
0:22.2	The video shows a man singing a Ukrainian protest song
0:26.2	in an eerily empty square in Kiev.
0:56.5	That singer, Andrej Kylinyuk, sings in the Ukrainian band Boombox.
1:09.2	He'd been on tour in the U.S. and left that tour to come home and join the Ukrainian military.
1:16.2	In the short Instagram clip, he's dressed in military gear, holding a rifle,
1:20.9	and wearing a New York Yankee's baseball cap.
1:23.2	David Gilmore was so moved by the Occupel performance that he summoned his friends,
1:29.2	including Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and Ukrainian choir,
1:33.2	to release the song and raise money for Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
1:38.4	Here's their rendition of Hey Hey Rise Up.
2:08.4	.'"
2:38.4	Sun low to מביג'nh believe
3:08.4	Hey, hey, hey!
3:38.4	Hey, hey, hey, hey!
4:08.4	Hey, hey, hey!
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