Eurovision 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra have shared their first English-language monitor, ‘Changes’ – scroll down the web page to hearken to it now.
The Ukrainian band have been victorious with their tune ‘Stefania’ in final yr’s Song Contest, which was held in Italy.
“Pray to the gods of good and evil / Make them hear my demands,” Kalush Orchestra sing within the refrain. “Break the curse and threaded the needle / Gripped between my hands.”
“This is a song about our home – where we live and how we have learned to protect it,” band chief Oleh Psiuk mentioned in a press launch. “We continue to live even when danger looms over us. The house may change with us, but what is really important and native to our traditions always remains.”
In the accompanying music video’s YouTube description, the band referred extra explicitly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “This video is a story about our Home, which has changed forever because it has seen grief and pain,” they wrote. “When the enemy comes, everyone defends their home as best they can. And we continue to live despite the danger.”
The video was filmed in Poland and takes place in a conventional home, with the members of Kalush Orchestra taking part in fairytale characters. Piper Tymofii Muzychuk turns into the Carpathian Molfar – an entity with supernatural powers – whereas KilimWoman makes her debut with the band.
Director Leonid Kolosovsky defined: “This is a narrative concerning the magical characters of the Kalush Orchestra household. Each member of this household has their very own superpower and their very own means of defending the House. Someone by prayer, somebody by deed, somebody by reality, somebody by spirituality, and somebody by magic. As is often the case within the household, all family members are very totally different and, in some locations, even reverse, however they’re collectively and every of them loves their residence.
The band are about to move out on a tour of North America, which is able to embody a efficiency at this yr’s SXSW competition. Their reside dates will proceed to boost cash to assist Ukraine, with proceeds going to the Armed Forces and for the reconstruction of cultural buildings destroyed within the conflict. Last yr, Kalush Orchestra raised 60million hryvnias (£1.3m).
Last yr, the group teamed up with Polish rapper Szpak on the only ‘Nasze Domy’, which addressed “the pain and struggles felt in Ukraine while conveying a message of hope at its core”.