{"id":973664,"date":"2019-11-21T22:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916356"},"modified":"2019-11-21T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:35:18","slug":"hear-u2s-meditative-new-song-ahimsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-u2s-meditative-new-song-ahimsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear U2\u2019s Meditative New Song \u2018Ahimsa\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/10479493m.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/u2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_u2\" data-tag=\"u2\">U2<\/a> have unveiled new song,\u201dAhimsa,\u201d which features Indian musician A.R. Rahman. Rahman\u2019s daughters, Khatija and Raheema also contribute vocals on the track.<\/p>\n<p>On the meditative tune, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bono\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bono\" data-tag=\"bono\">Bono<\/a> sings of convening in figurative places. \u201cI\u2019ll meet you where the sky is torn\/I\u2019ll meet you in the air,\u201d he sings. The metaphors lead to the deeper concept of belonging, wherever that locale may be found. \u201cThis is an invitation\/to a high location\/For someone who wants to belong,\u201d he sings. \u201cThis is a meditation\/On your radio station\/If you like it you can sing along\/Ahimsa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rahman explained the song\u2019s themes to <a href=\"https:\/\/rollingstoneindia.com\/exclusive-a-r-rahman-and-u2-collaborate-on-new-single-ahimsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Rolling Stone India<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThe concept of&nbsp;\u2018ahimsa\u2019&nbsp;or non-violence \u2014 it\u2019s Indian, it\u2019s South Asian, it\u2019s Buddhist\u2026 and sometimes we have to remind people about love, about&nbsp;ahimsa,\u201d he said. \u201cIt takes a lot of courage to be non-violent. It takes a lot of power. It\u2019s not a weakness, it\u2019s more power than showing might; it\u2019s going beyond that, believing in something else which is not present\u2026 something that\u2019s only in your spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhimsa\u201d is the band\u2019s first new music in two years and follows the release of the group\u2019s 2017\u2019s studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-u2-faces-down-mortality-reconnects-with-the-power-of-music-204160\/\"><em>Songs of Experience<\/em><\/a>. Earlier this month, U2 kicked off their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-one-tree-hill-909888\/\">Joshua Tree 2019 tour<\/a> in Auckland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/u2-ahimsa-song-lyric-video-916356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 have unveiled new song,\u201dAhimsa,\u201d which features Indian musician A.R. Rahman. Rahman\u2019s daughters, Khatija and Raheema also contribute vocals on the track. On the meditative tune, Bono sings of convening in figurative places. \u201cI\u2019ll meet you where the sky is torn\/I\u2019ll meet you in the air,\u201d he sings. The metaphors lead to the deeper concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:38:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}