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The Painful Truth

by Fold

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Truth Is an endangered space Truth Is associated with the painful That should not be spoken And it becomes hard to get people to value Speaking freely Dissident speech The painful truth That will to silence is growing But I see the hope People are really hungry For truth Hungry For truth We are in danger Of silencing Any form of speech That goes against What is perceived to be The status quo Truth Is an endangered space People are hungry for Provocative voices That go to the heart of the matter Because they want answers To the things that they are In crisis about Dissident speech The painful truth Is not valued in our nation But I see the hope People are really hungry For truth Hungry For truth The hope that I feel Within my own self And with other people Is that hunger for truth And for ways to live our lives More fully Dissident speech The painful truth There are things we have to say That will be wounding But I believe in The outrageous pursuit of hope A society that is full of promise And possibility People are really hungry For truth Hungry For truth And its that hunger That keeps a place For the dissenting voice That keeps the place for speaking freely

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“Truth is an endangered space” is the phrase that opens Fold’s latest piece, once again voiced by the late bell hooks and in tribute to her. Using these delicately paced statements by hooks The Painful Truth reflects today’s society in which people’s “deep longing to avoid conflict” along with their fears are being increasingly manipulated by powerful interests to stifle dissenting voices. Yet there is hope because, as bell hooks emphasises, “people are really hungry for truth.”

That sense of hope is brought to life by a beautifully cinematic, jazz-funk soundscape with horn arrangements by long-time Fold collaborator Emma Johnson.

“We are continually amazed by the prescience & brilliance of bell hooks’ observations. With each new discovery we feel her loss more keenly. Like me bell hooks was also a New Yorker. She was a professor at CUNY where my father taught for most of his career. This piece uses excerpts from a 2002 interview that triggers memories for me of how it felt to live in post-911 New York and more broadly the USA. The environment was stifling; dissident voices were ruthlessly oppressed. Many powerful forces took full advantage of the hurt and fear that people were experiencing. What bell hooks observed at that time was the beginning of a trend that has only increased since. We are now very much, as she puts it, ‘in danger of silencing any form of speech that goes against what is perceived to be the status quo.’ This is the perspective that we want to amplify right now.“
— Fold

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released May 26, 2023

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Seth Mowshowitz
Words by bell hooks (Rest In Power), edited by Seth Mowshowitz
Performed by Fold with help from…

Horn arrangements: Emma Johnson
Saxophone: Emma Johnson
Trumpet: Aaron Wood

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Leeds UK group amplifying humanitarian perspectives & critical reflections on today’s world.

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