Endless Summer

Content Provider

Endless Summer

out on digital, cassette and postcard via Bokeh Versions and Drowned By Locals on 6th June

Love in the time of collectively assured techno-capitalist-nuclear holocaust! It's the endless

summer the Brits have been harping on about since they think they won the World Cup. The

soundtrack is the debut album of the Content Provider; where Octatrack illbient and industrial

chanson mesh in a singed postcard addressed to the UK Border Force and co-signed by aliens

plucked from the petri dishes of Young Echo, Cold Light and Avon Terror Corps.

It's a name she tried to keep anonymous, but Drowned By Locals and Bokeh Versions are

breaking contract to reveal that the Content Provider is in fact the shock production alias of

DALI DE SAINT PAUL. Patron saint of Bristol's self-destructive improv idols EP/64 as well as

post-feminist chamber collective Viridian Ensemble, avant-terror duo Harrga and constant

collaborator with the likes of *breathe* Moor Mother, Valentina Magaletti, Mariam Rezaei,

Vincent Moon, Maxwell Sterling, Ossia, Ben Vince.

And isn't it such a strange release? And won't people be surprised? Endless Summer is grubby

and heartfelt, defiant and hopeful, with flecks of warped reggae on E-System nudging the

freeform dream balladry of A Feeling and Sunday Morning, Kode9 & Spaceape-worthy dread

poetry of Close Ur Eyes next to anthemic electro-crush of Overdrive. Even to those that know

her well, and EVERYONE with their belly in the Bristol underground knows her, Endless

Summer is a revelation. Perhaps the apex of the known Dali-verse……where her live gigs have

boiled with an experimental volcanic vocal force, Endless Summer is twisted, syrupy, sultry,

POP.

SELECTED LISTING (really, you need to see her live though)

https://accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.com/album/penumbra

https://ceramicslabel.bandcamp.com/album/strange-brew-sessions

https://valentinamagaletti.bandcamp.com/album/ondata-rossa

https://ukaea.bandcamp.com/album/birds-catching-fire-in-the-sky-2

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/an-audio-introduction-to-dali-de-saint-paul

https://harrga.bandcamp.com/

https://tbceditions.bandcamp.com/album/trotula

https://permanentdraft.bandcamp.com/album/ep64-63

https://tbceditions.bandcamp.com/album/ep-64-64

https://dalidesaintpaul.bandcamp.com/

https://dedmeet.bandcamp.com/track/state-of-siege-feat-dali-de-saint-paul

https://avonterrorcorps.bandcamp.com/track/safernoc-ft-dali-de-saint-paul

https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/track/ridgeway-ft-dali-de-saint-paulhttps://avonterrorcorps.bandcamp.com/track/burden-dali-de-saint-paul-countenance

https://moormother.bandcamp.com/track/repeater-feat-dali-de-saint-paul

https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/track/simon-grab-zo-mc-pherson-feat-dali-de-saint-paul-hayati

https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/track/jay-glass-dubs-compound-dub-kinlaw-remix-ft-dali-d

e-saint-paul-franco-franco-dj-saisho

https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/track/mental-jewelry-dali-de-saint-paul-resist-my-peo

ple-resist-them-dareen-tatour

https://love-boat.bandcamp.com/track/holy-tongue-feat-dali-de-saint-paul-breicha-version

SELECTED PRESS

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/478

https://thequietus.com/interviews/dali-de-st-paul-maxwell-sterling-interview/

https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/bristol-avant-folk-music-scene-report

https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/reissue-of-the-week/ep-64-64-box-set-review/

https://internationalorange.io/ep-64-fleeting-disorientation/

https://thequietus.com/interviews/viridian-ensemble-interview/

https://thequietus.com/interviews/harrga-interview/

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issue-433

https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/avon-terror-corps-profile

https://issuu.com/alastairshuttleworth/docs/issuu_the_bristol_germ_chapter_iv

https://issuu.com/alastairshuttleworth/docs/germ_iii_issuu

https://issuu.com/alastairshuttleworth/docs/tbg2_isuu_final_

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/25/noise-punk-techno-bristol-music-scene

https://internationalorange.io/accidental-meetings-x-nyege-nyege-in-bristol/

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/462

In the words of the Content Provider herself:

"The CONTENT PROVIDER project is the way I thumb my nose to the music industry using an

alias as producer. I'd like to show that I'm not only a vocalist but a musician and that I can

produce beats too, asking a few vocalists/ MCs to do featuring - I like the idea of being the

woman who is making men sing, (when for so long, they have been making me do the singing).

What can you do with a new tool ? Explore and create with it ! In December 2019, an Octatrack

landed in the house and many tutorials later the music on this tape emerged from January 2020

to December 2022, using only the samples in the machine, all a bit old school. In September

2022, a specific track blossomed, composed after a beautiful stay near the ocean, a track full of

love and joy, affirming and celebrating these feelings in a dystopian climate : "Endless Summer"

! This track was literally craving to be shared and released, marking the beginning of

ContentProvider's adventure. Many chats later, Franco Franco, and Matt Light offered their help

and expertise to record and mix these 10 selected tracks, and Dylan Mallett to master; then

Content Provider's love boat welcomed MC's D. Ham, Franco Franco, Birthmark and

ManOnMars, all happy to throw their own words on beats. Some magic happened when one

day experimenting with pedals and fx, Dali ended up improvising "A Feeling" and recorded it

straight on her phone. Another love song from 2024, rendering the urgency in getting back to

love and desire. Love that despite creating inner confusion, warms hearts and greatly increases

one's strength like "Overdrive" asserts. We live in a strange time : we belong to places, and this

album strongly belongs to Bristol -"E-system"-, where life is harsher for many. Gentrified,

overcrowded cities are getting cold and loneliness is palpable in people's eyes -"The Urban

Solitude"-. Getting a new vision, a fresh philosophy to lead our path through -"Walking Home"

- or just having a break from grimland, picturing oneself on a quest, like in a video game -

"Abe's Flamenco" - can be a relief. Endless Summer is somehow an invitation to shift somewhere

else, because it's impossible not to be damaged nowadays playing "their" game, a gateway to

escape is needed, sometimes stand aside "Close Ur Eyes" or just lose oneself on dancefloors

"This Music", evade and dream again about love for others : lovers, friends…cherish the joy of

being together and alive when dawn arrives on a "Sunday Morning", then vanish in a dream.

Content Provider is a side project from raw experimental vocalist Dali de Saint Paul."

"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be an activist, even though the thing one is

fighting is abominable."

Michel Foucault, foreword Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze et

Felix Guattari (1972)

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Tracklist

Side A

1 This Music

2 Endless Summer

3 Abe's Flamenco feat Franco Franco

4 The Urban Solitude

5 E-System feat Man On Mars

Side B

1 A feeling

2 Close Ur Eyes feat Birthmark

3 Overdrive

4 Walking Home feat D. Ham

5 Sunday Morning