Montréal-based electronic musician Ouri creates highly sensuous, abstract dance music, incorporating pop/R&B influences on releases like 2021’s Frame of a Fauna.
Born in Paris and raised in South America, Ouri was trained in piano, harp, and cello as a youth. Relocating to Montréal to attend university, she began making and performing electronic music using a combination of hardware and software and started collaborating with several other artists from throughout the city’s music scene, including CRi and Odile Myrtil. She made her debut with 2015’s Maze, a six-song EP of lush, experimental dance tracks. This was followed by the 2017 full-length Superficial, as well as a collaborative EP with Mind Bath.
Ouri made her debut on Ghostly International with 2018’s We Share Our Blood EP, her most vocal-heavy work to date. She continued releasing singles on her own, and formed the art-pop duo Hildegard with Helena Deland, releasing their self-titled debut in 2021.
New album, Frame Of A Fauna takes the Canadian artist’s knowledge of big orchestral sound, and creates her own fusion, puncturing the classical with industrial abrasions and electronic nuance. The project inspects the framework of the body – how emotional hardship can imprint, and in turn deform the skeleton.
We chatted with OURI about the new album and her plans for the near future. Watch below:
