MONTREAL BASED MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST AND PRODUCER HEADS OUT ON THE ROAD TO SUPPORT ACCLAIMED NEW LP FRAME OF A FAUNA
"effortless and sublime" - PAPER Magazine
"a richly rewarding left turn" -The FADER
“Frame of a Fauna presents a compelling archive of Ouri's many musical personas. It's a nuanced encapsulation of her sound from underground DJ to fully-rounded composer. “ Exclaim!
"a master at crafting synth soundscapes that flow with ease and unexpectedly morph and shapeshift over the course of the track while grounding it all with her own airy vocals." - CBC Music
"expertly guides listeners through a narrative of anticipation, climax and release" - Office Magazine
"equal parts comforting and transcendent" - V Magazine
"dials in swooping sounds, echoey vocal syllables, a glitchy beat, tentative chords; the dance beat solidifies, falls away and reappears" - The New York Times
BUY / STREAM FRAME OF A FAUNA HERE
WATCH OURI’S CBC MUSIC ‘THE INTRO’ SESSION HERE
Photo Credit : Hamza Abouelouafaa // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
Released late last year, Ouri’s (Ourielle Auvé) Frame of a Fauna takes the Canadian artist's knowledge of big orchestral sound, and creates her own fusion. Currently finishing up a week-long run across Europe, Ouri now prepares to take the album out on the road in North America, including Canadian performances in Montreal and Toronto with Grammy Award Winner Arooj Aftab and a U.S. tour with Tirzah. All dates are listed below.
Flowing across 14-tracks, Frame of a Fauna, veers between ethereal soundscapes and experimental-pop electronics. The project inspects the framework of the body - how emotional hardship can imprint, and in turn deform the skeleton. If the bones are the container that stands the test of what is being contained - What is the residue of happening? And where does it go? She notices the way time can rupture a rib cage, pull out the collar bones, or make a fist out of fingers.
The cycle of birth, death, and constant rebirth sends Ouri transcending through the creation of this album, as she explores what lies inside the lining of the big dharma wheel: trauma, control and vulnerability. The album begins in a bedroom in London, and hops to Berlin where she witnessed her sister give birth - and sees its completion a year later after a sudden trip to Brazil, where she said her last goodbye to her mother.
WATCH “GRIP” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
WATCH "CHAINS" (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
Recently Ouri announced her first offering of 2022 with the project bt002: self hypnosis tape. The 7-track project is meditative and ambient in nature, with piano-driven instrumentals from Zach Frampton showing off a different side of Ouri's abilities for something more improvisational.
BUY / STREAM BT002: SELF HYPNOSIS TAPE HERE
Last year Ouri also released a joint project with Helena Deland, Hildegard, which received widespread critical acclaim with Pitchfork praising the collaboration as "pure creative symbiosis" and The FADER describing as, "a hypnotic composition that ebbs in and out of darkness, mining strength in synchronicity."
Known professionally as Ouri, Auvé grew up in France and moved to Montreal at the age of 16 with dreams of becoming a composer. As Ouri developed her compositional ability, as well as her production and vocal chops, she integrated herself with late-night DJ sets in Montreal's underground rave scene and was eventually selected to take part in Red Bull Music Academy's Montreal Bass Camp. From there, her profile began to grow as she headlined Boiler Room's Montreal showcase, toured with the likes of Yves Tumor and Jacques Greene, released her first EPs Superficial and We Share Our Blood, and collaborated with fellow Montreal artist Helena Deland on the interdimensional Hildegard.
Read more about Ouri at : www.killbeatmusic.com/ouri
OURI TOUR DATES
May 6: Paris, FR l La Boule Noire
May 23: Santa Ana, CA l Constellation Room^
May 24: Los Angeles, CA l Belasco^
May 25: San Francisco, CA l August Hall^
May 27: Brooklyn, NY l Brooklyn Steele^
May 28: Silver Spring, MD l The Fillmore^
June 16 - Mural Festival l Montreal, QC (DJ set)
July 5: Montreal, QC l Montreal International Jazz Festival*
July 8: Toronto, ON l The Axis Club*
July 22: Baie-Saint-Paul, QC l Le Festif
July 23: Sudbury, ON l River & Sky Festival
Aug 11 - Festival Musique du Bout du Monde l Gaspé, QC
^ with Tirzah
* with Arooj Aftab