BUY / STREAM “HIGH & CHOKING PT.1” JACQUES GREENE REMIX
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES CONTINUE THIS WEEK
BUY / STREAM BT002: SELF HYPNOSIS TAPE HERE
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Released 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. Today, she reveals the Jacques Greene remix of album standout track, “High & Choking Pt. 1”. “Having Jacques Greene remix one of my tracks was a dream,” says Ouri. “I remember his music being my main soundtrack while taking the metro to the conservatory in France, right before I moved to Montreal. It feels so good to hear ‘High & Choking Pt. 1’ through the JG filter.”
Jacques Greene adds “Whenever people ask me of artists from Montreal that excite and inspire me, Ouri is at the top of the pile. Shape-shifting and always breaking new ground. Frame of a Fauna is an amazing album I've come back to often. It was a joy to be asked to remix High & Choking, pt 1. For a hazed out loft in Chabanel.“
BUY / STREAM “HIGH & CHOKING PT.1” JACQUES GREENE REMIX
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Recently, the Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and producer 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
bt002: self hypnosis tape arrived right on the heels of Frame of a Fauna, which finds Ouri exploring the cycle of birth, death, and constant rebirth; transcending through the creation of this album, as she explores what lies inside the lining of the big dharma wheel: trauma, control and vulnerability.
BUY / STREAM FRAME OF A FAUNA 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
WATCH OURI’S CBC MUSIC ‘THE INTRO’ SESSION HERE
TOUR DATES
3/12 - Montreal, Mutek @ Winter Series, Club Soda ^
3/23 - New York, NY @ Public Records
4/9 - Durham, NC @ Brickside Festival
4/28 - Copenhagen, DK @ Rust
4/30 - Manchester, UK @ Mood Swings @ Yes
5/1 - Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botaniques
5/2 - London, UK @ Oslo
5/6 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire
^ = with Smerz
PRAISE FOR OURI
"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