OuriFR/QC
Photo Credit: Kirk Lisaj
Ouri is a Montréal-based composer, producer and cellist whose music blurs the lines between classical tradition and electronic experimentation. Born in France to French and Afro-Caribbean parents, she moved to Montréal at 16 to study composition, quickly finding her voice within the city’s rave and underground scenes. Drawing from orchestral training and club culture, her sound is both intimate and expansive—anchored in the cello but propelled by textured synths and industrial edge.
Following the release of We Share Our Blood (Ghostly, 2018), Ouri gained recognition with official remixes for Tokimonsta and live performances alongside Jacques Greene and Yves Tumor. Her collaboration with Helena Deland as Hildegard revealed a new, ethereal dimension, while her debut solo album Frame of a Fauna offered a deeply personal meditation on grief, transformation, and the architecture of the body.
From London bedrooms to Brazilian goodbyes, the album charts a global, emotional terrain, where vulnerability becomes form. Ouri’s voice—delicate yet commanding—cuts through lush layers, inviting listeners into a sonic world that embraces both clarity and chaos. Refusing fixed genres or structures, she continues to carve a singular path, turning inward reflection into shared resonance.
Who
Ourielle Auvé is a Montréal-based producer, DJ, and multidisciplinary artist blending cello, harp, voice, and electronics into deeply emotive, genre-blurring compositions.
Labels
Lighter Than Air
Latest
Frame of a Fauna (Lighter Than Air, 2021)
