Montreal electronic Ouri has released new single “Behave!,” featuring Charlotte Day Wilson. Says Ouri: “In the middle of last year, after a few months of touring together, I played Charlotte a couple demos I had been working on.” “I had been spending more time creating loops of voice and harp that I kept raw, unfiltered, sharpening the contours of my presence. The song starts to shape up instinctually, like a kid that is being ordered to stay in one place but the young mind starts to wander and soon enough, the body follows. We ended up toying with this classic R’nB feel but kept it confrontational in the approach, leaning towards this hyperreal sense that surrounds my world.”

Ouri describes her process as creating through “secret neural pathways,” chasing “the sudden sensorial intensity of that state”. She speaks of textures that are “raw/sharp but soft,” tracing themes of resistance, belonging, and desire. On tour with Charlotte Day Wilson, the two developed an unspoken musical language—“two women freely jumping from one idea to the next”—a trust that would later anchor their collaboration, the new single, “Behave !”.

Ouri released her debut album, Frame of a Fauna, in 2022, it was later was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize; she has also released two Hildegard albums, her acclaimed collaboration with Helena Deland. In recent years, she has toured alongside Charlotte Day Wilson, Yaeji, Tirzah, and Smerz.

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