Katsura Mouri

Katsura Mouri is a Japanese experimental turntablist, a founding member of now defunct BusRatch collective, and a manager of Parallax Records (2) store in Kyoto. Exploring the use of unconventional and often non-musical objects and materials in conjunction with prepared records and effects, in the recent years she focused on the use of portable record players to perform without being bound to a flat tabletop surface, in a similar fashion to Christian Marclay’s ‘phonoguitar’ concerts in the mid-eighties. From 1998 to 2009, Katsura Mouri was a key member of BusRatch ensemble. They released several albums and live recordings on PARA disc, including a collaborative 766181 CD with Otomo Yoshihide, and had been actively performing across Japan. BusRatch also gave several concerts in Chicago, with a highlight of their US tour being a performance with Toshio Kajiwara and Christian Marclay at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago in May 2001. After disbanding BusRatch in 2009, Mouri continued performing solo and soon went on a European tour with eRikm, Martin Tétreault, and Ignaz Schick. She also participated in Multiple Tap tours in February 2014 in UK, and in March 2015 in Mexico, presenting Japanese extreme music scene together with Toshimaru Nakamura, Pain Jerk, Junko, Tetuzi Akiyama, Ken Ikeda, Yumiko Tanaka, Makoto Kawabata, Hijokaidan and other prominent artists. In October 2015, Katsura Mouri performed at Instants Chavirés in France and participated in Luff Festival in Switzerland. She released a debut full-length solo album 11151242 on Slowdown Records in 2017, edited from various sessions and sounds recorded between 2006 and 2014.