kathleen Theresa ramsey

Kathleen Theresa Ramsey composes and performs improvised music that has few restraints or pre-conceived notions with a focus on layering textures and feelings as they arrive naturally to her. Common live instrumentation includes harp and a synth or two over dreamy downtempo ambient beats.

She draws inspiration from all the greats a la Alice Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Howlin Wolf, Lonnie Liston Smith, Bach, Ravel, Bill Evans, Allan Holdsworth, Sonny Sharrock, Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Robert Fripp, Miles Davis, Matthew Halsall, Nils Frahm, Chihei Hatakeyama, Jeff Schroeder, Emma Ruth Rundle, Floating Points, John Abercrombie, Terje Rypdal, Steve Roach.

Ramsey also composes and performs for her dream pop project Rose Haze.

Untitled [Planet Harp] album is done. I'm working with a really great filmmaker to put together a visual for it later this year and am pitching to ambient labels. I welcome suggestions to find this album comprised of harp and synth a home. It's the m