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'Broken', the debut single from Ramilda.
Ramilda is the solo project of Estonian artist and experimental cellist Kirke Gross. Her forthcoming debut EP Cracked emerged from her first performances in London and marks her first release after three years immersed in the city’s experimental scene. The title is inspired by a King Crimson song, one of Kirke’s earliest memories of music that felt epic, unruly, and alive.
Raised within a strict classical education where precision and perfection were paramount, she struggled for years to imagine a place for herself as a musician. Moving to London became its own crack in her relationship to music: witnessing artists working freely and instinctively around her gave rise to a sense of permission; to fracture discipline, confront fear, and begin shaping her own voice through improvisation, performance, and movement.
Built from cello pushed to its edges - dissonance, aggression - alongside the first hints of her voice and shadowed electronics, Cracked moves between intimacy and rupture. It is both protest and release: a rejection of inherited rules of beauty, and a document of a body learning to trust and explore its own sound with renewed energy and confidence.
Alongside her solo project, Kirke is active as a free improviser. She has performed at Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Opera House as a dancer–cellist in choreographer Elisabeth Mulenga’s Christ Alone, as well as at the Southbank Centre with Bullyache. She has also collaborated with Eddie Peake and performed at London Fashion Week.
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Ramilda is the solo project of Estonian artist and experimental cellist Kirke Gross. Her forthcoming debut EP Cracked emerged from her first performances in London and marks her first release after three years immersed in the city’s experimental scene. The title is inspired by a King Crimson song, one of Kirke’s earliest memories of music that felt epic, unruly, and alive.
Raised within a strict classical education where precision and perfection were paramount, she struggled for years to imagine a place for herself as a musician. Moving to London became its own crack in her relationship to music: witnessing artists working freely and instinctively around her gave rise to a sense of permission; to fracture discipline, confront fear, and begin shaping her own voice through improvisation, performance, and movement.
Built from cello pushed to its edges - dissonance, aggression - alongside the first hints of her voice and shadowed electronics, Cracked moves between intimacy and rupture. It is both protest and release: a rejection of inherited rules of beauty, and a document of a body learning to trust and explore its own sound with renewed energy and confidence.
Alongside her solo project, Kirke is active as a free improviser. She has performed at Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Opera House as a dancer–cellist in choreographer Elisabeth Mulenga’s Christ Alone, as well as at the Southbank Centre with Bullyache. She has also collaborated with Eddie Peake and performed at London Fashion Week.
Text written by anrimeal
