Almoraima is a multi-ethnic group based in Salento, Italy dedicated to exploring the legacy of gypsy musical traditions from Andalusia to Rajasthan. Their original music ranges from modern flamenco to world jazz with a colourful sonic palette blending guitar, percussion, violin and passionate vocals.



The group takes its name from strip of Andalusian land between Jerez de la Fronteira, Cordoba and Sevilla, where Sindi gypsies from Rajasthan, North African Moors and Jews found asylum and met Spanish travellers who returned from the "New World" with innovative rhythms and sounds.



Banjara is a journey full of sounds and nomadic traditions, energy and spirituality, rituals, gestures and rhythms that evoke distant worlds. Paths of the East tracked through the footprints left in the sand by a gypsy caravan, which from the Thar Desert crosses the Mediterranean arriving in Andalucia, blending elements of two worlds and musical traditions: Eastern Arabic and Andalusian gypsy flamenco. These two musical cultures are fused in a modal way, using dance styles such as bulerias, soleà, tangos, the bolero, fandangos and the gypsy rumba.
Massimiliano Almoraima: Flamenco guitar and oud
Marco Bardoscia: Doublebass
Rachele Andrioli: Vocals
Federico Musarò: Cello
Roberto Chiga: Percussion