Khamira

3 musicians from Wales and 3 from India create Improvised World Music - mixing Hindustani Classical music and Welsh folk music with jazz. Unique, alive, groundbreaking!

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Khamira's music is somewhere between the cinematic scope of the Pat Metheny Group and the grunge funk of Miles Davis' 70s band, inter-twinned with passages of melancholic Welsh folk music and Indian classical virtuosity.

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Khamira first came together in 2015, touring India playing The Goa Jazz Festival, Kolkata JazzFest, Bangalore and New Delhi. They self-released their eponymous debut album in 2017, and their second album Undod/Unity was released by Tŷ Cerdd in 2022. Both albums received widespread acclaim and signalled the arrival and the maturing of an important new musical voice.

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In 2017 Khamira showcased at the Seoul Music Week, South Korea and were awarded prestigious funding to tour both Wales and India as part of the British Council UK/India Year of Culture. Khamira returned to South Korea in 2018 performing at the Ulsan Jazz Festival and the ACC World Music Festival in Guangju.

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Post-Covid Khamira returned to tour Wales in 2022 to coincide with the release of Undod/Unity, performing at the prestigious Fishguard and West Wales International Music Festival, and toured Wales again in September 2023.