The Shin are: Zaza Miminoshvili (guitars, panduri, songs), Zurab J.
Gagnidze (bass, vocals, songs) and Mamuka Gaganidze (vocals,
percussion, songs). The Shin formed in 1998 in Germany, where Zaza
Miminoshvili and Zurab Gagnidze have been living since 1994. Mamuka
Gaganidze joined the band in 2002. In their native Georgia these
musicians are acclaimed among the country¹s most elite composers and
musicians.
The Shin's "instrumental theatre" is the sound of Georgia's musical
encounter with the world. In The Shin's music Georgian-style vocal
pyrotechnics, intricate polyphony and instrumental virtuosity meet
jazz scat, funk and fusion, flamenco, Ravel and Shakti. How does it
sound? Sophisticated, surprising, hip, humorous, and always
exhilarating - even at its most sensitive. The Shin¹s celebratory
musical dialogues know no bounds. Listen again and you'll hear
something new each time.
Members of The Shin have composed original works for productions at
the Tbilisi State Theatre and for film, television and radio programs
in their native Georgia and around the world. They have collaborated
internationally with artistic greats like Gia Kancheli, Robert
Sturua, Jorge Pardo, Giora Feidman, Chaka Khan, Randy Brecker, Okay
Temiz and Fuat Saka and many others. The Shin is regularly
spotlighted in international festivals and has received significant
critical acclaim for its unparalleled originality and magnetic appeal.
In Georgian shin means coming home. Although each of us has our own
home and our own road home, The Shin¹s music has the amazing ability
to lead everyone "home", no matter how far it may be. It may lead
you somewhere you know you've been before, where the windows are
fogged over from the rain and familiar smells waft in from the
kitchen, where you hear familiar voices and you understand, even when
you can¹t make out the words.
The Shin's latest project, "EgAri" ("That's it!" in Georgian),
features the trio collaborating with Georgian folk musicians, singers
and a dancer in pursuit of a quintessentially Georgian, yet
unmistakably modern, sound. EgAri is shaped around traditional
Georgian instrumental styles, polyphonic vocals, and folk dance. It
unites them for the first time ever in a brilliant aural and visual
display. EgAri is a non-conventional hybrid of archaic and modern
elements, Caucasian and non-indigenous instruments, startling
Georgian harmonies and more familiar jazz threads. For The Shin,
only a music which continuously evolves can survive. It is in this
spirit that the musicians perceive themselves not as threats to, but
as guardians of, Georgian tradition.
EgAri is a showcase for a handful of Georgia's most outstanding
musicians. It reinitiates a peaceful dialogue between East and West,
old and new, "ours" and "theirs" -a dialogue which has existed in
Georgian culture for centuries. It is possible to experience this
dialogue in the poetry of Shota Rustaveli, the paintings of Niko
Pirosmani, the architecture of Tbilisi, the choreography of George
Balanchine, the films of Otar Ioseliani, and yes...
...the music of The Shin.
Hey meine liebsten Weltmusiker - seid ihr überhaupt noch in Deutschland? Ich höre immer wieder gerne eure Kompositionen und erinnere mich lachend an unsere Lalebi "moving in circles"... Version... hoffe euch und euren Familien gehts richtig gut. Herzliche Umarmung von eurer Chris aus Berlin.
hi shins, danke für die freunschaft. wünsche euch noch viele, viele gigs überall auf dem planeten. es wird schon, ihr seid auf dem weg und der ist bekanntlich das ziel.
