The Shin - Ritsche
Channel: Jaba Shavishvili
Date: 2020-05-12

The Georgian word "shin" means «the way home». The remarkable group ---"The Shin" (established in Germany for over 10 years) has chosen this spiritual kind of journey home as their way to international success. “The Shin” follows an independent way in the European music, enriching it with unique Georgian musical colours, polyphony and rhythmic structure, which are characteristic for the Iberian-Caucasian style, originating from an ancient culture, flourishing at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. The Shin have been the real sensation of the Wiesloch Guitar Festival with their witty, brilliant, world encompassing and at the same time Georgian-rooted fusion-jazz. Georgian folk tunes, brilliantly mixed with jazz are masterly, humorously and playfully performed. This exciting and exquisite music stands for a kind of rhythmic, polyphonic improvisation, which takes its origins in old Georgian culture. What makes their music especially attractive is their effortless use of different musical styles. Drawing as it does from traditions as diverse as India, the U.S.A., the East and Europe; their music is truly unique. When musicians are as professionally versatile and mature as these four, it is doubtless safe to say that their music is perfect: rooted in tradition, they transcend that tradition. The founders of the group ZaZa Miminoshvili and Zurab Gagnidze - are both the authors of a great deal of theatre music for the performances of Robert Sturua at Georgian State Drama Theatre" Shota Rustaveli " and for more than 30 films at the studio " Georgia Film”