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Prize recipient 08/09:
The winner is: The Shin
We are very happy to announce the decision of the international jury concerning one of the three winners of the second national competition “creole – World Music from Germany” 08/09. We hereby extend our heartfelt congratulations to our creole prize winner THE SHIN!
* The Shin (regional competition: south-west)
With their highly virtuoso blend of native polyphonies and polyrhythms, the Georgian ensemble was enthralling. A joyful and dynamic conversation between jazz-rock, flamenco and funk, their music also processes the influence of the guitarist John McLaughlin in a very original way. With its spirited dance interludes, The Shin’s stage performance was moreover one of the live highlights of the creole finale 08/09.
Black Sea Fire – The Dance of a Mysterious Culture
Musical connoisseurs’ alert: Many world music projects have stopped at the
dialogue. In its new album “Black Sea Fire”, “The Shin” now presents the new
generation of world music: a multicultural synthesis à la the Black Sea.
The gods of antiquity were loathe to give mortals fire because they were afraid man would not understand its true
purpose. Prometheus stole the fire and gave it to mankind. When he was brought to the Caucasus to be punished by
Zeus, a spark of that fire flew into the Black Sea. This spark ignited the Black Sea Fire.
Over the centuries, a number of nations grew up around the Black Sea, different cultures developed, and the warm
fire which once gave us life gradually turned into the fire of war and destruction.
Yet we are still the people of the Black Sea. The sea separates us from one another, and that is why we have become
so different in the course of time, but it is also the element, which connects us, and makes us so similar. And in its
depths there still lies the unique, all-but-forgotten culture of the Black Sea, which flares up again and again in the
various cultures on the shores of the sea.
“Black Sea Fire” celebrates the renaissance of this peaceful fire – which can turn to a bonfire on the beach, to a
blazing flame, to a glistening sparkle or to glorious fireworks over the sea - with the dance of a nearly extinct culture.
Though the basic compositions on the album come from different Black Sea countries, every composition also shows
that the culture of its respective country — which we often perceive as consummate within itself and distinct from all
others — is part of a much greater culture, the culture of the Black Sea.
According to an ancient Georgian proverb, the native sun is within you and around you. In the final project, “EgAri”,
this proverb led us to Georgia, to our own roots. But a home is not only a place of residence and one’s own family, but
our neighbours and friends as well. Along with our friends, a large number of well-known artists of the Black Sea
region, we hereby introduce to you a culture reminiscent of Atlantis itself.
With “Black Sea Fire” we envision the myth of the Black Sea with its fire, its temperament, its profundity, its emotion
and unique salty sense of humour.
Concept, composition, editing: ZaZa Miminoshvili, Zurab J. Gagnidze.
Musicians (CD): ZaZa Miminoshvili – guitar, panduri (Georgia), Zurab J. Gagnidze -bas, vocals (Georgia), Mamuka
Gaganidze - vocals, percussion (Georgia), Theodosii Spasov - kaval (Bulgaria), Nariman Umerov - accordion
(Ukraine), Davit Shanidze - vocals (Georgia), Fuat Saka - baglama, vocals (Turkey), Anatolie Stefanet - viola,
(Moldova), Iurie Focsa - accordion (Moldova), Vadim Barancea - tambal (Moldova), Alexander Khizanishvili - kaval
(Georgia), Goderdzi Hvtisiashvili - panduri, duduki, (Georgia), Mikheil Totiauri - duduki, (Georgia), Merab Sanodze -
percussion (Georgia), Metin Meto – percussion, vocal (Turkey), Shankar Lal Chaterjee – voices (India), Jatinder
Thakur – tabla (India), Friedrich Glorian – udu, voice (Germany), Hilmi Yarayici – vocal (Turkey)
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