"Es Ari album sounds like a deep fantastic dream out of the borders of time and space. These new contrasting intonations of Georgian – Latvian collaboration creates new sounds and new world perspective. Two different musical traditions enrich each other – the Nordic roughness becomes more playful when meeting with Georgian lyrical joviality. The trip, where you are taken by Es Ari doesn't demand the language knowledge - the words are just an addition to the rich musical and harmonical language."
    "Diena", Riga, Latvia, March 2010

"One could call The Shin the Caucasian answer to the Western jazz of Pat Metheny. The musicians rival him technically, and at the same time they incorporate the very ancient musical culture of Georgia into their performances."
    Tomas Miltz, Waiblinger Kreiszeitung, March 2008

"...the evening was a success. This happened thanks to the impressive virtuosity of the musicians, their contagious enthusiasm for playing together and their charming self-irony."
    Ton Maas, Volkskrant, Amsterdam, 16.10.2007

"The stylistic power and the international overtones make the band a musical happening, in which instrumental gorgeousness and vocal excellence unite in seldom brilliance. It will be really difficult to beat the virtuosity and humorous creativity of these musicians. "
    Thomas Tritsch, Bensheimer Zeitung, 10.07.2007

"By using a crackling firework of musical phantasy, unbelievable technical brilliance and light humour, the musicians made the filled concert hall cook after only a few tunes."
    Thomas Milz, Waiblinger Kreiszeitung, January 2007

"The performance of the Georgian ensemble The Shin was a great triumph of world music. Its members proved that the detonating mixture of masculine polyphony and folk dances, elements of flamenco and ancient eastern music mixes perfectly with jazz improvisation. Indeed, their playing was so well-crafted, cheerful and lively, that it seemed quite out of place to compare their performance with any others at the festival."
    Ukrainian newspaper Kommersant, September 2007

"...Intentionally staged contrasts, elaborate arrangements and—by no means least important — the musicians' virtuosic performances yield a compellingly rich music in which seemingly incompatible musical trajectories come together in the most natural manner in a harmonious whole — the music of Georgia in its modern mode."
    Radio station WDR, "Hörzeihen" program, Germany, December 2006

"The music of this ensemble possesses vigor and richness: it’s unrestrained and full of life; it grabs the listener and draws him into the captivating world which is called Georgia."
    Martin Nied, Heilbronner Stimme, November 2006

"...the musicians of The Shin proved that with one tasteful harmonic tune it's possible to conquer the most sophisticated and overconceptual avant-garde. It shows that jazz is still a kind of artful weaving, still Music which resembles a school of dolphins in which each seems to scud by its own, but in fact they aloud together as one."
    Zvuki RU, June 2006

"As a rule, we have come to associate Georgia more with traditional polyphony than with first-rate, virtuosi jazz. But to combine both components at such a high caliber as The Shin does—this seems as inconceivable as the squaring of a circle... The Shin's music brings together tradition and improvisation in a multi-layered, emotional canvas, which is full of striking national color. With its folklore imaginaire, The Shin stakes a very real claim on a well-earned place in the lexicon of contemporary music."
    Stefan Franzen, Blue Rhythm, May 2005

"Just try to imagine a brilliant dialogue between an acoustic guitar à-la flamenco and a fretless bass, a mischievous percussion and a supersonic guruli-singing that would make Scatman John jealous, or Indian masters of playing the tabla... All the compositions performed by The Shin have this unique quality of being immediately commemorated - right away, you start to hum along and your feet begin to tap of their own accord, your hands clap and it simply becomes hard to remain seated."
    Pavel Peresvetov, for the magazine "Vash Dosug", Moscow, January 2005

"...With all due respect to the other participants, it was precisely these musicians who were to become the stars of show on that evening. In contrast to the slightly monotonous mainstream-jazz, the Georgian ethno-jazz-rock was simply magnificent. The combination of folk-melodies, at times undisguised rock-riffs, a great percussion, vocals that were crazily beautiful, true Georgian charm and a sense of humor made them the audience's favourite band. It was The Shin, which reaped the loudest applause and most "BRAVO-s!!!" Just to foreclose, at the end of the festival the group won the official prize of being the audience's favourite band."
    Festival "Jazz at the Hermitage garden" Sergey Bondarkov, "Polniy Jazz", Moscow, NN 30-31, 2005

"Without a doubt, The Shin's concert featuring R. Brecker was the best project among those which have been presented by "Eastern Promotion" so far. From the very first seconds of the concert the spectators got the most important thing: real music!"
    9th Jazz Festival, Tbilisi. "24 Hours", 07.07.2005, Tbilisi

"George Benson, John Scofield, Randy Brecker and The Shin present the jazz-constellation and prove the existence of Wonders.The concert sparkled with the musicians' magnificent solo pa-s... Brilliant dialogues between guitar, trumpet, bass, drums ad vocals melted together thus creating a feeling of a real show... The musicians' dialogues and the solo explosions combined together made dynamic emotional music - music that is created and performed by The Shin. This music has many fans; one could feel that by looking at the overflowing concert hall, at the lively reactions of the spectators as well as at the wild ovations."
    "Resonance", 08.07.2005, Tbilisi