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Guy Mendilow Band - Inventive World Music
Acoustic / Fusion / Folk

"overtone singing & berimbau,,,?"

JAMAICA PLAIN, Massachusetts
United States

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   Guy Mendilow Band - Inventive World Music: General Info
Member Since1/3/2006
Band Websiteguymendilow.com
Band MembersGuy Mendilow: Director; Vocals, Guitar, Berimbau, Overtone Singing, Percussion

Shannon Lambert-Ryan: Vocals, Foot Percussion

Andy Bergman: Woodwinds, Electric Mbira, Jaw Harps, Percussion

Tomoko Omura: Violin, Percussion

Rich Stein: Cajon, Frame Drums, Percussion

Record LabelEarthen Groove Records
Type of LabelIndie








   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 22 2008 11:00A
Summer in the City - Family Concert at Gold Star Mothers Park Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jul 23 2008 7:00P
International Dance Party - heARTBEAT Collective Barn Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Jul 25 2008 8:00P
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Hillsdale, New York
Jul 26 2008 8:00P
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Hillsdale, New York
Jul 27 2008 8:00P
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Hillsdale, New York
Aug 2 2008 8:00P
Champlain Valley Folk Festival Ferrisburgh, Vermont
Aug 3 2008 8:00P
Champlain Valley Folk Festival Ferrisburgh, Vermont
Aug 11 2008 8:00P
University of VT - Burlington - Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education Burlington, Vermont
Aug 12 2008 7:00P
Concert Happenings in Ridgefield Park - Outdoor Summer Concert Series Ridgefield, Connecticut
Sep 17 2008 10:00A
Honesdale High School - Assembly & Workshops Honesdale
Sep 18 2008 8:00P
Cornell University (Workshop) Ithaca, New York
Sep 19 2008 8:00P
Cornell University (Concert) Ithaca, New York
Sep 20 2008 7:30P
Helping Hands Concert Series Schoharie, New York

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   About Guy Mendilow Band - Inventive World Music
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Voted Boston's Best World Music Act Best Music Poll 2005
-Boston Phoenix

Winner, World Music Song Contest 2005
-Global Rhythm Magazine

Nominated Boston's Best World Music Act Best Music Poll 2006
Boston Phoenix


Semi-Finalist, International Songwriting Competition
2006

Top Twenty Finalist, Unisong International Songwriting Contest 2006


Winner, Director's Choice Award, Mid Atlantic Song Contest 2006




"Mendilow is no dilettante - he learned the music of these countries by living and working there - so when he sings about a massacre by paramilitaries in Chiapas, he knows what he's talking about. Given the lack of content in so much pop music today, its encouraging to hear someone continuing in the time-honored troubadour tradition traveling the world, bringing the news."
Boston Phoenix

"The glory of what [Mendilow] does is finding a common ground among different cultures. And thats what makes his music so exciting."
Jewish Advocate

"Gorgeous, enchanting sound and technically rich music wrapped up in a fun, playful atmosphere.
The Guy Mendilow Band in concert is a night of pure musical magic."
Bay Windows

Through inventive arrangements and wildly creative instrumentation, the Guy Mendilow Band transports audiences on a vibrant journey to the places Mendilow has called home- from Israel and South Africa to Mexico, Brazil and the United States - as well as a few destinations that exist only in the group's

A bow, made with car tire wire, a branch and a gourd transforms into a full drum kit in Mendilow's hands, as he playfully re-invents age-old instruments. Alongside lush vocal harmonies, woodwinds and strings, the five members of the Guy Mendilow Band create intricate textures with berimbaus, percussion, jaw harps that would make any beat-boxer's jaw drop, an electrified thumb piano and Mendilow's award-winning overtone singing. Ancient Sephardic romanceros meld with Brazilian bossa and Middle Eastern inflections. Audiences are captivated by the rare sounds drawn from the musical languages with which Mendilow has grown up, tickled by the group's down-to-earth humour, and moved by compositions and arrangements that convey experiences shared despite peoples' differences.

The group's message is coming through loud and clear. The Guy Mendilow Band performs in theaters such as New York's Tribeca Performing Arts Center and at some of the nation's most established festivals like Musikfest and the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Mendilow's innovative workshops, residencies and teacher trainings, focusing on improvisation as a tool for communication, have led to ongoing collaborations with cutting-edge international social justice organizations like Seeds of Peace and to invitations to present at schools and conferences across the United States and Brazil.

The Guy Mendilow Band is currently hard at work on its third album, to be released in early 2008.


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Parijat





Jul 17 2008 6:39 AM

Dear new friend,

Agerola W.M.F.





Jul 14 2008 3:46 PM


www. agerolawmf. it
Marilyn





Jul 14 2008 6:13 PM

Guy,
just the Narrows Festival of the Arts in September - I'm the volunteer coordinator for the Narrows.
and I'm hoping to be at the AMA in Nashville in September as well.
take care.
Guinea C





Jul 15 2008 6:08 AM

Thanks for being our friend. Greetings from all of us in The Gambia.
Psych-A-Billy





Jul 15 2008 6:32 AM

Woo-Hoo!
Popejoy Hall





Jul 10 2008 11:36 AM

Sarah Gardner





Jun 18 2008 12:56 PM

Wow, This is really fun stuff to listen to! See you at Falcon Ridge! Sarah
Federico Barabino





Jun 11 2008 3:12 AM

Wow man!!! Abrazo!
Charles Van Goidtsenhoven, Violon et Loops





May 27 2008 7:11 AM

Durme Durme... extra !!! look for Dralion music from Cirque du Soleil... I think you can do something for the Circus... beautiful... touch my soul.
MANU





May 23 2008 6:15 AM






I got this comment from MyCommentCodes. com

Frank Ommerborn





May 7 2008 12:48 AM

Thanks for the Space-Friendship

Hope all is well and my best Wishes to You

Greetings from Cologne!

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Luca Urso





May 4 2008 3:17 PM

Hello and Thank for the add! Have great time Luca www. lucaurso. com
Carmela





Apr 23 2008 9:40 AM

That beauty! Peace in my soul...
♥ Sonjaline ♥





Apr 22 2008 10:37 AM

Hello Gui!

how are you doing?

all my apologies not to have droppind by lately ...

been quite busy for my (self) defense
:)

so no plan for a gig in Paris ???
nope???
sniff
KOLJA





Apr 19 2008 3:44 AM

Hey, I'm pleased to meet you guys! Thank you for finding me & my music, I hope you've enjoyed it. Cool stuff here...

Greetings from Paris France,

kolja
Daniel Gale





Apr 17 2008 5:18 PM

Why can't we change the name to one of those? I'm down.
danny blackwell 'Mono Ya Mono'





Apr 14 2008 6:48 PM

hey thanks a lot
sincerely!
lets keep in touch
.Dana ♥. [at camp]





Apr 14 2008 7:16 PM

oh, they would be in the fantasy genre, most definitely.
not sure if you're into that, but i love it.



oh yes, those little status updates.


well, i've been on a constant journey, on my path, you know?

and as soon as i begin to find myself, and cleanse my life someone or something new steps in and i have to start from scratch. all over.




but i guess that's the vicious circle. lol.







my healer says i'm stuck in an energetic rut.







haha.
Old School Tie





Apr 14 2008 2:54 PM

Hi Guy, Hi Guys,
We try to listen to all new friends' stuff and love yours! Great to hear something different and original! "Hine Ma Tov" and "Whistlers Brother" are our favourites. Welcome to the OST "Aficionados"! Intrigued to know how you 'found' us over there in Mass. USA, but however/whatever, thanks a million for the friendship and interest in our music. Peace and good wishes. OST.
.Dana ♥. [at camp]





Apr 14 2008 3:27 PM

ahhh yes well one of my personal favorites is "east" but i can't recallthe author at the moment.


and the series by garth nix consisting of "sabriel," "lirael," and "abhorsen."

=]
Hiroko





Apr 13 2008 6:54 PM

Thank you very much for turning me on to your beautiful music! "A consciousness revolution is the only solution! Let your ART make a difference! Send the message of PEACE to the masses!....Hiro
.Dana ♥. [at camp]





Apr 13 2008 7:54 PM

wonderful!


very healing.




i especially love "awendeje" and the opening of "hine ma tov."



and i will be sure to check out dandelion wine.



=]
sofia





Apr 14 2008 2:42 AM



your music is beautiful as always!!!!

kiss
sofia
DC Cardwell





Apr 14 2008 3:04 AM

Lovely music.

The term "world music" raises alarms for me nowadays as it often connotes synthetic, soulless music without feeling or melodic sensibility, but your music is the precise opposite of that and so I've enjoyed listening to it very heartily.

In short - thanks for the add!

- DC
Singingluz





Apr 9 2008 12:06 AM

The Silence of the song


The deepest silence
flowers at the end of the song

when everything is
pronounced and sung

when melodies seems to exist no longer
but indeed settle deep down in our soul

when the words that have been spoken
seem to disappear in the air
but indeed leave our mind
with sweet remembering

when the vibrations
continue to travel
on high and low frequencies
filling our heart
with warm love

when whole of our essence
has been tuned again
enriched with new experiences


...in this silence
you can understand the song
in it's deepest
significance..

Singingluz, novembre 2007


One Love

Luz
Singingluz





Apr 8 2008 8:01 AM

Hi bro, thanks for the message, thought it would never come ;) just had visit these days of some israelian friends, made me wanting to get back to that great country.
When I wrote your message had just finished a bhajan session, you sing bhajans too?
Did I tell you that your ovetone singing is gorgious, makes me want to practise *_*

Whenever you come to Italy (and precisily in Milan,) drop me a note, would be glad to know you.

Peace, sining our light under a rainbowbridge,

OM

Luz
Soul PropRioters





Mar 31 2008 5:34 PM

Great stuff Guy..See ya one day again in Oberlin.
sofia





Mar 21 2008 9:28 AM



Have a beautiful Easter weekend!
kiss sofia!
*SakuraStar14*





Mar 6 2008 7:31 PM

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Singingluz





Mar 1 2008 3:18 PM

HI Guy! Don't know how I came to your page but I won't loose it anymore in this internetbabylon cuase I' gonna put you in my TOP for a while.
I have been in Israel for several times and I feel your free spirit in your music such as I always felt when I used to sing/play together with israelian musicians. You're people from the spirit, rooted in the heart, yarning for your freedom, melanchonic of the many sufferings, This all I can hear in your music and in all the beautiful israelain songs I've learned to sing. Probably you will know Sheva, I met them years ago in the rainbowgatherings in israel before they came to be Sheva.
Love your overtonesinging, I should practise some more hearing you!! :))

Wish you all the best in the world my brother, keep in touch 'cause 'its good to sit with brothers and sisters and sing togther for peace.'

SingingLuz
small planet





Feb 20 2008 4:18 PM

and how are you doing? playing much?
Dr-KAOLIMBA


Is Online


Feb 20 2008 6:56 PM

Hello!! from Japan.

Thank you! Arigatou!

Please try it someday!
Salsera710





Feb 16 2008 12:58 PM

hi guy! just finished watching your video...i'm inspired! hope all is well!
david