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.
Guy Mendilow Band - Inventive World Music's Friend Space (Top 8)
Guy Mendilow Band - Inventive World Music has 1515 friends.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.'
