As I began digging deeper into Guy Mendilow's music, I got more fascinated: a mixture of folk, jazz, rock, overtone singing, and infused with elements of music from around the world, it really did sound like something completely unique.

Truth is, Mendilow is something of an indication of how small our world really has become. A citizen of the Great Britain, Israel, and the United States, he has lived all over the world (due to his father, a musician-turned-professor who was invited to a succession of teaching posts). Mendilow's language skills are also telling: he sings in six tongues and is fluent in four: Hebrew, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Mendilow's debut, Soar Away Home, was released in 2001 and it's a record Mendilow now sees as being more folk music than anything, but it did hint at musical explorations and a singing style that he has begun to make his own. The debut experimented with overtone singing, also known as throat singing, which is a vocal technique found in Central Asian cultures where one singer produces two pitches simultaneously.

Mendilow also just released his second CD, Guy Mendilow Live, a compilation of recordings from performances in Boston and New Jersey that captures some of the more spontaneous and magical moments that occur when musicians are onstage together.

Mendilow is also an accomplished musical educator, with classes and workshops based upon the theories of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, a Swiss composer who believed that the human body is the source of all musical ideas. He called his approach to music education Eurhythmics. It means, literally, "good rhythm". Followers of Dalcroze include theatre pioneer Constatin Stanislavski, writer George Bernard Shaw, choreographer Meredith Monk, and singer Annie Lenox, who named her band 1980?s The Eurythmics (with a slightly different spelling) after this approach.
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As I began digging deeper into Guy Mendilow's music, I got more fascinated: a mixture of folk, jazz, rock, overtone singing, and infused with elements of music from around the world, it really did sound like something completely unique. Truth is, Mendilow is something of an indication of how small our world really has become. A citizen of the Great Britain, Israel, and the United States, he has lived all over the world (due to his father, a musician-turned-professor who was invited to a succession of teaching posts). Mendilow's language skills are also telling: he sings in six tongues and is fluent in four: Hebrew, English, Span...
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