Bill Gilonis

Infobox musical artist |
Name = Bill Gilonis


Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = William Gilonis
Born = birth date and age|1958|7|3
London, England
Instrument = Guitar, Misc.
Genre = Avant-progressive rock,
Post-punk, Experimental
Occupation = Musician, Translator/Proofreader
Years_active = 1979 – present
Label = Recommended, Woof, Ad Hoc Records
Associated_acts = The Work, The Hat Shoes, The Lowest Note, The Miners of Banal, Bing Selfish and the Ideals ...
URL = [http://www.gilonis.ch www.gilonis.ch]

Bill Gilonis (born 1958) is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty experimental rock group The Work in 1980 with Tim Hodgkinson. The group was active intermittently until 1993, recording four albums and touring extensively, including in Russia, Japan, Finland, Yugoslavia and Switzerland.

Gilonis has also worked as a producer, sound engineer and/or musician with (among others): Robert Wyatt, News from Babel (Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins, Dagmar Krause), David Thomas, Peter Blegvad, Ut, Lindsay Cooper Film Music Group, Hail and The Hat Shoes (with Catherine Jauniaux, Tom Cora, Charles Hayward and others). Other projects include: writing and recording the music for Frida Béraud’s one-woman theatre piece, "Aus den Haaren gezogen"; a collaboration with Anja Burse on Wild Thing, an audio-visual installation piece; and a multi-media piece for the Val de Travers exhibition about Absinthe in Neuchatel, Switzerland (with Luigi Archetti, Jeroen Visser and Julien Baillod). He has been living in Zurich since 1993 where he has mixed and/or produced CDs by Swiss bands such as No Secrets in the Family, The Jellyfish Kiss and Lödig. His most recent recording - together with Canadian composer Chantale Laplante - is "Zürich-Bamberg" (Ad Hoc, 2008), a CD of electroacoustic compositions.

elected discography

Albums

The Work:
*1982 "Slow Crimes" (LP Woof Records, U.K.)
*1982 "Live in Japan" (LP Recommended Records, Japan)
*1989 "Rubber Cage" (LP/CD Woof Records, U.K.)
*1992 "See" (CD Woof Records, U.K.)

News From Babel:
*1985 "Letters Home" (LP/CD Recommended, U.K.)

The Hat Shoes:
*1992 "Differently Desperate" (LP/CD RecRec, Switzerland)
*2002 "Home" (CD RecRec, Switzerland)

Bill Gilonis & Chantale Laplante:
*2008 "Zürich-Bamberg" (CD Ad Hoc Records, USA)

External links

* [http://www.mohoho.demon.co.uk/ideals.html Bill Gilonis 'biography'] . "Meet the Ideals".
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=172637333] . "(The Work's MySpace space").
* [http://www.squidco.com/rer/Woof.discog.html SquidCo] . "Woof Discography".
*amg | id = 11:9n6xlffe5cqo | label = Bill Gilonis
* [http://www.adhocrecords.com Ad Hoc Records] . "(US label that has been rereleasing various CDs that Gilonis has been involved in, incl. The Work's entire back catalogue").