| Bill Gilonis |
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| Background information |
| Birth name |
William Gilonis |
| Born |
3 July 1958 (1958-07-03) (age 53)
London, England |
| Genres |
Avant-rock, post-punk, experimental |
| Occupations |
Musician, Translator |
| Instruments |
Guitar, Misc. |
| Years active |
1979–present |
| Labels |
Recommended, Woof, Ad Hoc Records |
| Associated acts |
The Work, The Hat Shoes, The Lowest Note, The Miners of Banal, Bing Selfish and the Ideals ... |
| Website |
www.gilonis.ch |
Bill Gilonis (born 1958) is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty experimental rock group The Work[1] 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.
[edit] Selected discography
[edit] Albums
- The Work
- Slow Crimes (1982, LP, Woof Records, UK)
- Live in Japan (1982, LP, Recommended Records, Japan)
- Rubber Cage (1989, LP/CD, Woof Records, UK)
- See (1992, CD, Woof Records, UK)
- The 4th World (2010, CD, Ad Hoc Records, USA)
- Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Bill Gilonis, Tim Hodgkinson and Robert Wyatt
- News from Babel
- The Hat Shoes
- Differently Desperate (1992, LP/CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
- Home (2002, CD, RecRec, Switzerland)
- Bill Gilonis & Chantale Laplante
- Compilation (The Lowest Note + The Work + Bill Gilonis/Tim Hodgkinson)
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1958-07-03 |
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