Bill Gilonis
Bill Gilonis 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 : Robert Wyatt, News from Babel, David Thomas, Peter Blegvad, Ut, Lindsay Cooper Film Music Group, Hail and The Hat Shoes. 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. He has been living in Zürich 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 recordings have been Zürich-Bamberg, a CD of electroacoustic compositions ; Calvary Greetings by the Anglo-Dutch-American band Stepmother - "a reunion of an 80s band that never existed but should have"; and Paragraphs and Principles by Officer! and around 30 guests.
In 2009, together with Alex Julyan, he published Lost in Translation, on Lost & Found Publishing. He currently plays with the six-piece brass and woodwind ensemble Blasnost, which is based in Zurich, and the GONG Improvisation Orchestra under the direction of Ruedi Debrunner.
Selected discography
Albums
;The Work- Slow Crimes
- Live in Japan
- Rubber Cage
- See
- The 4th World
- The Last Nightingale
- Letters Home
- Differently Desperate
- Home
- Zürich-Bamberg
- Calvary Greetings
- Paragraphs and Principles
- ''WOOF 7 inches''