Bill Gilonis

Who is 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 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, a CD of electroacoustic compositions.