# Bill Gilonis > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bill_Gilonis > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bill_Gilonis.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gilonis > Source revision: 1172230585 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Bill Gilonis** (born 3 July 1958) is an [English](/source/England) guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty [experimental rock](/source/Experimental_rock) group [The Work](/source/The_Work_(band))[1][2] in 1980 with [Tim Hodgkinson](/source/Tim_Hodgkinson). The group was active intermittently until 1993, recording four albums and touring extensively, including in [Russia](/source/Russia), [Japan](/source/Japan)[3] [Finland](/source/Finland), [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia) and [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland). Gilonis has also worked as a producer, sound engineer and/or musician with (among others): [Robert Wyatt](/source/Robert_Wyatt), [News from Babel](/source/News_from_Babel) ([Chris Cutler](/source/Chris_Cutler), [Lindsay Cooper](/source/Lindsay_Cooper), [Zeena Parkins](/source/Zeena_Parkins), [Dagmar Krause](/source/Dagmar_Krause)), [David Thomas](/source/David_Thomas_(musician)), [Peter Blegvad](/source/Peter_Blegvad), [Ut](/source/Ut_(band)), Lindsay Cooper Film Music Group, [Hail](/source/Hail_(band)) and The Hat Shoes (with [Catherine Jauniaux](/source/Catherine_Jauniaux), [Tom Cora](/source/Tom_Cora), [Charles Hayward](/source/Charles_Hayward_(musician)), 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](/source/Luigi_Archetti), Jeroen Visser and Julien Baillod). He has been living in [Zürich](/source/Z%C3%BCrich) 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* (Ad Hoc, 2008),[4] a CD of electroacoustic compositions (together with Canadian composer Chantale Laplante); *Calvary Greetings* by the Anglo-Dutch-American band Stepmother (with [Lukas Simonis](/source/Lukas_Simonis), Jeroen Visser and [Dave Kerman](/source/Dave_Kerman)) - "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*,[5] 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](/source/The_Work_(band))** - *[Slow Crimes](/source/Slow_Crimes)* (1982, LP, [Woof Records](/source/Woof_(label)), UK) - *[Live in Japan](/source/Live_in_Japan_(The_Work_album))* (1982, LP, [Recommended Records](/source/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](/source/Lindsay_Cooper), [Chris Cutler](/source/Chris_Cutler), Bill Gilonis, [Tim Hodgkinson](/source/Tim_Hodgkinson) and [Robert Wyatt](/source/Robert_Wyatt)** - *[The Last Nightingale](/source/The_Last_Nightingale)* (1984, LP, [Recommended Records](/source/Recommended_Records), UK) **[News from Babel](/source/News_from_Babel)** - *[Letters Home](/source/Letters_Home_(News_from_Babel_album))* (1985, LP/CD, Recommended Records, UK) **The Hat Shoes** - *Differently Desperate* (1992, LP/CD, [RecRec](/source/RecRec_Music), Switzerland) - *Home* (2002, CD, [RecRec](/source/RecRec_Music), Switzerland) **Bill Gilonis & Chantale Laplante** - *Zürich-Bamberg* (2008, CD, Ad Hoc Records, USA) **Stepmother, ([Lukas Simonis](/source/Lukas_Simonis), Bill Gilonis, Jeroen Visser and [Dave Kerman](/source/Dave_Kerman))** - *Calvary Greetings* (2014/2015), CD/LP, Megaphone / Knock'em Dead Records, USA) **Officer!, (Mick Hobbs, Felix Fiedorowicz, Bill Gilonis and 30 guests)** - *Paragraphs and Principles* (2021/2022), CD/LP, Klanggalerie, Austria / Jelodanti Records, France) **Compilation (The Lowest Note + [The Work](/source/The_Work_(band)) + Bill Gilonis/[Tim Hodgkinson](/source/Tim_Hodgkinson))** - *WOOF 7 inches* (2004, CD, Ad Hoc Records, USA) [6] ## References 1. ["The WORK: Rubber Cage"](https://books.google.com/books?id=7ytLAAAAYAAJ&q=Gilonis). *Option magazine, Issues 42-47*. 1992. p. 137. Retrieved 15 August 2011. 1. ["The WORK: Live in Japan"](https://archive.today/20120903194021/http://www.maelstrom.nu/ezine/review_iss43_3015.php?issue=43&sid=0f491252ee18ff8ad0712f32e3b5355a&osCsid=0f491252ee18ff8ad0712f32e3b5355a). *Maelstrom ezine, Issue 43*. 1982. Archived from [the original](http://www.maelstrom.nu/ezine/review_iss43_3015.php?issue=43&sid=0f491252ee18ff8ad0712f32e3b5355a&osCsid=0f491252ee18ff8ad0712f32e3b5355a) on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2012. 1. ["Youtube clip from Live in Japan"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMh3AEoa290,) 1. ["GILONIS/LAPLANTE: Zürich-Bamberg"](http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/adhoc_024/critiques/). *Revue & Corrigée, Issue 80*. 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2009. 1. ["Alex Julyan & Bill Gilonis"](http://www.alexjulyan.com/work/lost.htm). Alexjulyan.com. Retrieved 2014-08-24. 1. ["Discogs discography"](https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=bill+gilonis&type=all,) ## External links - [Official Website](http://www.gilonis.ch/) - [The Work's MySpace space](https://myspace.com/workthe) - [SquidCo Woof Discography](http://www.squidco.com/rer/Woof.discog.html) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Bill Gilonis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gilonis) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gilonis?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.