Bill Gilonis

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Bill Gilonis (born 1958) is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the English experimental rock group The Work in 1980 with Tim Hodgkinson. The group was active intermittently until 1993, recording 4 albums and touring in 17 countries including 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"; and a collaboration with Anja Burse on Wild Thing, an audio-visual installation piece. He has been living in Zürich since 1993 where he has mixed and/or produced CDs by local 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.