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Miners Of Banal: Miners Of Banal, The (ReR/SLAG AX99)

Reissue of this long lost record joining Bill Golonis (The Work) with members of Ne Zhedali and Bing Selfish himself in a set of unusual and oddly literate songs.
 

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Personnel:



Bill Gilonis

Trixa Arnold

Rob Murphy

Ilya Kamarov


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UPC: 752725010122

Label: ReR/SLAG AX99
Publisher: ReR/SLAG AX99
Catalog ID: AX99
Squidco Product Code: 9647

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2008
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: Jewel Tray

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Some years back Bill Gilonis (The Work, The Lowest Notes, Hail etc.) teamed up with B.O.A. administrator, Trixa Arnold, to write and record songs which would mostly praise the lords of Aqua-Vita (alcohol). Filling out their band of Smirnoff-swilling miscreants was Ilya Komarov (bassist for the Estonian band, Ne Zhedali) and none other than armchair anarchist, crown prince of avant-garde Pop, Rob Murphy, AKA "Bing Selfish".

Whilst the group hoped that their songs would become instant "hits" with those who quaff down lots of booze (ie: the whole of Rock music's target market, ages 17 thru 35), they hadn't accounted for a change in public attitude towards basic health and hygene issues, which caused record company executive, Chris Cutler, some alarm. Always monitoring the merits of demographics and pie-chart predictions, Cutler feared the album would not meet sales requirements. Straightening his tie as he exited his Rolls, and in-between puffs on a 13-inch Romeo and Juliet, the legendary money-maker made the band aware, in no uncertain terms, that their music was "as unkempt and as messy as yourselves".

But, although he feared the master tapes of Miners Of Banal were lacking in two areas (form and content), he nonetheless agreed to issue the disk on a limited basis to "test the murky waters". Hence the disk's original issue fell off of the map rather quickly. As it's nowadays hip and cool again to play messy, unkempt music in the avant-rock vein of L. Voag, The Work, Unrest Work & Play and Orchestra Murphy, we've decided that the world is probably now finally dirty enough for The Miners of Banal, and we're happy to re-distribute this (almost) legendary album."-Recommended Records


Artist Biographies

"Bill Gilonis (born 1958) 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 (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 recordings have been Zürich-Bamberg (Ad Hoc, 2008), a CD of electroacoustic compositions (together with Canadian composer Chantale Laplante), and Calvary Greetings by the Anglo-Dutch-American band Stepmother (with Lukas Simonis, Jeroen Visser and Dave Kerman) - a reunion of an 80s band that never existed (but should have): twangy guitars, nifty keyboards, zany drumming, vocal histrionics à la The Rutles (well, sort of), lop-sided rhythms, regurgitated spam lyrics.

In 2009, together with Alex Julyan, he published a book "Lost in Translation", on Lost & Found Publishing."

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/180277-Bill-Gilonis)
3/27/2024

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Track Listing:



1. protest song

2. getting our hands dirty

3. right bed, right room, wrong universe

4. politics

5. another great week in showbusiness

6. nits

7. life on us

8. lingo

9. before i came

10. kindergarten

11. da da da da da

12. hotelszene

13. hard shoulder to cry on

14. still beautiful backwards

15. you are having fun

16. stirred not shaken

17. the past

18. short air

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