Nu Garçon

Nu Garçon is the brainchild of Tony Onuchukwu, a Nigerian-British producer residing in the vibrant landscape of South London.

“Nu Garcon is the culmination of a kind of coming-of-age story” says Tony. “I know who am a bit better, I've have shaken off some of the more paralysing delusions of youth and tried to retain the hopeful ones: the compulsion to make pop music, to play with sound, without cynicism or self-denial. I'm less prickly and insecure, I can talk about stuff, and stop pretending I know everything.”

Instead, Nu Garçon is wide-eyed in a different way, unflinching in the exploration of the sounds and themes that makes it tick. The sound routinely pivots between the nostalgia-as-hypnagogic pop production of someone like Oneohtrix Point Never, the lo-fi crackle and hiss of DIY cult character R Stevie Moore and Madlib’s honed-in beat making. Never, though, does it allow its deftly delivered melodic hooks to sink back into the haze; Nu Garçon is an experimental pop act with the emphasis on pop.

“There’s a kind of naivety to our approach - and in the songs themselves” says Tony. “A lack of polish or gloss, a simplicity, a refusal of ‘cool-ness’. But it’s mixed in with a sort of maturity. I've been round the block as a musician. I'm older than I was… and I think this has an impact on the music.”