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We’re pleased to announce that October’s recipient of the Creatives Grant is Tony Onuchukwu. Tony is a sound artist, a composer and audio engineer based in South London. He makes music under the name Nu Garçon. The tracks he sent over were so genuinely good – the kind of music I’d listen to anyway. I was really happy to find his work! It’s slinky, rhythmic, this smooth bodily music that j sparkles and pops. I’m really excited to have it on the homepage, really excited to present it to you because I’m sincerely so jazzed about it, have put it on my spotify playlists n all ha! We hope you enjoy Tony’s work as much as we do!
BIO:
Tony Onuchukwu is a composer, sound designer, audio engineer and former practising medical doctor based in Lewisham, South London. He makes Podcasts, Audio Documentaries and Soundscapes for digital formats and small spaces.
Born in Lagos, Tony’s audio work explores Afro-Caribbean visions, identities and memories interspersed with neo-colonial confrontations. Tony’s work centres on building cultures and creating discussions around race and innovation. In 2022 Tony received an honourable mention at the 2022 Sound Walk Awards with his soundscape ‘Birling Gap’ - an intimate meditation on walking, eternal transformation, and the interconnection between memory and place. Tony’s sound design won Gold for ‘Best History Podcast’ at the British Podcast Awards 2023 for his work on the ‘Sounds of Black Britain’ (Unedited/The Black Curriculum).
Alongside his audio work, Tony is also a recording artist. He explores the multi faceted category of pop music, and sub categories from hip hop to ambient, to jazz with his burgeoning pop project Nu Garçon.
“I’m interested in song structure, song-writing, song texture, production techniques and their manifestation in genres such as ‘bedroom pop’, ‘outsider’, jazz and electronic music.” Tony’s work has a naive quality. It’s raw, rhythmic, slinking, intimate, twinkling, and can be brooding as well as uplifting. “With my work, I’m trying to make people feel empowered and fulfilled like they’ve stumbled in and interrupted a deeply personal conversation and come out of it encouraged.” Nu Garçon is all about the timing being right. It’s a relatively new project but it arrives sounding already full realised. It’s a story of a personal collaboration years in the making, a dovetailing of my desire to change my direction in life, and the timing to allow me to do just that.
LINKS:
Listen to Only One You, Nu Garçon’s EP on Spotify
Listen to Objeks & Tings & Sounds of Black Britain on Apple Podcasts
