TG Gondard
Avontuur [CS; Not Not Fun]

As a teenaged youth, I had the privilege of visiting Belgium and got a taste of European culture. However, much of that resulted in sitting in the same coffee shop in Ghent with my grandparents and a pair of matrons, locally referred to as ‘The Witches’ — they were sweet to me, but in a manner that wasn’t unlike the witch in Hansel and Gretel. My interactions with what really lay beneath the canals and cobbled streets was never to be, the fantasy of a 15 year old never to be realized, wrapped up in snickering about ‘The Witches’ and the darkest, thickest coffee I’ve ever consumed. Perhaps it’s why TG Gondard’s skittish Avontuur speaks to me: it draws me to a retro-club culture I was never privy to, one that I feverishly dreamed as I was so close and yet so far away from. Avontuur is the sound of a forgotten European union, an amalgamation of nationalities, cultures, and traditions boiled into neatly spastic outbursts of rhythmic synth and canned beats. It’s the coffee shops after dark, when ‘The Witches’ remove the hunchbacks and hairy moles for cauldrons boiling with the eye of newt and the powder of the coco leaf.

Links: Not Not Fun

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