  We study the spectra of light mesons as well as the dissociation of a
quarkonium and monopole-anti monopole bound state in a gluon condensate
background. In order to describe the confining phase we introduce an IR cutoff
in two ways, namely the hard wall and the braneless approaches. We find that
the meson spectra strongly depend on the gluon condensate in the braneless
approach, while they do not in the hard wall model. The latter result appears
to be a more probable feature of QCD.
