Toine Thys
- Instruments : Soprano saxophone, Tenor saxophone, Bass clarinet
- Date of birth : 22/09/1972 - Bruxelles
Toine Thys leads the TOINE THYS TRIO with Arno Krijger (NL) on Hammond organ and drummer Karl Jannuska (CAN). He recorded they third album New York « THE OPTIMIST » for Igloo records in 2019, featuring international stars SAM YAHEL on Hammond, HERVE SAMB on guitar
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He leads the award-winner ORLANDO, a project with drummer Teun Verbruggen and french musicien Florent Nisse (bass) and Maxime Sanchez (piano). The first album was awarded by
the most prestigious Jazz award in Belgium: the Octave de la musique in 2021, (Jazzmag), and new record ‘Betterlands’ is internationally acclaimed.
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2022 as featured his all star band and cross-over group OVERSEAS, around his collaboration wih with egyptian oud player Ihab Radwan, Annemie Osborne (cello), Zé Luis Nascimento (percussions) and Harmen Fraanje (piano). They first album "Tamam Morning" got internationally acclaimed. At the crossroads of Arabic music and hijazz modes, jazz and tonal improvisation, classical music and rhythms of brazilian music, they play an evolving repertoire,
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His electronic experiment take places in GURU.FARM (known before as DERvISH) is a live band based in Belgium. With an all star team, with musicians Pat Dorcean (drums), Dries Laheye (bass) and David Thomaere (keys), they play a homegrown glossy- electroJazz, groovy, spacy and twisted. Transformed by electronics, the saxophone becomes synth and joins the rhythm section. Beat music !
Toine Thys plays a solo project called LoFi-Sufi where he blends tenor saxophone sounds and electonics. He performs in this set up with danse and tight rope dancers.
As a sideman, he is playing with formations Antoine Pierre’s URBEX, Laïla Amezian Sheikhs Shikhats, Afrikan Protokol (Burkina/Belgique), Bounce Trio (FR),), Ben Monder (USA), Andrew D’Angelo, african griot Zouratié Kone Ensemble (Burkina Faso), Barm Weijtezrs CRAZY MEN,
Together with trumpetist Laurent Blondiau, and supported by the French Speaking Governement of belgium, he founded in 2013 a wind instrument school in Burkina Faso : « LES VENTISTES DU FASO » ,and became a specialist in teaching brass instruments in African contexts (DRC, Benin, Kenya, Angola, Madagascar,..). This concept is being extended to other african countries, like DRC (Congo Kinshasa, Rwanda).
He is very involved with musicians rights and co-founded the musician Federation FACIR.
