Thomas Champagne

Thomas Champagne has been crisscrossing Belgium with his trio for 12 years. The trio has played in Nicolas Bedos’ play, “Promenade de santé” (with Tania Garbarsky and Charlie Dupont) and released a first album for the Igloo label (Charon’s Boat, 2008).
Thomas also played and recorded with hard-bop quintet The Sidewinders (Igloo Records, November 2012), Brazilian pop/rock UTZ (led by the singer and guitarist Renato Baccarat), Al Manara (fifteen Belgo-Palestinian musicians that play the music of Ramzi Aburedwan, arranged by Eloi Baudimont), Kind of Blue Tribute, ...

In January 2014, Random House is born! A quartet with Guillaume Vierset, Ruben Lamon and Alain Deval. New sound and a completely different esthetic. They released their first album “Sweet Day” in October 2017.

In 2016, Thomas Champagne and Nicholas Yates created a Kids Project: GribouJazz (a jazz quartet with animated illustrations). Still in 2016, UTZ released his second album and won the Sabam Award in World Music. Thomas Champagne is touring with the Mainil / Champagne Quintet and is invited by Ramzi Aburedwan to play on a creation for the opening of the Festival des musiques sacrées (Fes – Marocco – May 2017).

Spring 2019 is the beginning of a new adventure for Random House, featuring Adam O’Farrill, amazing trumpet player from New York. Album release the 18/06/2021.