Music

Four solo releases, 2013 to 2025 — Latin American repertoire, jazz standards, Coste preludes, and a Christmas suite for guitar duo, solo, and quartet — plus four earlier records as a bassist and guitarist in original bands.

Solo

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Angel EP2013

Five Latin American pieces for solo guitar — Pujol, Lauro, Brouwer, Piazzolla, Barrios — recorded on a Michael Gee guitar in the weeks after my daughter was born.

  • Preludio RockeroMáximo Diego Pujol0:50
  • El NegritoAntonio Lauro0:50
  • Paisaje Cubano con TristezaLeo Brouwer0:50
  • La Muerte del ÁngelAstor Piazzolla0:50
  • Villancico de NavidadAgustín Barrios Mangoré0:50
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Paris EP2016

Five jazz standards arranged for nylon string guitar in the spirit of Joe Pass — Gershwin to Kosma — each one chosen for melody, memory, and a lifelong love of jazz.

"Rhayn's technique is faultless but it's the feel and emotion that he gets from each piece that's so magical. And it's that which makes 'Paris' such a joy to listen to."

— Welsh Connections Magazine
  • SummertimeGeorge Gershwin1:00
  • Over the RainbowHarold Arlen1:00
  • Georgia on My MindHoagy Carmichael1:00
  • The Dead LeavesJoseph Kosma (Les Feuilles Mortes)1:00
  • Fly Me to the MoonBart Howard1:00
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Coste Op.49 Preludes2016

The first guitar recording of these six short preludes — Romantic miniatures with Classical roots from Sor's student and friend, full of colourful harmony and ideas.

  • Prelude 1Napoléon Coste0:20
  • Prelude 2Napoléon Coste0:20
  • Prelude 3Napoléon Coste0:20
  • Prelude 4Napoléon Coste0:20
  • Prelude 5Napoléon Coste0:20
  • Prelude 6Napoléon Coste0:20
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A Guitarist's Christmas2025

Four Christmas arrangements for guitar duo, solo, and quartet, sequenced as one suite and closing on a chorale built from Bach's BWV 998 fugue and Luther's carol.

  • Coventry Carol (Guitar Duo)Traditional, arr. Rhayn Jooste0:50
  • Silent Night (Guitar Solo)Franz Gruber, arr. Rhayn Jooste0:50
  • Shchedryk "Carol of the Bells" (Guitar Quartet)Mykola Leontovych, arr. Rhayn Jooste0:50
  • Chorale No.46 & Fugue (Guitar Quartet)J.S. Bach, arr. Rhayn Jooste0:50
  • Shchedryk — Live Performance 2024 (Guitar Solo, Bonus Track)Mykola Leontovych, arr. Rhayn Jooste0:50

Contributor

Before turning fully to the classical repertoire, I built extensive live experience: bass in the Celtic goth-rock band Bluehorses, and guitar in original rock outfit Sankara.

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Founder and song writer

Sankara — Guided by Degrees

2012

Sankara — Enigma cover art

Founder and song writer

Sankara — Enigma

2011

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Contributor

Bluehorses — Thirteen Fires

2007

 

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