The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild "Bard in the Rain" 3:19

She originally released this on YouTube for her birthday, but it's us VGM fans getting the present, as RebeccaETripp tag-teams with Gamer of the Winds to breathe more life into Breath of the Wild! Tripp's imagery for this intimate piece involved setting some metaphorical birds loose:

"It's my birthday! :D Here's another song with Greg and I! Continuing the tradition of releasing projects that bring me joy on my birthday, here is my arrangement of "Kass's Theme" from Breath of the Wild! The flute parts were performed by the amazing Gamer of the Winds! You can hear more of his own work here. In this arrangement, I tried to create the sense of colourful joy I felt every time I encountered Kass unexpectedly in the wilds! His theme is one of my favourite tracks from BotW. It's been covered a lot, so I wanted to try to do something different. I hope this remix sounds the way it feels when birds of many species are singing all at once in a thunderstorm, hopefully followed by a rainbow! This was a very fun piece!"

The fun carried over to the judges panel, with Rebecca running the table with unanimous YES votes and earning nothing but unequivocal praise, firstly from prophetik music:

"beautiful flute recording as expected. the use of aerophone-style instruments like a bass flute for the backing elements is a really clever way to adapt the accordion's concept to this. there's some light percs to fill in a bit. overall the counterpoint going on is well-thought out and nicely done, and the extra sfx at 1:40 or so make for some nice texture. the glock cadenza was a little unexpected. i also liked the integration of the original LoZ theme.

this is a lot more creative and far-reaching than usual for you! i really enjoyed the stretch. excellent work."

Hemophiliac echoed the kudos for both Rebecca and Gamer of the Winds, praising their organic feel as well as their more transformative approach:

"The slightly slower tempo is giving me more sultry vibes than whimsy that the original has. GotW shines as always. Getting the blown air in there, sounds lovely in a rainstorm of winds.

I have to also echo what prophetik said about bringing in the original Legend of Zelda theme, I was not expecting it but it was a good break from the rest of Kass's Theme and added melodic variation when it was needed.

Great interpretation and lovely work pushing the source even further then what I come to expect from Rebecca. Walked that balancing act very well."

The thunderstorm really picked up at 1:34 to put the bard in the rain, get your umbrellas out! Lovely soloing at 1:49 over the top of the theme's base progression. Wonderful lead tradeoffs and eventual interplay to hit home the "birds singing in a storm" vibe Tripp aimed to establish. The entire way through, this shines with strong instrumentation, lots of subtle expansionist writing, as well as melodic ornamentation for quite a lovely personalization of "Kass's Theme". Greg's performances crushed it, and Rebecca crafted what sounds like a genuine treasure!