Rush Garcia is an American Indie Musician, formerly under the ToaRush1325 alias. I am a firm believer of uniqueness in composition, and Rush Garcia’s composition philosophy is one that as a musician, I can entirely admire and respect.
For a trained musician, it is simple to orchestrate a track. With some bit of resources and enough training beforehand, such a thing is as easy as composing any other track. For one to initiate their own take on a track is a whole ‘nother story by itself - and a feat that one shouldn’t scoff at easily. And such a quality is why I’ve sincerely found Rush Garcia’s covers to be very unique, while also pleasantly showing all the little bits about himself.
Let’s take example, the first few tracks I’ve ever listened from him accidentally - His Ujico Orchestrations. When I listen to these, I often compare them to both the original track, and the ones from other musicians such as Seycara to see what’s so different about them. This is one thing that gets me to wake up in the morning, and it is something that I genuinely find fun to do, even if I’m not going to end up writing an entire essay explaining what is their difference later on in detail anyways. His take on Hot Milk is something that can instantly be recognized as awfully unique, as unlike most of the covers I’ve listened to, it didn’t particularly lean on the signature drop that Hot Milk is known for. Rather, Rush Garcia re-imagined it as a calming piano piece, followed by a flurry of sounds and instruments that eventually carried the song to an entirely different atmosphere, which is truly a pleasant experience to sit through when I heard it.
As much as I’d like to praise his orchestrations, I think the real cream resides in Rush Garcia’s Sketches and original composition, and the little conversations and stories that follow within their descriptions. It really does bring a lot more personality into all his tracks, and makes it all the more enjoyable~
I can spend days talking about musicians such as Rush Garcia, but that wouldn’t be something everyone wants to listen or read to, so here’s the end of my take before we head into a more detailed talk.
This will be a short one, even by my standards.
Once again another orchestration take, if you’ve read the first post about orchestral music, you would know I wouldn’t throw any names here if they weren’t interesting, while Blake’s covers have a strong sense of personality behind it. Rush Garcia’s orchestration shows his confidence, confidence in knowing what he is working with and what his vision for his end product is.
His knowledge in knowing what he is working with is what makes me see that confidence in his work, it wasn’t that apparent when I started listening to his stuff, but after “The Slayer's army”, “I AM”, and “Launch”. I’m convinced with the notion that he has in depth knowledge on what he is working on, both games cover “slayer army” (DOOM eternal), and “Launch” (Halo), you simply can’t encapsulate the feel of both games without actually playing through the whole game.
That aside, on to the main point of this segment, Sketch 19. This is a beautiful piece of music, all of his entries in his Sketch collection are, but 19 stands amongst all of them. The intro to it, the sudden pauses scattered across the whole song, the chatter that fills some of that silence. The composition is on point for this music, and to make things even better, the story behind the song is typed out in the description of that video.
Go check his stuff out, and even though this might be a bit late when this comes out. I wish you a merry christmas, and a happy new year ( if this comes out after christmas which is going to be the case, most likely).
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