tanithryudo: (Music)
Back to more Zhou Shen songs this time. His newest release is 《江湖缘起》, an OST for the game 《剑侠情缘网络版叁》 (aka 《剑网3》 aka JX Online 3).

Technically, it's the main theme song for the new server the game is putting out, which seems to be a roll back of the storyline to the original launch, but now with more modern mechanics and stuff. (Kinda like if they made Guild Wars with the Pre-searing storyline and GW2 game mechanics, I guess?) Now, I've not played this game myself, but I have actually read a lot of fanfic based on the game or crossed over with the game, and I even have a pretty big collection of previous OSTs for it, so...I feel very familiar with its elements, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2cJ3c9Xwg

《江湖缘起》——《剑网3缘起》主题曲
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It's a little special this time because he's also listed as the sole producer for the song (previously, he's been listed as co-producer of a few songs before). Guess he felt confident with the role since he supposedly played the game when it was first released, haha. Also, there's an interesting reaction video by the composer of the song, where she gives some interesting behind the scenes tidbits about how an OST is made.

And while I'm here, here's another OST 《问花》 that was release just a day before the above. This is the main theme of an animated film 《白蛇2:青蛇劫起》, and it looks pretty cool. The first movie that preceded it 《白蛇:缘起》, seems to be highly rated, and is also available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Prime, etc. (And yes, ZS also sang one of the promotional songs for this movie.) Maybe I should watch it one of these days...

Then the week before that, there was yet another OST 《跳舞的月光》 released the week before. This one is the main theme of a movie about high school dance, it seems? Anyway, the melody is definitely fitting to be danced to. (ZS's fans are already lamenting (yet again) about having to split votes among the various music app boards. =P)
tanithryudo: (Zen)
So since I've exhausted looking up Zhou Shen's songs produced in the last few years, I've been branching out on bilibili (and youtube) based on reaction videos, similar artists, etc. Just recently, I came across this UK singer and songwriter, who seems to have gone native with chinese music styles. Thought I'd share a couple of works by Shaun Gibson.

"中国风 China Wind" - one of his earlier popular hits. Love the surprise suona, lol.


"传承 Pass It On" - with background BGM from factory sounds.


My favorite is actually the wuxia themed song "侠客行", which unfortunately isn't available on Youtube.

Awesome lyrics and lyrics background for this song taken from the comments section )

EDIT 10/10/21 - retroactively crossposting to LJ

For laughs

Oct. 17th, 2009 11:42 am
tanithryudo: (Imperial Cat)
Funny stuff: 大侠就是我
蝶梦(穆杨) 焦版杨宗保

Also, want the mp3 version of this song: 只如初见. So far all I can find is the shorter female sang version.

*** Ignore the rest *** )

Misc refs...
BLD prequel ep guide
tanithryudo: (Dragon Character)
Inspired by a tangent to this post.

So after all that musing about the definition of the western superhero, I got thinking on what my interpretation of "侠" is.

tl;dr )
tanithryudo: (Imperial Cat)
Didn't think I'd find this kinda stuff on youtube. Beats trying to get enough points on Chinese BBS to look at the MVs.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KP1ECiOlfp0


..& other stuff
http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tesusan
BLD vid
tanithryudo: (Yang Jian)
Apparently, Changzhou/常州 (where Zhaozhao/昭昭 hails from) and Guanjiangkou/灌江口 (where Erlang Shen/二郎神 hails from) are both located in Jiangsu/江苏 province (where I hail from :p). *fangirls* ^_^

Also, not sure if I covered all the famous mountains of wuxia fame... I think I got the most often used ones... Kunlun, Hua, Emei, Tai... Am I missing some?

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Edit: added Hengshan, Wudangshan, Jinggangshan, Xiangyang, and Kaifeng.

Edit2: Apparently I have the wrong 灌口... it's actually supposed to be next to Chengdu in Sichuan.
tanithryudo: (Imperial Cat)
From an EG pseudo-fic on the bbs:

我家小白白啊~~名字叫做白玉堂,字泽琰。外号锦毛鼠。
不过,这个名字起的就不是太好。 因为从五行上来看:
玉字属金,堂字属土。泽字属水,琰字属火。
五行中单单缺了木。

(snip)

那么改成什么好呢?白是你的姓,不能改,含有五行的字也动不得~~那么就只有改外号了,“毛鼠”两个字也有“猫鼠”的谐音在所以也不能改。那么,我看就叫你“棉毛鼠”好了!

(snip)

——切忌高楼啊。
平时的住房就要小心,遇见含有“高”的楼房建筑,比如说冲霄,凌云的,千万、绝对不要乱闯啊!


...Note that 白玉堂 died infiltrating 冲霄楼. I have to wonder if his name was chosen for exactly the above purpose. But probably not since his earliest literary incarnation as a mouse-spirit probably didn't include 冲霄楼.

http://www.xiaoyaojing.com/wind/read.php?tid=32396
tanithryudo: (Heroine)
So [insanejournal.com profile] cashew and I had a girls day/night/day out yesterday and today, our last day(s) of freedom before classes start... tomorrow. *sobs*

Anyhow, we rented three videos from Blockbusters yesterday evening - "Big Fish" and "Once Upon A Time In China" I & II. This afternoon we saw "Hero" in the theaters. So yeah, reviews are as follows:

Big Fish review )

Once Upon A Time In China review )

Hero review )
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