i've been trying to figure out a way that the folks back home can check out the actual music of theotherjayfather. it's a bit involved, but if you're willing to give it a try, you can hear the king of Chinese hip-hop without even having to cross the Pacific. first, click here, which will (slowly) open the website in a new window, then pull up this screen again to find out what to do while you're waiting.
the link takes you to a Chinese page that offers streaming Jay music, but has been translated by Google software. it's worth the visit just to check out some of the translations. i defy anyone to make real sense out of it. most of the site remains in Chinese however, and unless you want a page full of little error boxes, you should tell your computer that it is okay to download the simplified Chinese text display support. this will let you see the Chinese characters on the site. the download only takes a couple of minutes, and is not very big.
you should scroll almost to the bottom of the page and find the entry in the right column that says "Week outstanding roentgen (Zhou Jie Lun)", then click that link. this takes you to the Jay page; choose the third album down, which is named "Ye Hui Mei", and click the link. this is the album whose cover i posted at the beginning of the blog, under thereason; explore the other albums at will. if you scroll about halfway down the current page you'll find translated (loosely) song titles, with three Chinese-character buttons underneath. pressing the leftmost button will select all songs, while pressing the middle button will deselect all of them. the right button will play the songs you have selected.
i suggest the following as a place to start: the fourth song has some pretty good stereo acoustics, and sounds quite good on headphones. song five, "The East Wind Broken", has a couple of good arhu sections; the arhu is the traditional two-stringed instrument of China, played with a bow, and it will sound familiar to anyone who has seen such movies as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero", or "House of Flying Daggers". arhu actually means "two tigers"; each string i suppose is a tiger. the last song on the album, which is actually "Double Blade", is pretty good, and has the best music video. it stars Jay as Double Blade and he basically kicks everyone's butt in mad kung-fu style. Song number one is actually the title track, and would be better translated "In the Name of the Father". it's probably the best song, and is part of thereason for the title of this site. enjoy.
the link takes you to a Chinese page that offers streaming Jay music, but has been translated by Google software. it's worth the visit just to check out some of the translations. i defy anyone to make real sense out of it. most of the site remains in Chinese however, and unless you want a page full of little error boxes, you should tell your computer that it is okay to download the simplified Chinese text display support. this will let you see the Chinese characters on the site. the download only takes a couple of minutes, and is not very big.
you should scroll almost to the bottom of the page and find the entry in the right column that says "Week outstanding roentgen (Zhou Jie Lun)", then click that link. this takes you to the Jay page; choose the third album down, which is named "Ye Hui Mei", and click the link. this is the album whose cover i posted at the beginning of the blog, under thereason; explore the other albums at will. if you scroll about halfway down the current page you'll find translated (loosely) song titles, with three Chinese-character buttons underneath. pressing the leftmost button will select all songs, while pressing the middle button will deselect all of them. the right button will play the songs you have selected.
i suggest the following as a place to start: the fourth song has some pretty good stereo acoustics, and sounds quite good on headphones. song five, "The East Wind Broken", has a couple of good arhu sections; the arhu is the traditional two-stringed instrument of China, played with a bow, and it will sound familiar to anyone who has seen such movies as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero", or "House of Flying Daggers". arhu actually means "two tigers"; each string i suppose is a tiger. the last song on the album, which is actually "Double Blade", is pretty good, and has the best music video. it stars Jay as Double Blade and he basically kicks everyone's butt in mad kung-fu style. Song number one is actually the title track, and would be better translated "In the Name of the Father". it's probably the best song, and is part of thereason for the title of this site. enjoy.
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