Music Video: Popularity arises for Anson Hu's Chinese-styled song "Moonlight" after Qin's Moon Season 4 airs ~ Tiger Hu (Anson Hu) International ::

October 9th, 2012 - < 月光 | yuè guāng (Moonlight) > is wuxia genra, Chinese-traditional style fused R&B song composed and sang by Anson Hu especially for China's 3D animated series in wuxia genra [ 秦時明月 Qin's Moon ] as a theme song in early 2007. Recently, popularity for the song arose again due to airing of a new season for Qin's Moon: Season 4. As of today, the song jumped up the charts. It now has a place within TOP500 of all songs within Baidu Music, and it continues to climb!

For this popular 3D animated series in China, Anson also directed and produced most of the soundtrack for the series. In 2008, 2010, and 2011, < Moonlight > was nominated/won awards for the best original animated series theme song. Credit: Qinsmoon.com

Why was Anson chosen as musical producer for the series?

Originally, the director wanted to use Anson's popular Chinese-styled song < 紅顏 | hóng yán | Beautiful Women > for this 3D animated series, and he even did a video demo with the song in it, but Anson offered to compose a song that will surpass his previous Chinese-styled compositions. After listening to Anson's demo version of < Moonlight >, the director was impressed with Anson's ability and invited him to compose music for the entire series.

--- From the video "Why did we invite Anson Hu to become our music director?"

How did Anson come with "Moonlight?"

At first, Anson didn't know how to go about producing a theme song for China's first 3D animated series. He was challenged and stumped after the director give him a lot of unexpected pressure. The music samples for the soundtrack were all very elegant, grande, and it utilized many Chinese classic instruments--exactly like what a big film would use. It all seemed really challenging to him at that point in time since he wanted to match the series expectation: a classical Chinese story told with new animation technology.

Anson's inspiration for the song finally came about when he learned about the story line, watched some short clips of the series, and drew in his own ideas about the mighty grand Qin Dynasty. Inspiration for the theme song name < Moonlight > came about when he thought about Qin Dynasty: the moonlight represents unlimited ideas and gives the audience room for imagination. As a result, the style of the song is a fuse of classical Chinese grande-elegance with modern R&B beats.

--- From the video "Anson's interview with Qin's Moon"

Not many people are aware of this song by Anson because it was included in in his best collection albums only: < 男人歌 (全勝鉑金版) The Men's Songs Platinum Edition > and < 音樂斌潮 Music Of Anson Hu >. It hasn't received the attention it should get, so I hope to introduce this song to you! Personally, it is one of my favourite songs composed by him. Anson really pushes himself and uses SO MANY Chinese traditional instruments presented with a slow-paced R&B beat. When I first saw the introduction, I was wondering if it was even possible. After I heard the composition and arrangement of the song, I was completely blown away. :O That's why I dedicated this entire post to one song!

For lyrics (Chinese, Pinyin, English), see 月光 | yuè guāng | Moonlight.