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Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Shimomura and Nobuo Uematsu at Press Start Symphonic Concert in Paris on 11 April 2015

"PRESS START : Symphony of Games” will be presented for the first time in Europe on 11 April 2015 in the prestigious concert hall of La Mutualité de Paris (2pm & 8pm), with on stage a full philarmonic orchestra of more than 60 musicians ! PRESS START is presenting each year in Tokyo since 2006 all the most illustrious music pieces of the Japanese video game world ranging from Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Castlevania, Tetris, or even Professeur Layton ! This without forgetting the most hardcore RPGs such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross or Kingdom Hearts...

And for this first European show this will be no less than three legendary composer from the video game universe on stage ! If Nobuo Uematsu, sponsor of Press Start since its beginning in 2006 is already well known from the European audience, this will be the first time ever that the long awaited Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears) and Yoko Shimomura (Kingdom Hearts) will attend a concert in France ! Not to forget that all those composers also have worked in Japanese animation, with Yasunori Mitsuda having among others composed the soundtrack for Black Butler: Book of Circus and Inazuma Eleven TV series, and Nobuo Uematsu having composed notably Blue Dragon and Guin Saga OSTs.

On the opposite of all other similar concerts proposed in Europe and America, PRESS START is both produced in Japan and supported by all the most famous game editors of the Japanese market. This guarantee to PRESS START's music the benefit of an orchestration and arrangements created or supervised by their original Japanese composer, and so on a live interpretation of the utmost quality never seen in Europe ! And last reference, though not the least, the concert is placed under the patronnage of "FAMITSU", the famous magazine, reference of the video game world throughout the world !

For each concert 150 VIP packs are on sale on our official shop at shop.wildfaery.com only and propose to each buyer an exclusive meet & greet with Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Shimomura and Nobuo Uematsu in the prestigous Salon Odeon of the Mutualité. Each pack includes a collector access pass, the concert programand, the official Tshirt and a bonus CD (remitted at the Meet & Greet Session).

The video trailer is availble here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRESL6QAJhE (and also attached to this email), and official visual are also attached.

Tickets can securely and smoothly be ordered and delivered worldwide from either our shop http://shop.wildfaery.com or the FNAC network (http://www.fnactickets.com/place-spectacle/manifestation/Musique-de-film-PRESS-START--SYMPHONY-OF-GAMES-MU11A.htm)


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