Chrono Cross 20th Anniversary Piano Album Announced
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Across the Worlds funds on Kickstarter within hours, featuring arrangements from Masashi Hamazu and composer Yasunori Mitsuda’s arrangement team
Wayô Records is thrilled to present Across the Worlds, a special solo piano arrangement album celebrating the 20th anniversary of Chrono Cross. Across the Worlds features arrangements from Yasunori Mitsuda’s sound team, Procyon Studio, and Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy VII Remake composer Masashi Hamauzu, performances by Benyamin Nuss (pianist for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts concerts), and artwork by Kiyoshi Arai (Final Fantasy and Xenoblade series). The project is fully licensed and will release in December 2020:
Across the Worlds on Kickstarter
“We are quite fond of the various piano arrangement albums that exist for many gaming franchises, and we’re particularly partial to ones arranged by composer and arranger Masashi Hamauzu,” comments Wayô Records producer Romain Dasnoy. “We’ve always yearned for a volume dedicated to Chrono Cross, and the 20th anniversary seemed like an opportune time. We wanted to be sure to do it right, so we conceived it as a classy piano album with arrangements by Masashi Hamauzu and arrangers close to Yasunori Mitsuda. This is exactly what Chrono Cross deserves, and we are working hard to make it an indispensable work for fans and music lovers alike.”
Across the Worlds took to Kickstarter yesterday and hit its 25,000 EUR goal in a matter of hours. Wayô Records has enjoyed past success on Kickstarter with 2019’s Little Big Adventure. Backers of Across the Worlds will receive a digital copy of the album starting at 15 EUR with other rewards including physical CDs, vinyl, piano sheet music books, and even a limited deluxe Radical Dreamers music box available at higher support tiers. The funding will be used to cover production and recording costs and produce and deliver physical rewards. Stretch goals include additional tracks, artwork, and even a professional live performance with video distributed to backers.
About Wayô Records
Dedicated to the promotion of music first and foremost, Wayô Records is a label driven by a strong sense of respect for the composers and their work. As a production company, Wayô created several original concerts with famous anime and videogame music composers such as Michiru Ôshima, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yôko Shimomura, Masashi Hamauzu, and Akira Yamaoka. Wayô’s catalog of CDs and vinyl feature original soundtracks from games such as the Ni No Kuni, Streets of Rage, Skies of Arcadia, Grandia, Legend of Legacy, and Metal Slug 3. In 2019, the label created a high-quality music box series for avid collectors.
