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Apr 4, 2011 - 5:30 PM
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BasilFSM
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INTRADA Announces:
KIDCO
Composed and Conducted by MICHAEL SMALL
INTRADA Signature Edition ISE 1044
Intrada announces its latest Signature Edition release---the 1984 Twentieth Century Fox film Kidco---a spirited, if little-known, entry in the kid comedy genre. It might seem an odd choice for the hallmark, '70s paranoia composer Michael Small to helm scoring duties for a film of this nature, but the composer delivered music that is playful, funny, uplifting, tender, and folksy. The score is clearly multifaceted, however. Some of darkest tracks, such as the “Main Title," boasts a funky, swampy guitar lick interwoven with bursts of screaming synth and “Sentences,” a nervous, string-heavy piece that has some of the quietly ominous quality of classic Small music. It also has a more comedic side, with tracks like “The Feds,” combining Keystone Cop-style chase music with a lusty burst of mariachi, as well as an uplifting slant heard in “Colt Roping,” with its optimistic swirl of brass. Small puts it all on a display of diversity in this colorful, dynamic score.
Kidco is a heartening, all-American story---allegedly based on fact: a spunky quartet of siblings living on a California ranch give vent to their burgeoning entrepreneurial spirit by starting their own fertilizer business, making hay with the ranch horses’ natural product, undercutting the local fertilizer king, and becoming wildly successful. Trouble rears its head when said manure maven tips off the IRS, the kids are taken to court, and have to mount their own defense.
This Intrada Signature Edition is limited to 1000 units.
INTRADA Signature Editions ISE 1044
Retail Price: $19.99
Available: April
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7039/.f
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Nice samples, I like what I'm hearing. Though no money so I can't get it. Hopefully in a couple months, I'll be able to track down a copy on the secondary market.
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The samples are SO Michael Small in style, heard in so many of his scores. I like it, it's good, I like Michael Small, but it just doesn't grab me to want to snatch this up, as say if another score like Small's music from the TV-Movie CHIEFS or the feature THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE would.
I'd jump on those in a heartbeat.
But thanks to INTRADA for putting it out there.
Yes, more Michael Small is certainly better...that said, I sure wish we could have Small's other score from '84: FIRSTBORN. It's a Paramount release so I'm not sure if it's possible for Intrada or not. Perhaps it's more a possibility for FSM since they have done several Paramount titles lately.
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Apr 5, 2011 - 12:45 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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Wow. And there was me worrying this one might sell out quickly, when I went to bed early last night and only found out today in work.
Since I buy very few NEW scores these days (Danny Elfman, any David Newman/some Chris Beck/JNH/Ottman scores, the odd John Powell), if I didn't have these older scores I've never heard (of) before, my buying/listening habit would be seriously curtailed.
The recent(ish) spate of releases by Jerry Fielding, Pino Donaggio, Stu Phillips and Michael Small have helped me discover old scores like they're new ones, by composers who I really like and admire, in contrast to stuff coming out by Brian Tyler Bates and Zimmer/Jablonsky etc, who I can't get into.
I think I have everything by Small apart from the JAWS THE REVENGE CD that came and went quite quickly (I'm hoping it might get a proper release sometime in the future) and I will be ordering KIDCO tonight as part of my new-old listening habit. I haven't bothered listening to the samples. I'm just gonna treat it like a new score by him I've never heard before.
Thanks Intrada 
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I think the samples sound great. I picked one up. I haven't gotten a Michael Small cd that's let me down yet.
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