A Troll in Central Park and Borderline

2 new Intrada releases

Intrada has released 2 new scores. Robert Folk's A Troll in Central Park and Gil Mell's Borderline, both are world premiere releases.

For the 1994 animated feature A Troll in Central Park, Don Bluth and Gary Goldman sought a colorful, imaginative score and engaged composer Robert Folk, who in turn delivered a rollercoaster ride for large orchestra and both chorus and boys' choir. Folk's primary emphasis is on action and dazzling pace, while bringing a considerable degree of cohesion to his score. Folk was asked to call upon his classical chops for the score. Working from complete digital two-track stereo scoring session mixes, including all of the choral overdubs, Intrada presents this powerhouse score in it's entirety, including one song.

Composer Gil Mellé wrote highly experimental music for his film projects, melding orchestral writing with jazz, blending electronics with percussion, and utilizing both pleasant and dissonant harmonies. Yet, even with his history of experimentation, Mellé found the 1980 feature Borderline to be an unusual challenge. He composed over an hour of music but considerably less than that was used in the finished picture. And in an unusual turn of events much of his score was actually recorded twice. His initial approach was brazen, with an array of unusual ideas that were symphonic as well as jazz-based. It is rich with intense harmonies, full of percussion activity, and brimming with significant electronic keyboard effects and featuring a plethora of brass. As it turned out, the producers weren’t fully satisfied with this austere approach and Mellé went back to rescore several sequences, bringing in new and more accessible thematic ideas as well as incorporating a slightly more traditional harmonic language performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The final film draws from sizeable portions of both scoring approaches, although many cues are heavily truncated in the film and several appear in places different from where they were intended to go.

Intrada's premiere release of Borderline features all the music from the stereo 1/4' masters stored by Denise Mellé.

Track list A Troll in Central Park

01. Main Title And Magic Thumb 5:40
02. Meteor Ride 2:52
03. The N.Y.C. Experience 2:42
04. Nuts And Butterflies 8:17
05. That First Kiss 3:47
06. Gus Meets Stanley 1:35
07. Waltzing 2:29
08. The Old Soft Petal 0:01:53
09. Ride The Sail Boat 5:40
10. Bed Of Flowers 7:04
11. Gnorga In The Park 3:41
12. Wake Up! 2:40
13. The Final Battle 7:05
14. Home And Family 2:58
15. End Credits 5:32

Track list Borderline

01. The First Two Thoughts 2:29
02. Borderline Titles 1:40
03. Seismic Sensor 6:19
04. Tracking 4:24
05. This Is The Place 4:27
06. News To Deliver 1:46
07. Tijuana Bar 2:14
08. Tijuana Trouble 3:17
09. Fight For Survival 7:07
10. The Big Haul Begins 4:42
11. The Watchdog 1:31
12. Prepare To Siege 3:19
13. Busting Karl 5:29
14. Find The Illegals 3:15
15. Spotting Hotchkiss 0:18
16. So Many 1:04
17. Final Chase 2:13
18. Matching Shoes 0:38
19. Borderline Credits 5:45