Hi Everyone,

The new CD feature at stick.com is Dale Ladouceur and The Broke Ensembles Do Ya Think, a 20-track variety show of diverse song styles from the Canadian singer/Stickist/songwriter/band leader. Review and sample mp3s:

http://www.stick.com/features/cd/



Do Ya Think is now available from Stick Enterprises....

just saw this video again yesterday from the CD. Great job, Dale!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2lhiFpdr8[/youtube]

I always enjoy Dale's use of evocative language (the personal story lines), her use of phonemes (the poetry of vocal sounds sans meaning) including all those delicious diphthongs. There's power and tenderness in her voice alone. (Her "H"s blow me away.)

Combine that with nimble fingers on Stick strings, creating rich song arrangements from the warm bass rhythms on up through adventurous chord progressions and melodic counter-themes. She's a natural entertainer and it's all there in solo form.

Now add a quartet of drums, guitar and woodwinds to her Stick arrangements and you have "The Broke Ensemble", capable of huge shifts in mood, rhythm, texture, and drawing from worldwide cultural sources.

It becomes very big at this point, very broad in scope, but it's all brought together by Dale's personality on this just released CD, "Do Ya Think". All her inner layers are laid bare. "Let's get real" is how I'd describe her musical soul, but then there's also her romanticism and idealism.

What's real and what's not? It all depends on Dale, but I know that her solid Stick backup is real.

Man, where have i been? musical heroes F.Z., interview w Gil Scott Heron, activist, writer, theater,...bitchin arrangements...sign me up!