KAREN GIBSON ROC AND FLUID

The above video is a sample from the DVD "TRAVELING WITH LIGHT"-(plus a few other videos for your viewing) -Karen Gibson Roc & Fluid follow up their successful debut album with the aptly titled "Traveling With Light", a concert journey recorded in Brooklyn before a live audience. Karen offers uplifting lyrics and Fluid lays down positive grooves that are sure to please wordsmiths and music lovers alike. "Traveling With Light" features a 60 minute DVD and a FREE bonus Nine track CD available only with the DVD purchase. Directed by Award winning film maker Phil Roc and funded by The Canadian Council For The ArtsKaren Gibson Roc is an astonishment. This Brooklyn-based (by way of Jamaica and Canada) poet and musician is fierce and fearless. A musical chameleon (she calls herself a “poetist” or poetic vocalist), she combines elements of rap, downtown-diva poetry slamming, and an urgent backing band called Fluid that lays down beats for her that range from jazzy to soulful to the rock edge that the hip-hop pioneers used to such great advantage. Karen Gibson Roc is so committed to what she is doing, she even dreams in rhyme! She has been compared to Gil Scott-Heron, a declaiming pioneer of the 1960s (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” “Johannesburg”) and I can see a similarity, although she is not political, as Scott-Heron was. She is a sloganeer as he was, but in a more personal mode. “I refuse to die unfinished!” she trumpets out to the universe in one song. I hope we can soon see more unfinished business from her. I see her more as a poet/musician in the mode of the greatest of all New York City divas, Patti Smith, following her creative itchiness wherever it may lead her. review by Mark Fogerty! To read more - check out blogBUY MUSIC FROM I-TUNES