​During his paisley sofa years, Cole released the album Scarves & Knives...

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"moonlit symphonic sweep"

- No Depression

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"darkly beautiful debut... fresh and utterly captivating"

- Performing Songwriter Magazine

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"On the initial note emanating from this album, Cole Guerra recalls the catalog of singer/songwriters like Tom Waits and Randy Newman by offering a lovely, tender, piano-fueled track entitled Away Awhile... [and later] he nails the roots rock gem, Hocus Pocus... The closer is a lovely, tearjerker sort of tune with Guerra alone at the piano for Downtown, which makes you yearn for dreary, rainy Sunday afternoons"

-AllMusic Guide

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"complex melodies that float rather than progress from A to B to C. The slow-motion fever dreams inside Guerra's tunes ensnare with a unique alien beauty"

- Vintage Guitar Magazine

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After touring in support of Scarves & Knives,  Cole  disappeared from the music landscape. He became a clinical psychologist and settled into his adopted hometown of Durham, North Carolina. When Cole re-emerged with new material, he did so as I AM CASTING, putting out an album called Carnival Barkers...

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"This is an album in the traditional sense, a song cycle united against a common enemy... replete with complex melodic and harmonic turns as well as truth-seeking lyrics that can provide hope in moments of hopelessness... At times reminiscent of Paul Simon's most woke moments, the early solo work of Peter Gabriel or Los Lobos' ode to the silently suffering, By the Light of the Moon, Carnival Barkers is an exquisite portrait of the times that try humankind's collective soul."

- PopMatters

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2025 brings new music - Singles are being released throughout the year, with an LP due out in January 2026