Carnival Cocoon is a poetry collection and album by singer-songwriter-pianist Scottie Miller. Inspired by the beat stylings of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, and drifting beautifully through classics like Yeats and Eliot. The book pages are filled with deeply emotive, full-color illustrations that convey the vulnerable content. The collection empathizes with addiction, recovery, mental illness, inequality, homelessness, wrongful imprisonment and the divisiveness of the world.
A poetry collection and musical masterpiece in both book and audio format, this ambitious body of work triumphs with select poems that are set to music, and featured on the album version of Carnival Cocoon. The music (feat. Cierra Alise Hill & Bex Gaunt), often completely improvised, charges ahead bravely with 23 poems from the collection. Both spoken and sung word take you where the beat poets gather, as if you're listening in on a discussion of the human condition over a coffee, or a whiskey with Tom Waits or Willie Nelson; where Kerouac might stand next to Steve Allen on piano, while the youthful energy of Peanuts' Vince Guaraldi blends with a taste of Beethoven.
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