View basket “Land of Light” has been added to your basket. Silver Horizon Sam Carter SKU: CAP014LP Barcode: 0726436078948 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Captain Records Released Date: 16th August 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Over his fifteen-year career, Midlands-born guitarist and songwriter Sam Carter has earned a reputation for vivid, heartfelt songwriting and captivating live performances. He is a highly regarded instrumentalist, renowned by many as “the finest English-style fingerpicking guitarist of his generation” (Jon Boden). Sam has appeared on national TV, including Later… with Jools Holland, won a BBC Folk Award, and toured the world, sharing stages with folk’s leading lights, including Richard Thompson, Eliza Carthy, Martin Simpson, and Sam Sweeney. Carter released his last studio album, the acclaimed Home Waters (2020), during the pandemic. After touring extensively once the world opened up, he felt called away from the chamber folk of Home Waters. “My writing and listening shifted, probably due to the isolation”, explains Sam. “Storytelling gave way to something more impressionistic and abstract. I found hope and solace in escapism.” During the summer of 2022, he allowed his writing to be infused with his love for the ethereal textures of slowcore and dream pop bands such as Low and Cocteau Twins, and Silver Horizon began to take shape. With renowned producer Andy Bell at the helm, Carter began recording Silver Horizon in January 2024 at the remote Red Kite Studios in Wales. Armed with his 1966 Gibson ES125 electric and a collection of effects pedals, Sam cut the core tracks in three days with bassist Ben Nicholls (Seth Lakeman, Nadiene Shah) and drummer Evan Jenkins (Robben Ford, Matt Scholfield) before guitarist Stuart McCallum (The Breath) wove his epic reverb-drenched soundscapes around many of Silver Horizon’s songs. Rowan Rheingans (Lady Maisery, The Rheingans Sisters) added backing vocals, bringing a soulful depth to tracks including ‘Through The Night’, while Ian Stephenson (Kan, Baltic Crossing) contributed measured harmonium, adding texture to tracks such as ‘Boxes and Bags’. The opener and title track ‘Silver Horizon’ ushers in the album’s central theme. “It’s a kind of prayer from the perspective of a person at a turning point. They’re asking the future–symbolised by the horizon–for the peace and reassurance they know it can’t give by its very nature, but they’re asking all the same. It’s not a concept album strictly, but in each song, the narrator is either just about to or has undergone a major change.” In some songs, this theme plays out in a sense of foreboding, as in the ominous ‘If You Set Me Free’, where Carter’s increasingly tense minor key guitar work sets the scene for a depiction of Stockholm Syndrome. Elsewhere, in ‘We’re Still Here’, we find ourselves on the other side of an ordeal and share the narrator’s relief when Carter and Rheingans duet on the repeated line “It was touch and go for a minute there” over a John Martyn-flavoured guitar groove. Beginning with Carter’s inimitable fingerstyle guitar work before expanding into an epic dream-like soundscape, album closer Sights Beyond the Sky is a space-themed ode to the transformative power of a relationship. “I’m still dealing with themes of love, loss, and change that have been a part of my earlier work, but at the moment, sketching events in an impressionistic way instead of documenting them in detail gives the songs more room to breathe.” This seamless blend of the otherworldy with the personal makes Silver Horizon the most remarkable album of Carter’s career and looks set to cement his reputation as a standout songwriter of his generation. Artist Sam Carter Genre Folk Label Captain Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Silver Horizon A Place to Call My Own Simpler Days You Give Me Life Good Enough Through the Night We're Still Here Boxes and Bags If You Set Me Free All I Need To Know Sights Beyond the Sky Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Bear's Den First Loves / White Magnolias Folk | Communion | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th November 2023 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bear's Den First Loves / White Magnolias £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Communion SKU: COMM585 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View SJ Esau Small Vessel Folk | Anticon | 1LP Released 15th June 2020 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations SJ Esau Small Vessel £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Anticon SKU: nn205905 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th June 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Fairport Convention Acoustically Down Under Folk | Talking Elephant | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th August 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fairport Convention Acoustically Down Under £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Talking Elephant SKU: TELP081 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jesse Ahern Roots Rock Rebel Folk | Dummy Luck Music | 1LP Released 15th September 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jesse Ahern Roots Rock Rebel £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Dummy Luck Music SKU: DLM04LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Saxophones, The Songs of the Saxophones Folk | Full Time Hobby | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st June 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Saxophones, The Songs of the Saxophones £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH308LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yasmin Williams Acadia Folk | Nonesuch | 1LP Released 4th October 2024 £30.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Yasmin Williams Acadia £30.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597902518 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th October 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking Folk | Proper Records | 180g, 1LP Released 14th July 2023 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Proper Records SKU: UMCLP048 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th July 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Songs From The Suicide Bridge Folk | Modern Classics / Light In The Attic | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 11th May 2015 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Songs From The Suicide Bridge £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Modern Classics / Light In The Attic SKU: MCR913LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Magnetic North, The Prospect Of Skelmersdale – Indies Only With Bonus CD Folk | Full Time Hobby | 1LP, Includes CD Released 18th March 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Magnetic North, The Prospect Of Skelmersdale – Indies Only With Bonus CD £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH255LP Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 18th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joshua Burnside Into The Depths Of Hell Folk | Joshua Burnside Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th September 2020 £15.00 Select options Joshua Burnside Into The Depths Of Hell £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Joshua Burnside Recordings Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th September 2020 Read More Select options See more in Folk Start again
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