View basket “The Men Who Dream” 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 Nearly New View Product Quick View Jon & Mike Raven With Jean Ward Kate Of Coalbrookdale Folk | Argo | 1LP Released 16th November 2021 £90.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jon & Mike Raven With Jean Ward Kate Of Coalbrookdale £90.00 Genre: Folk Label: Argo SKU: nn233305 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th November 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Martyn Joseph Here Come The Young Folk | Pipe Records | 1LP Released 25th January 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martyn Joseph Here Come The Young £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Pipe Records SKU: PRVA028 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nick Drake Five Leaves Left Folk | Island | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 26th September 2013 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nick Drake Five Leaves Left £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Island SKU: 3734756 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Martin Green Flit Folk | Reveal | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th October 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martin Green Flit £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Reveal SKU: REVEAL062LPX Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards Bitter Better Folk | Compass | 1LP Released 17th July 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards Bitter Better £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Compass SKU: COM47531 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Meg Baird Dont Weigh Down The Light Folk | Wichita | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 11th August 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Meg Baird Dont Weigh Down The Light £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wichita SKU: WEBB445LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Living In The Shadows Part 2: On The Edge Of A Dream Folk | Earth Records | 4LP, Box Set Released 28th April 2017 £51.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Living In The Shadows Part 2: On The Edge Of A Dream £51.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP015 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 28th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Voices of a Generation Folk | Not Now Music | 2LP Released 1st October 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Voices of a Generation £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Not Now Music SKU: LPNOT2LP173 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris Facing The Music Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 13th June 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris Facing The Music £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: NN70111 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Funeral Bonsai Wedding (Steve Dawson from Dolly Varden) Funeral Bonsai Wedding Folk | KSE | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th July 2016 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Funeral Bonsai Wedding (Steve Dawson from Dolly Varden) Funeral Bonsai Wedding £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: KSE SKU: KSE2014 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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