View basket “The Ever Decreasing Circle” 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 Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol In The Club Folk | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 11th October 2010 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol In The Club £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP161 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 11th October 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Karen Dalton In My Own Time – 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Folk | Light In The Attic | 180g, 2 x 7", 3LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released 15th April 2022 £135.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Karen Dalton In My Own Time – 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition £135.00 Genre: Folk Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA20311 Formats: 180g, 2 x 7", 3LP, 45rpm, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 15th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fionn Regan The Meetings Of The Waters Folk | Abbey Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st July 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fionn Regan The Meetings Of The Waters £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Abbey Records SKU: ABBEYLP171B Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ptarmigan Ptarmigan Folk | Lion Productions | 1LP, Includes Insert Released 20th August 2014 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ptarmigan Ptarmigan £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lion Productions SKU: LIONLP137 Formats: 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 20th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches Folk | Nettwerk | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st November 2013 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nettwerk SKU: 3098717 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Lily and Maria Lily and Maria Folk | Columbia | 1LP Released 28th April 2020 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lily and Maria Lily and Maria £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Columbia SKU: nn201267 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Asgeir Bury The Moon Folk | One Little Independent | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th February 2020 £17.00 Select options Asgeir Bury The Moon £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Little Independent Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th February 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Niamh Bury Yellow Roses Folk | Decca (UMO) [GB]|Pop | Claddagh Records | 1LP Released 29th March 2024 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Niamh Bury Yellow Roses £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Decca (UMO) [GB]|Pop | Claddagh Records SKU: 5841911 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Greg Brown Freak Flag Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 1LP Released 20th May 2011 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Greg Brown Freak Flag £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: YEP2244LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th May 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Ghost Music I Was Hoping You’d Pass By Here Folk | Arlen | 1LP Released 19th January 2018 £6.99 £15.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ghost Music I Was Hoping You’d Pass By Here £6.99 £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Arlen SKU: ARLEN009LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th January 2018 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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