View basket “Images” 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 Paul's picks View Product Quick View Bellowhead Reassembled Folk | Hudson Records | 2LP Released 30th July 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bellowhead Reassembled £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hudson Records SKU: HUD023LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 30th July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rozi Plain Friend Folk | Lost Map | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th May 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rozi Plain Friend £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lost Map SKU: LAT003LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Paper Aeroplanes Little Letters (CD) Folk | Navigator | CD Released 13th May 2013 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paper Aeroplanes Little Letters (CD) £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: Navigator SKU: NAVIGATOR081 Formats: CD Released Date: 13th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hush Arbors / Arbouretum Aureola Folk | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th April 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hush Arbors / Arbouretum Aureola £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL299LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Comus Out of The Coma Folk | Rise Above | 180g, 1LP Released 20th April 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Comus Out of The Coma £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rise Above SKU: RISELP144 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Bill Caddick Rough Music Folk | Park | 1LP Released 16th November 2021 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bill Caddick Rough Music £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: Park SKU: nn233365 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th November 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View James Yorkston I Was A Cat From A Book Folk | Domino | 10", 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 17th August 2012 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders James Yorkston I Was A Cat From A Book £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP290 Formats: 10", 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 17th August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View A Hawk and A Hacksaw Delivrance Folk | Leaf | Miscellaneous Released 2nd June 2009 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders A Hawk and A Hacksaw Delivrance £11.00 Genre: Folk Label: Leaf SKU: BAY64V Formats: Miscellaneous Released Date: 2nd June 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Fred Neil Sessions Folk | Capitol | 1LP Released 9th November 2022 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fred Neil Sessions £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Capitol SKU: nn253137 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Deep Dark Woods, The Changing Faces Folk | Six Shooter Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd July 2021 £20.00 Select options Deep Dark Woods, The Changing Faces £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Six Shooter Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd July 2021 Read More Select options See more in Folk Start again
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