View basket “The Moon’S In A Fit” 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 Alela Diane Cusp Folk | Allpoints | 1LP Released 9th February 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alela Diane Cusp £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Allpoints SKU: M6690 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Amidon Lily-O Folk | Nonesuch | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th October 2014 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sam Amidon Lily-O £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nonesuch SKU: 7559795453 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gigymen Gigymen Folk | Guerssen | 180g, 1LP, Includes Insert Released 21st March 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gigymen Gigymen £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Guerssen SKU: GUESS101 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 21st March 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chieftains Chronicles: 60 Years of The Chieftains Folk | Universal Classics & Jazz | 2LP Released 12th November 2021 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chieftains Chronicles: 60 Years of The Chieftains £30.00 Genre: Folk Label: Universal Classics & Jazz SKU: 3856360 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 12th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emily Barker Sweet Kind Of Blue Folk | Everyone Sang | 180g, 1LP Released 12th May 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emily Barker Sweet Kind Of Blue £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Everyone Sang SKU: ES153LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rails, The Other People Folk | Psychonaut Sounds | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st September 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rails, The Other People £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Psychonaut Sounds SKU: PSYCHED010LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bhi Bhiman Rhythm & Reason Folk | BooCoo | 1LP Released 18th May 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bhi Bhiman Rhythm & Reason £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: BooCoo SKU: BCM0011 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View GUISE Youngest Daughter Folk | Xtra Mile | 1LP Released 19th August 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders GUISE Youngest Daughter £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Xtra Mile SKU: XMR175LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th August 2022 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 Samantha Crain A Small Death Folk | Real Kind Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th March 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Samantha Crain A Small Death £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Real Kind Records SKU: RLKND018 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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