View basket “Rough Music” 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 Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler Folk | Box of Cedar | 1LP Released 10th July 2011 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Box of Cedar SKU: BOC001LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th July 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol 1 The Early Years (1963-1967) CD Boxset Folk | Rhino | Box Set, CD Released 30th October 2020 £65.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol 1 The Early Years (1963-1967) CD Boxset £65.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497849963 Formats: Box Set, CD Released Date: 30th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Essex Green, The The Long Goodbye (reissue) Folk | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th July 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Essex Green, The The Long Goodbye (reissue) £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG228LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laura Gibson Empire Builder Folk | City Slang | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 1st April 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Laura Gibson Empire Builder £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50091LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dry The River Weights & Measures Folk | RCA | 10", EP/Mini Album Released 14th November 2011 £5.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dry The River Weights & Measures £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: RCA SKU: 88691903081 Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th November 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch A Man Id Rather Be (Part 1) Folk | Earth Records | 4LP, Box Set Released 23rd January 2018 £51.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch A Man Id Rather Be (Part 1) £51.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP023 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 23rd January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emma Tricca St Peter Folk | Dell'orso Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th September 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emma Tricca St Peter £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Dell'orso Records SKU: EDDA47LPG Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Angelo de Augustine Swim Inside The Moon Folk | Asthmatic Kitty Records | 1LP Released 25th August 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Angelo de Augustine Swim Inside The Moon £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records SKU: AKR133LP-C1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Builders And The Butchers, The The Spark Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Badman | 1LP Released 9th June 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Builders And The Butchers, The The Spark £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Badman SKU: BRC911 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Captain's Ceilidh Wild Thyme Folk | English Folk Dance | 1LP Released 13th June 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Captain's Ceilidh Wild Thyme £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: English Folk Dance SKU: NN69868 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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