View basket “Sky In My Pie” 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 Robin Williamson Love Will Remain Folk | Quadrant | 1LP, Includes CD Released 17th August 2012 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robin Williamson Love Will Remain £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Quadrant SKU: Q00002LP Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 17th August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Georgia Ruth Cool Head Folk | Bubblewrap Records | 2LP Released 21st June 2024 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Georgia Ruth Cool Head £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Bubblewrap Records SKU: BWR077 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 21st June 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Strawbs Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios (Live At The Queen Elizabeth Hall) Folk | A&M | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 10th April 2024 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Strawbs Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios (Live At The Queen Elizabeth Hall) £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: A&M SKU: nn284334 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 10th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) Folk | Rhino | 5LP, Box Set Released 23rd September 2022 £143.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) £143.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497841356 Formats: 5LP, Box Set Released Date: 23rd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alasdair Roberts Spoils Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 30th April 2009 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alasdair Roberts Spoils £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC392 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th April 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Martyn The Tumbler Folk | Proper Records | 180g, 1LP Released 14th July 2023 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Martyn The Tumbler £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Proper Records SKU: UMCLP052 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th July 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Decameron Third Light Folk | Transatlantic | 1LP Released 15th April 2024 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Decameron Third Light £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Transatlantic SKU: nn284582 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Townes Van Zandt Sky Blue Folk | TVZ Records / Fat Possum Records | 1LP Released 8th March 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Townes Van Zandt Sky Blue £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: TVZ Records / Fat Possum Records SKU: FP17061 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jana Mila Chameleon Folk | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th August 2024 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jana Mila Chameleon £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: New West SKU: LPNW5817C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th August 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Viv & Riley Imaginary People Folk | Free Dirt Records | 1LP Released 15th September 2023 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Viv & Riley Imaginary People £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Free Dirt Records SKU: DIRTLP0113 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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