View basket “Silly Sisters” 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 Alan Lomax Root Hog Or Die : 100 Years, 100 Songs An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute Folk | Mississippi Records | 6LP, Box Set Released 19th August 2016 £100.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alan Lomax Root Hog Or Die : 100 Years, 100 Songs An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute £100.00 Genre: Folk Label: Mississippi Records SKU: MRP060 Formats: 6LP, Box Set Released Date: 19th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver Folk | 4AD | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 20th June 2011 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: 4AD SKU: CAD3117 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th June 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alasdair Roberts Grief in The Kitchen and Mirth in The Hall Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 31st March 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alasdair Roberts Grief in The Kitchen and Mirth in The Hall £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC862 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Christy Moore Live At The Point Folk | Sony Music | 180g, 1LP Released 10th April 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Christy Moore Live At The Point £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985420121 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mary Black Full Tide Folk | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd July 2009 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mary Black Full Tide £34.00 Genre: Folk Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPRLP011 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd July 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Devendra Banhart Mala Folk | Nonesuch | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released 24th April 2013 £35.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Devendra Banhart Mala £35.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nonesuch SKU: 7559795968 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes CD Released Date: 24th April 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Blowzabella Wall of Sound Folk | Plant Life | 1LP Released 3rd June 2013 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Blowzabella Wall of Sound £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Plant Life SKU: NN57575 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd June 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Jim Croce I Got A Name – 50th Anniversary Bone White vinyl Folk | BMG | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th August 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jim Croce I Got A Name – 50th Anniversary Bone White vinyl £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: BMG SKU: 4050538904550 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Peter Walker Second Poem To Karmela Or Gypsies Are Important Folk | Light In The Attic | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th February 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Peter Walker Second Poem To Karmela Or Gypsies Are Important £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Light In The Attic SKU: LITA113LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Barna Howard Quite A Feelin Folk | Loose Music | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th May 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Barna Howard Quite A Feelin £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP223 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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