View basket “Bones” 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 Michael Chapman Americana Americana / Country | Secret Records | 180g, 1LP Released 17th April 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Chapman Americana £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Secret Records SKU: CRESTLP108 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 17th April 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Melaena Cadiz Sunfair Folk | Misra | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th April 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Melaena Cadiz Sunfair £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Misra SKU: LPMSR082 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tunng Turbines (Limited Colour Vinyl) Folk | Full Time Hobby | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 1st July 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tunng Turbines (Limited Colour Vinyl) £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH170LPA Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 1st July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steve Dawson Rattlesnake Cage Folk | Black Hen Music | 1LP Released 29th June 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Dawson Rattlesnake Cage £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Black Hen Music SKU: BHCD0072V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Clannad Legend / Legend Extended (40th Anniversary Edition) Folk | BMG Rights Management | 2LP Released 25th October 2024 £28.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Clannad Legend / Legend Extended (40th Anniversary Edition) £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: CAT916DLP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 25th October 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yorkston / Thorne / Khan Everything Sacred (Indie Exclusive) Folk | Domino | 1LP, Includes 7", Includes Download Code Released 15th January 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yorkston / Thorne / Khan Everything Sacred (Indie Exclusive) £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP367X Formats: 1LP, Includes 7", Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colter Wall Songs of the Plains Folk | Young Marys Record Co | 1LP Released 12th October 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Colter Wall Songs of the Plains £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Young Marys Record Co SKU: YMRC0061 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sandy Denny Rendezvous Folk | Proper / Island | 180g, 1LP Released 11th November 2022 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Sandy Denny Rendezvous £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Proper / Island SKU: UMCLP009 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Joe Pug Nation Of Heat | Revisited Folk | Loose Music | 10", EP/Mini Album, Single Released 22nd July 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe Pug Nation Of Heat | Revisited £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP273 Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album, Single Released Date: 22nd July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Spiers & Boden Vagabond + CD Folk | Navigator | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 30th August 2008 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spiers & Boden Vagabond + CD £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: Navigator SKU: NAVIGATOR12LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 30th August 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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