View basket “Wrought Iron” 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 Cara Dillon Cara Dillon Folk | Charcoal | 1LP Released 24th September 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cara Dillon Cara Dillon £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Charcoal SKU: CHARLP003 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View DRAG THE RIVER Drag The River Folk | Xtra Mile | 1LP Released 12th March 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DRAG THE RIVER Drag The River £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Xtra Mile SKU: XMR081 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gloaming, The The Gloaming 3 Folk | Real World | 2LP Released 22nd February 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gloaming, The The Gloaming 3 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Real World SKU: LPRW223 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 22nd February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wizz Jones Right Now Folk | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 15th March 2011 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wizz Jones Right Now £34.00 Genre: Folk Label: Speakers Corner SKU: S64809 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 15th March 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Chatham County Line Tightrope Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 1LP, Includes CD Released 3rd June 2024 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Chatham County Line Tightrope £12.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: nn287883 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 3rd June 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Michael Chapman True North (Indies Only) Folk | Paradise Of Bachelors | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 5th February 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Chapman True North (Indies Only) £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Paradise Of Bachelors SKU: POB044LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Christy Moore Flying Into Mystery Folk | Sony | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th November 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Christy Moore Flying Into Mystery £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sony SKU: 19439845981 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mark Fry Dreaming With Alice Folk | Now Again | 1LP Released 11th June 2021 £53.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mark Fry Dreaming With Alice £53.00 Genre: Folk Label: Now Again SKU: NA5208LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Avocet Folk | Earth Records | 1LP Released 22nd April 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Avocet £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Records SKU: EARTHLP010L Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View First Aid Kit Lion’s Roar Folk | Wichita | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 20th January 2012 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations First Aid Kit Lion’s Roar £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wichita SKU: WEBB320LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th January 2012 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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