View basket “Dancing” 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 Matt Berry Phantom Birds Americana / Country | Acid Jazz | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th September 2020 £19.00 Select options Matt Berry Phantom Birds £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Acid Jazz Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th September 2020 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Wood Brothers, The Live At The Barn Folk | Honey Jar Records | 1LP Released 7th February 2023 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Wood Brothers, The Live At The Barn £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Honey Jar Records SKU: nn257571 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th February 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Karine Polwart (with Steven Polwart & Inge Thomson) Laws Of Motion Folk | Hudson Records | 1LP Released 19th October 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Karine Polwart (with Steven Polwart & Inge Thomson) Laws Of Motion £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hudson Records SKU: HUD014LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan Good As I Been To You (SuperVinyl) Folk | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 1LP Released 1st March 2024 £67.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bob Dylan Good As I Been To You (SuperVinyl) £67.00 Genre: Folk Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: LMF532SV Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st March 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Scott Fagan South Atlantic Blues Folk | Earth Recordings | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th February 2024 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Scott Fagan South Atlantic Blues £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Recordings SKU: EARTHLP058 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jon Boden Afterglow Folk | Hudson Records | 1LP Released 4th October 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Boden Afterglow £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hudson Records SKU: HUD004LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Luluc Diamonds Folk | Community Music | 1LP Released 15th September 2023 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Luluc Diamonds £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Community Music SKU: CMG060 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Malcolm'S Interview Breakfast In Bedlam Folk | Special Delivery | 1LP Released 12th August 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Malcolm'S Interview Breakfast In Bedlam £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: Special Delivery SKU: NN71074 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Tim Hardin 3 – Live in Concert 1968 (3 Sides) Folk | Lilith | 1LP Released 21st September 2006 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tim Hardin 3 – Live in Concert 1968 (3 Sides) £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lilith SKU: LR118 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st September 2006 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Topic Records – The Real Sound Of Folk Music Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 20th October 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Topic Records – The Real Sound Of Folk Music £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: VIN180LP125 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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