View basket “For The Good Times” 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 Martin Simpson Skydancers Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 12th April 2024 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martin Simpson Skydancers £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: TXLP613 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Nickel Creek Nickel Creek Americana / Country | Sugar Hill Records | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd August 2023 £70.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Nickel Creek Nickel Creek £70.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sugar Hill Records SKU: nn269829 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd August 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nathan Salsburg Psalms Folk | No Quarter | 1LP Released 20th August 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nathan Salsburg Psalms £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: No Quarter SKU: NOQ078LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Oysterband Step Outside Folk | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP Released 12th August 2014 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Oysterband Step Outside £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: NN71188 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Elizabethan Session, The The Elizabethan Session Folk | Quercus Records | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th May 2015 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elizabethan Session, The The Elizabethan Session £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Quercus Records SKU: QRLP001 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch Birthday Blues Folk | Sanctuary | 1LP Released 13th April 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch Birthday Blues £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sanctuary SKU: 5414939921599 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Moulettes Constellations Folk | Navigator | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 2nd June 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Moulettes Constellations £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Navigator SKU: NAVIGATOR090LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emily Barker The Toerag Sessions Folk | Everyone Sang | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 6th April 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emily Barker The Toerag Sessions £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Everyone Sang SKU: ES143LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fraser A. 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