View basket “Tightrope” 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 Kathryn Joseph for you who are the wronged Folk | Rock Action | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 22nd April 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kathryn Joseph for you who are the wronged £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rock Action SKU: ROCKACT144LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Josiah Johnson Every Feeling On A Loop Folk | Anti | 1LP Released 4th September 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Josiah Johnson Every Feeling On A Loop £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Anti SKU: 277371 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Moreland LP5 Folk | Old Omens | 1LP Released 17th January 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Moreland LP5 £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Old Omens SKU: OM0021LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marissa Nadler Little Hells Folk | Kemado | 1LP Released 27th April 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marissa Nadler Little Hells £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: Kemado SKU: KEM086 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View William Fitzsimmons Lions Folk | Nettwerk | 1LP Released 17th February 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders William Fitzsimmons Lions £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nettwerk SKU: 309971 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Watchhouse Such Jubilee Folk | Yep Roc | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd March 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Watchhouse Such Jubilee £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Yep Roc SKU: LPYEP3045C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lissie Carving Canyons Folk | Lionboy Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th September 2022 £22.00 Select options Lissie Carving Canyons £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Lionboy Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th September 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Andrew Combs Sundays Folk | Loose Music | 1LP Released 19th August 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Andrew Combs Sundays £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP274 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest Americana / Country | Acony Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th July 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Acony Records SKU: 0805147110939 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hush Arbors / Arbouretum Aureola Folk | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 5th April 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hush Arbors / Arbouretum Aureola £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL299LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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