View basket “Mark The Hard Earth” 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 Luke Sital-Singh Time Is a Riddle Folk | Raygun | 1LP Released 12th May 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Luke Sital-Singh Time Is a Riddle £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Raygun SKU: RAY031LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Remembering Mountains : Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton Folk | Tomkins Square | 1LP Released 25th May 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Remembering Mountains : Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tomkins Square SKU: TSQ5180 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bridget St. John Songs For The Gentle Man Folk | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 30th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bridget St. John Songs For The Gentle Man £27.00 Genre: Folk Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M189LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Luluc Passerby Folk | Sub Pop | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 14th July 2014 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Luluc Passerby £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1090 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th July 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lisa O Piu When This Was The Future Folk | Subliminal Sounds | 1LP Released 30th November 2009 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lisa O Piu When This Was The Future £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Subliminal Sounds SKU: XMLPSUB33 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th November 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Fahey Proofs and Refutations Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 8th September 2023 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Fahey Proofs and Refutations £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC759 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View James Elkington Wintres Woma Folk | Paradise Of Bachelors | 1LP Released 30th June 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders James Elkington Wintres Woma £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Paradise Of Bachelors SKU: POB034LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Deer Scout Woodpecker Folk | Carpark Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th April 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Deer Scout Woodpecker £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Carpark Records SKU: CAK162LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Martin Green Flit Folk | Reveal | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th October 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Martin Green Flit £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Reveal SKU: REVEAL062LPX Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Chatham County Line Autumn Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 1LP Released 3rd June 2024 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Chatham County Line Autumn £12.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: nn287886 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd June 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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