"That's More Like It" is the debut single from the forthcoming album Idiopath, by Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures. Idiopath is a triple album, featuring 33 1/3 tracks. A companion album, Omnipath, is being released alongside it, with all of the tracks covered by other artists. A feature-length music video anthology, Videopath, will also be released in November 2022.

Pre-order Idiopath now: https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/255883

Lyric by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall, Mark Haynes, Chris Ilett, Pete James & Brett Richardson

Kenton Hall: Lead & Backing Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Keyboards
Chris Ilett: Electric Guitars
Pete James: Bass
Mark Haynes: Drums

Idiopath

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That's More Like It

Vivien Scotson (https://vivienscotson.bandcamp.com) has produced a stunningly beautiful version of "I Think You Would Have Liked it Here" for Omniopath. She has a voice to die for, and you should really check out her stuff. 

Vivien Scotson: Vocals
Stephen Gallagher: Piano

Produced & Engineered by Vivien Scotson

Idiopath & Omniopath now available for pre-order

Vinyl & Digital
https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/255883

Digital Only
https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/idiopath

I Think You Would Have Liked It Here - Vivien Scotson

A properly rare treat. Legends "The Swinging Laurels" - featuring Gaz Birtles & John Barrow - transform "Going Too Far" into something only they could have recorded. 

Gaz Birtles: Vocals, Synths, Programming, Sax
John Barrow: Sax, Backing Vocals

Pre-order now: https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/omniopath

Lyrics by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall, Mark Haynes, Chris Ilett, John McCourt & Paul Swannell

Omniopath

Going Too Far - The Swinging Laurels

Dumb As A Brick is from the album 'Idiopath' released 31/1/23
https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/idiopath

Lyrics by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall, Marion Fleetwood & Chris Ilett

Kenton Hall: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Piano
Marion Fleetwood: Strings
Chris Ilett: Drum Programming

Dumb As A Brick

An astonishing cover of "Dumb As A Brick" by Marion Fleetwood, who also contributed the strings to my version of the song. She took it in a whole other direction. 

From the album Omniopath, out 31/1/23
https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/omniopath


Lyrics by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall, Marion Fleetwood and Chris Ilett

Marion Fleetwood: Vocals, Many Strings, Guitar, All Kinds of Other Stuff
Tali Trow: Bass, Piano, Other Fabulousness

Produced and Engineered by Marion Fleetwood

Dumb As A Brick - Marion Fleetwood

"Careful How You Go" is a track from the album Idiopath.
https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/idiopath

Lyrics by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall, Scarlet Hall, Alan Jenkins, John McCourt & Brett Richardson

Kenton Hall: Acoustic Guitar, Lead & Backing Vocals
Scarlet Hall: Backing Vocals
Alan Jenkins: Organ
John McCourt: Bass
Brett Richardson: Lead Guitar

Produced by Kenton Hall, Chris Ilett & Brett Richardson
Mixed by Brett Richardson

Pre-order now on Vinyl & Digital www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/255883

Digital Only:
www.kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com

Careful How You Go

Andy Wales & Sarah Barton-Wales tackle the closing track from Idiopath as, unsurprisingly, the closing track of Omniopath. 

Produced by David Dhonau. 

From the album Omniopath, out 31/1/23: 
https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/omniopath

In Summation
Lyrics by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall & Brett Richardson

Omniopath Version
Arrangement and additional lyrics by Andy Wales

In Summation - Andy Wales & Sarah Barton-Wales

Dorie Jackson's (https://soundcloud.com/doriejackson) epic, sweeping cover of "I Used To Be Pretty" from Idiopath, as featured on the Omniopath album.

https://kentonhallthenecessarymeasures.bandcamp.com/album/omniopath

I Used To Be Pretty - Dorie Jackson

A paean to parenting. Not the pain of parenting. That’ll be in a different song.

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Canadian songwriter, actor and author, adrift in the UK.

Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures is the solo project (with very necessary guests) of Kenton Hall - Canadian songwriter, author and film director, formerly of the band ist. He is also the author of Bisection, a comic memoir of living and parenting with bipolar disorder, the writer/director of the feature film "A Dozen Summers" and co-wrote the 10-Part Audible drama Getting Better, starring Rhod Gilbert, Kathryn Drysdale, Neve McIntosh and Mark Gatiss.

Monkey Basket is a music and film label, responsible for ist's acclaimed Toothpick Bridge, the feature film "A Dozen Summers" (now streaming on Netflix) and the three-part Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures release for 2022: The album Idiopath, the companion album Omnipath (all 36 songs from the Idiopath sessions reinterpreted by other artists) due for release late 2022 and Videopath, a feature-length music video anthology which will launch in 2023.

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