A song written in a low time looking forward to things getting better (which they did!)

Winters Snows

Troubled hearts in troubled times
Breaking, the ties that bind us
A darkened wood, a crooked path
That we must leave behind us
For yesterday took what it took
Tomorrow is an open book
Maybe the day that lady luck will come
And find us, and find us

(Chorus)
Oh, maybe. Oh, maybe
Our day will come, our day will come

Got to keep fighting
Got to keep, keep on trying
So sing our song, my precious son
And build a will of iron
Too soon you will become a man
Your future lies within your hands
For you were born under the stars Ram sign
Your birthing stone, a diamond

(Chorus)

And winter’s snows will melt away
When soft rain is falling
And all the clouds over our house
Will blow away one morning
And the breeze will bring us better days
Shining through the filtered haze
We will feel the scattered rays again
So warming, so warming

(Chorus)


Phil Riley 2006

Winter's Snows

Mind Games  see video here:   https://youtu.be/Z0KlAgilk8M

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

Amin - 96bpm
In need of additional parts to the track. Mixing and then mastering.
Need male vocalist to drop in rerecord the main toplines. 
Drums need major overhaul. 
Total time spent on the track - 2 hours.

Is anybody out there? - WIP - Fuzzee Boy

music composed & arranged by Julien Van Aerschot
https://julienv.be

Gnawa strained violins (from The Passion of Sadness)

Written & produced by Monaz Parry & Steven Horry
Vocals recorded at Doz Recording Studios, engineered by Al Drake Brockman
Mixed by Steven Horry
Mastered by Pete Maher

Guest backing vocals by Patrick Barrett & Jim Rhesus
Additional synth by Kate Dornan

It's Not All About You

Simply because I was born at a lucky time and in a lucky place I have never been obliged or forced into direct involvement in any of the cruel conflicts that have happened and are happening in the world. I find myself continually aware of this and grateful for it. This song is a kind of lament, I suppose, for those far less fortunate than myself.

The River Ran Slow

We thought we knew everything
Everyday was a spring
We didn’t know pain, we didn’t know change
But a change was to come
Yes, a change was to come
It came with a lie
It came from the sky
It came with a bomb

But how would we tell?
How could we know?
When our hearts were young
And the river ran slow

Watching darkening skies
Through rose coloured eyes
Hearing the sound that was shaking the ground
Well a pen or a gun
When all said and done
It comes to the same
When it comes to the blame
So why did we have to run

But how would we tell?
How could we know?
When our hearts were young
And the river ran slow

Flow sweet river flow
And blow gentle winds
Sway sweet willows-o
When will we dream again?

But how would we tell?
How could we know?
When our hearts were young
And the river ran slow

When our hearts were young
And the river ran slow

Phil Riley
October 2022

The River Ran Slow

Premonition video here: https://youtu.be/p5ObgHjSQSc

The first tale from the never-album "Short Stories Told From Ledges".

Guitar/vocals: Phillip Eldridge-Smith
Percussion: Jon Steele
Additional vocals: Talie Rose Eigeland

Recorded by Matt Saunders
Mixed and mastered by PES

Short Stories Told From Ledges

Y Fini Allt

Recorded live at the SoundHive Social at Duffy's Bar, Leicester and mixed by Chris Ilett. It's not perfect, but it hopefully gets the vibe of my latest song across.

Always Making Promises

i just learned to dj, this is the result after 2 hrs of practice.....

pre_mix 4 jackys geburtstag

DJ mix Nr. 1

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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