Humuncules Music

Check out the latest album, Roots and Branches, by Steve Klingaman

Lenne Klingaman's Phoenix on Vinyl, Order Now for Christmas

Hit the Contact page to order Steve's CDs for Christmas

Check out the latest album, Roots and Branches, by Steve Klingaman

Check out the updated website featuring release lyrics and new songs and pages!

At Project North Festival 2024

Lenne Klingaman's Phoenix on Vinyl, Order Now for Christmas

Or stream Phoenix & download the album please!

Hit the Contact page to order Steve's CDs for Christmas

Welcome to Humuncules Music

That’s “Hugh-Monk-You-Leeze” …It’s easy!

Read the story of Roots and Branches in Steve’s blog

Releases

See current releases and back catalogue

Read about Steve Klingaman and his micro-label Humuncules Music!

My thoughts on Writing, recording and playing music.

Shoshin – Beginner’s Mind Shoshin is a Zen Buddhist concept introduced to me by Louis Patler, one of my teachers in graduate school. It means beginner’s mind. Beginner’s mind is the mental state of being open, receptive, eager, unafraid of failure, willingly naïve, devoid of preconceptions. Shunryu Suzuki writes in…

All Ideas Are Serendipitous

Portrait of a person with hair covering their face in dim lighting.

It seems nothing in songwriting is as important as the germ of an idea. It doesn’t really matter how many hours you put in to the final product if the germ or the spark of a good idea is not in play from the start. Those sparks are the raw…