Until I started to
play for myself was there a song to be heard...
As far
back as I allow my mind to wander (and wonder), I've always
flitted around on the keyboards wherever and whenever I
could find one.
Self-taught with a
pretty good ear has kept the surprises fresh and
bountiful. While mom shared her early childhood
training, entertaining
to my great delight on an inexpensive
upright in our modest (and snug) living room, for me, the
spring in the keys were sticky going down
and slow enough coming up, I just
couldn't (wouldn't) adjust, but was okay as mom's audience
(sometimes the only one).
Finding this less than smooth action of
the keyboard not very accommodating and thus, not what or
how envisioning spending my time, I would
only infrequently sit down on the cushionless, wooden bench
(after awhile, cold and steel) and peck, sometimes with one
finger, sometimes two,
seldom with both hands but nevertheless, a beginning and
forever grateful (and graceful)
despite my temperamental rants.
Yet keeping the spark active was really
only as far as I cared to walk; a church, a school music
room (where I learned the trumpet), a college
auditorium, a friendly music store or a
friend's home - a tap here a chord there and now using two hands with more fingers than
before.
Not until the twilight of my later years
have I immersed myself in the play and oh how bright the
light is shinning. Using a digital upright version
of the instrument but with key action
(and my frame of mind) much more to my liking and
receptivity, I sail across many seas where turbulent
waters seldom intervene yet the vastness
of the oceans always riding the crest of overwhelming the
senses.
Many doors with indescribable vistas
have opened wide. I can see what I believe to be the
rest of my life fulfilled over and over whenever
sitting down at the bench (now with a
cushion) composing what has become pure magic from the
imagination to the depths of my soul.
From me to whomever carries and touches
kindred spirits ... (CH
2023)
Songs
available for commercial use, let me know of your interests -
free usage for non-profit causes.
All compositions and instruments
written, performed, and recorded by Charly Humbolt - on
occasion, royalty free loops and sounds incorporated.
There are no AI assists or AI creations
in any of the musical compositions ... when/if used in the
future, it will be duly noted on that song's page (transparency in the arts as it should
be in the political ... forget truth to power, let's
begin and end on, truth to truth).
Although I have no control over applications I
use that may include AI within their design(s) ... if AI
information is noted in the apps, I will also include same on
the composition pages (CH [aka ScH] 2026).
Welcome
to the listening and visual experience
of original songs, music, compositions and melodic narratives,
sounds having their own voice and nuance.
Some new (as in now), some from the earlier periods of
discovery and creating and some, to appear from that
special space in the future.
You are visiting this
site at an exciting juncture in form as well as content
delivery.(as will become more clear
as you read through this page, see below "What's New
... ").
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and/or
thank you !
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"What's New ..."
Currently available (and/or
soon to be) on popular
music streaming platforms, and many other online listening stations,
These streaming, digital platforms and my
utilization of same for delivering the goods, so
to speak, is for now an experiment and in part,
trying to lessen the load on my self-managed
websites where all distribution and streaming fall
upon my hands ... has been a very rewarding
experience, however, with now over 200 musical
compositions, testing out to see if these other
resources might indeed, provide more time to
create art and not so much on the website
administration and management, is also an
important component of "What's New ..."
My
first album (in this new delivery system) was
released on September 15th, 2026, as
a nine set digital offering including two piano pieces noted
below. The title of the album is, Watchful Eyes, ... the cover art, an original digital painting
of the same name. Do check it out on one of
the streaming
stations you may already subscribe to.
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For additional information on What's
New, please go to my other song
and lyric pages.
And for now at
least, during this transition to the available streaming
stations. their new
home (or second resting
stop)?_
you will find songs on my web pages no longer have
active links to the actual music ... this is
intentional so as to gently, reroute the listening
traffic (your ears, eyes, clicks and anticipated
enjoyment) to these other delivery systems.
Catalog
1
The year noted at end of each song below
and on each catalog page = when recorded or when first published
on this site. Look for other songs from the other
current, eight Catalogs, to also migrate to new (for me)
streaming stations.
