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“Our world is an incredible place nestled in a cold, dark vase of empty space.”

Hi, I’m Murry, friends call me Muz. Welcome to my site.

“Butterflies fly, birdies sing, the cycle of the moon is a beautiful thing.”

Muduz photos of life’s little joys here on Earth and outer space and beyond. Imagine. Now is our chance. :)

I hope you enjoy your experience here. Slowing down to observe nature is a peaceful meditation. So put the kettle on and slow down to enjoy your scrolling experience. There’s music, photos, shirts and hats for sale and there are stories and movies too. Your purchases on this site or at live events help support the site and nicely promote life.

STOP - SLOW DOWN. CHILL. Put the kettle on and take some time. This is a page full of many things from nature, to space, music, designs, stories and more. There are links in the above TABS to shops, galleries and more If you’re on a mobile phone look for the three-line icon in the top left of this page. Official business shirts and hats below.

I’m a creative soul with a background in physics, geology, archaeology, energy systems, music, maths, chemistry and other cool things. At the moment I live and work in the outback of Australia and actively volunteer in several biodiversity groups helping friends help the planet. I’m not funded by U.N. or other groups so I rely on the generosity of people like you who care about life on this planet and future generations. Folks who can contribute with tips or donations or better yet by purchasing merchandise or music from here. You may enjoy reading too. I do essays of life the lighter brighter sides and the dark political sides too with conspiracies and science of us and life in space, you can find some writing on X (formally Twitter) or here in the Stories Tab above. ( MOBILE PHONES - CHECK the TRIPPLE BAR icon top left )

I also take photos and help organise public events bringing artists’ arts and nature’s natures together in a fusion to help promote awareness. If YOU want to get involved too, you can and in several ways. You can learn more about that below but first. This website, the people and the projects need support so please do visit the giftshops to browse for a nice little something for you, your friends and your loved ones. Your tribe.

The official business shirt, sorry Oh! FFish’ll Business shirts are for you who love fishing and taking care of business with a rod in one hand and phone in the other. You can safely tell your clients that you have your official business shirt and your official business hat on while landing a huge fish.

The fish is a barramundi. A magnificent fish for the thrills of their flighty fight to catch and release for the future.

Which shirt do you like best? The black or the white?

Sales help people help the planet. If you find yourself at the checkout and love a bargain and a way to help. On of the ways you can do both is by using the code FOTWB202310%. This gives you 10% off the items you purchase and by using this special code it allocates 20% of the purchase price in purchase credit to the Friends of Tumbling Waters Biodiversity Inc group which is actively involved in planting plants and pulling weeds, organising promotional arts and music events and other projects that help repair ecosystems for the future.

Friends of Tumbling Waters Biodiversity Inc.

Below are a few images of what the FOTWB get up to. You can also get actively involved and join a friend group or two to take advantage of some of the hands-on perks. You can start by asking to joing the FaceBook group here on this link. => https://www.facebook.com/groups/769797697538259

Bird Watching Walks around Tumbling Waters.

Arts and Music events under the milky way.

Friends of Tumbling Waters Biodiversity arts.

There’s a lot more to explore below but at any time if you just want a quick browse through lists, galleries and products then pop back up to the TABS, You’ll find stories, galleries, gift shops and more. The GIFTSHOP stores have T-shirts, Hats and other items for sale. But before you do that, you may like to keep scrolling as there are more discount codes below that you may like to use at the checkout. Note you can only use one code per purchase.

The idea of this site is to involve you and others as friends and to help each other when we can and as fairly as possible. Below you will discover the models of Mudzuz and the merchants too. The models is all about fun and you helping to present the items that you purchased and it’s like a testimonial too. The merchants of muduz however is about helping others, maintaining relationships and rewarding those who might have a flare for sharing the brand and helping increase sales of the designs. All of which help promote biodiversity and bring a little colour to the world.

Are you model material? I bet you are.

Selling clothing, designs, art, music and other items helps support the site and the volunteer work being done to help the planet. Presenting those items means needing models to show off the fashions. Do you have what it takes to become a Muzduz fashion model? You may not get super famous from it but you’ll be helping a lot. :) Do you think you could? Don’t be shy, it’s a fun thing and all-inclusive as long as you are showing off your purchases with a huge smile.

It’s easy, simply buy an item or two and when you receive it, put it on and take a selfie or two, then email it to Muzduz. You’ll need your mum and dad’s permission or be older than 18 years old. Plus by sending it in you’re giving full permission for Muzduz to use it only for the intended purpose of promoting the brand. See more of the models in Muzduz Models.

So go and look through the gift shops and buy your favourite items. Before you do though you may like to explore the existing Models, Artists or Merchants of Muzduz and select a 10% discount code that will save you some money and also help a wonderful merchant on their own journey. If you’re keen then you should also read the Model Terms and Conditions.

Keep an eye out for Merchants of Muzduz 10% discount codes you may even wish to become one and start earning.

Muzduz Merchant code SMIRA10%

Muzduz Merchant code SVAN202310%

Muzduz Merchants - Earn BIG instore rewards and more.

The merchants start out as a reward promotion where a merchant gets allocated a special code that a potential customer may use to gain a discount of 10%. The merchant then receives a 20% purchase credit ( like a loyalty reward - Buy ten coffees and get one free) only they can use that purchase credit to buy more muzduz items from the website shop. If they are really successful and get lots of sales then it may become a financial reward arrangement.

The merchants of muzduz are bargain hunters who want to earn some rewards simply by spreading the word about this site to help generate sales. So you may wish to become a merchant of muzduz and enjoy some rewards for yourself.

It’s quite simple really. Everyone loves to get a discount and Muzduz merchants have a special code that if you use it at the checkout to give you 10% off all items purchased on this website. If you find a merchant and you get their code then you can get 10% off all items including clothes, music and specialty items but only on purchases made on this site. You may even like to become a merchant yourself and help spread the word and gain a little something for yourself. Watch this site for more information on how to become a merchant and the rewards you can gain and all simply for offering others a 10% discount. Easy rewards and an easy product to sell. Find out more at Merchant Terms & Conditions on the link or in the ‘About’ section above.

Below you will find nature’s beauty, a little fun and a whole lot of love.

Warm regards.

Murry

Muzduz Merchandise - Here are just a few items.

PROMO SALE PRICE The Magic Moon & Butterfly Hat (BRANDED) Reversible bucket hat
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Flat out like a Lizard drinking... Stainless Steel Water Bottle
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Visit the Giftshops to see more merchandise.

 

There’s still lots more to see and hear. Keep scrolling if you like music. :)

Muzduz MUZIC

Don’t want to shop just yet? There’s more to explore below. Put the kettle on and enjoy. :)

Imagine that you have been travelling through space from a far away place and you come to an Eden like Earth.

A little music? - Muzduz songs “Tumbling Waters”

On the banks of the Blackmore River, in the Northern Territory.

There’s a place in my heart. It’s a tropical sanctuary.

Where Jabirus fly the sunset, through a vase of nature’s sounds and crocodiles swim the waterways

and barramundi swim around. Living life as life was meant to be.

Like Tumbling Waters, in the Northern Territory.

Would you like to hear the song? :) Click play.

 

Muzduz much more to explore below. :)

Here you can relax and enjoy a little music, be and see beauty in nature and maybe learn a little about the journey of life.

Muzduz write and produce piano songs. Click image to play an album.

A common crow butterfly. Click image to Link to the Butterfly Shop.

If you enjoyed that homegrown song perhaps you might like to hear other songs that muzduz?..

Simply click the Happy Face on the ‘Originals’ music image above. It will open a new URL page. There you can scroll down and click the play button and then return to this welcome page and explore as music fills the air and continues to play freely in the background. The music starts soft then progresses to a few nice rockin’ piano songs. They are my own original songs and it’s just me singing with my piano, recorded at home so please be kind. :) Tips are Joy.

Before you start shopping, there are three price ranges here. High, Medium and Cheep Cheep. The print-on-demand garment and print qualities are quite well reflected in the prices but as you will discover in the ( BH ) Bargain Hunter’s Cheep Cheep shop quality doesn’t always have to be compromised on price. The BH shop is about finding the cheapest deals with uncertainties for the quality and delivery systems. See the (pricing & discount) policies to find out more.

If you like shopping for gifts, just a quick note that at present the items in the POD dropship shops are qualities that match their price so a higher price tag for a similar garment often means better quality and service.

There’s also a BARGAIN Hunters shop so keep an eye out for that too.

Beautiful. Let’s begin with Two Blue Tigers?

The Blue Tiger

Simply stunning. It looks as if it’s wearing an indigenous ceremonial mask.

Tirumala septentrionis?

Certain plants can be planetd in your garden that attract certain butterflies.

Click on Nature’s Gifts button to view Blogs on biodiveristy..

CLICK on the IMAGE to see the Butterfly Photo Gallery

My My My Butterfly (Blue Tiger) Eco Tote Bag
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CLICK on THIS IMAGE to go to the Designs Gallery

Two Blue Tigers of Tumbling Waters. Imagine walking through the jungle and everything is green but for a few speckles of blue sky through the canopy and some of the blue speckles start to fly around like little angels. :) I’ve seen these once here in seven years and I saw two in the space of ten minutes. So, we’ve planted some plants they use and hopefully more come to visit or live here. Biodiversity sometimes needs a hand. More on the volunteer group I belong to later. :) Apparently, these are a long-lived butterfly species so the stunning design may be blessed with a charm for long life. I love the indigenous ceremonial mask and other personifications in the images.

Click on IMAGE to VISIT “The Butterfly Shop”

Digital Dream Angels & A little butterfly on the back. Women’s Crop Tee
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The Happy Wanderer Butterfly Distressed denim bucket hat
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This page OFFERs music to merchandise, butterflies to birds, Earth to the ever-after in outer space and even more.

BLUE BOLD TEXT, RED & BLUE BUTTONS & some IMAGES are links you can click to open a new page and delve deeper into it. Scrolling down there’s music, stories and designs for shirts etc. inspired by nature, life and outer space. Some funny fun ones and some stylishly stunning ones in stories, songs and images. Check the ( privacy policies ) and (Terms & Conditions) for info cookies and competitions etc.

There are FUN activities here that can lead to DISCOUNT codes for you to use in the shops on this website.

Click on image to visit the Cheep Cheep shop and see if there are any bargains in the bag or on their way. :)

Scroll down for a full experience or you can use these blue buttons to go directly to where you want to go. :) There’s shops and music and music shops and photos and designs and clothing shops and there’s a collection of stories too. Stories about the music industry, the natural world and the science and fiction of Earth and outer space. Little explorations of life.

 

Outback Butterfly Inspirations for hats, shirts, shorts and all sorts.

Welcome all, What is this all about?

If you’re here to answer What is this? please keep scrolling until you find the row of Red Buttons. :)

Entertainment, LIVE & ONLINE, MUSIC, FUN, PHOTOS, IMAGES, SONGS, STORIES, LIFE, SPACE, STARS, PLANETS & SHOPPING with DISCOUNTS and possibly PRIZES TOO.

To the SHOP? - If you feel you need a little retail therapy then I hop you enjoy your shopping experience here. Simply click the image above or the HAPPY SHOPPING link in blue below. :)

Life is Life and this is a musical site of sight and sound with Fun Activities and Love and Life and Legacies of Lore for some kind of unity in our global community. It has butterflies, birds, other critters and things of nature and space and science in stories theories and songs. There are photos and designs plus HAPPY SHOPPING opportunities and cool DISCOUNTS for music and wonderfully unique designs that you can’t find anywhere else but here on clothes, posters and lots of apparel and for printed on-demand so your special items come into existence because of you and your purchase helps the world be a nicer place for now and the future.

As we begin our journey, here’s a nice little Welcome-to-Earth wisdom.

All the spirits of all life’s ancestors are here with us right now in our stories, in our science, in our hearts and in our lore. They look through your own eyes and smile upon you in the here and now and they love your music and movement and spirit of life as you are a very important part of this planet’s beautiful biodiversity and wonderful mysteries of the universe. So you’ve come to a good place, perhaps the right place. Your ancestors smile brightly through you. Invite your friends as all good spirits are welcome here. They may help you in life and with some of the *Fun Activities* here too. Welcome to Earth.

Special discounts and prizes are for use in this website’s shops only so you can SAVE money when buying hats, clothes, wall art, music and other items. So enjoy the site’s sights and sounds and have fun. OHH! What have we here?

There is already a * SPECIAL OFFER * - of 20% DISCOUNT on selected items wherever you find (BRANDED) in the description section of those selected items. You may love the designs and want your items pure and without any website branding in the main design which is available but if you love the designs and want super bargain prices or kindly want to help promote the site then look for designs with (murrydesigns.com or murryrhodes.com) in the main design or as promo on the back. Find the CODE (BRANDED) in the item’s description panel and simply use that code including the ( ) brackets at the checkout when purchasing your items and you’ll get 20% OFF the price of that branded item. So you get the design you want at a nicer price and you also help promote this site by wearing it and sharing it with friends in your tribe. It’s about helping each other. And if you do see an item that is clearly branded in the design but hasn’t got the word (BRANDED) in the item’s description then please use the contact form and let me know so It can be fixed. :) The will be a special something for you if you do. See the (Pricing Policies & Discounts) link for more information.

Different discount codes can be found in more *FUN ACTIVITIES* you’ll find below.

 

Designs, Music, Sales promotions and stories. Perhaps you would like to have a song written that tells the saga of your heritage.

Contributing to Community.

Click to Visit the Mp3 Download Shop and Listen to Specific Songs.

Another part of life is about community and being part of one involves sharing who we are so this is me in a nutshell. In short, I’m a back-to-front mystery. Right now I’m 51 and just now learning photography and design. Inspirations from the life that abounds where I live in my bus, on a river bank south of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. I live with a small tribe of wonderful people who are my family of friends and we help each other and we all navigate this whole global tribe.

I’m a piano-playing performer, singer and songwriter now. Going back in time, seven years ago I was an ouback electrician helping folks in need and before that, I worked in geophysics through the Pilbara region of W.A.

Before that I studied physics, geology and archaeology at Uni as a mature age student. Before that, I travelled the world on a shoestring. Before that, was a rock ape working underground mines where I severely injured my back. Before that, I was working farms on tractors, in sheering sheds and in outback taverns. Before that, I was out of home at 15 years old and had no idea what I was going to do with my life. Life just kind of happened like a work-in-progress and so I hope that what I share here might help some folks with whatever they might need help with or just a little colour or a little music to help lift someone’s hard day or hard night. Life is hard and up and down for most of us but over all it’s a beautiful thing.

There’s an odd spiritual side to me too as life and fate and the weird things that make no sense remain open questions until they’re solved. If you like autobiographical reading and would like to find out more about me and my journey visit the life journey blogs.

If these things interest you then you’ll enjoy this site and perhaps like to support it buy making a purchase or donation and return for more stories, songs, photos and designs as more creativity happens. You may even like to get your friends to join in too. There are Fun Activities here that you may want their help with. I hope so because I hope in some small way this site might help some folks with whatever things they might have going on in their own lives. We never know unless we give it a go. As best I can tell most of our lives are just a mysterious work in progress like in the butterfly design. Cheers Muz :)

Click image to link to song videos.

Our stories, our Music and our Dance, our Friends and Family, our community and our contributions to our own little tribes and the one big tribe of life. Our understanding of Origins and Pathways. Not just for you or I or us human critters but for all life, simple and complex.

Our tiny little speck of a planet has the spirit of life and life is an amazing display of chemical chaos in a chaotic physical universe that only a moment ago was born of a universe of almost nothing but infinite space.

Here we are, here I am or was and here you are now and so after all of that and right up to this infinitely small moment of the present, one can call all this (for all the spirits and science and all the smallest of all probabilities of any single moment of any life to occur), a miracle for us to explore.

I hope you’re enjoying your experience here.

 

Ray Charles playing the Rhodes piano. Cranking out the Blues Brothers’ Shake a Tail Feather.


Fate by design & photography.


The birds and butterflies on logos and shirts began by chance. The world had shut down with the 2020 pandemic and indeed like for many folks, uncertainty and change were happening across the globe. My own injuries and problems were piling up and to be honest, lugging my equipment to and from gigs even with trolleys and lifting aides was playing havoc with life. Being a piano man performer was about the softest physical job I’ve done but age and age-old injuries and new injuries were interfering with that too so even before the lockdowns of 2020 I was already having to re-evaluate everything about music. Perhaps take on a softer role again. But what exactly?. I had no idea, I still don’t really. I’m not sure if all of us do or any of us. If I was some kind of rich superstar, perhaps I could afford to pay a roadie to lug my gear around and keep sharing the Joy. Ahh, you gotta love the dreamin’ but dreams aside music is more work than you might think and so if the old bod can’t work the job anymore then ya gotta move on. That’s fate, from a hard yakka outback donkey with a broken back you just do the best you can with what you have at the time and as time keeps on tickin’ and stuff keeps on changin’ you just do what you can to survive and if you get a chance to look up and breath, you might just smile at the world for all its beauty.

So 2020 started and March came along and my booking calendar was almost full for the year. I was parked up living in my bus on the banks of the Blackmore River in the Northern Territory of Australia. So throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, I’d found myself isolated in one of the most beautiful tropically biodiverse places in the world. A place called Tumbling Waters. Like most places though, a place might be nice geographically but it’s the people of a place who make a place more like home. Well, I wrote a song about the place and although this section is meant to be about how the design came to be I’ll pop a link to the song here. One of my earliest songs from around 2016-17 when I started out on this musical journey. A lot of the locals love this song it’s kind of an anthem and heaps of tourists really enjoy this too as they are often sitting right here on the Banks of the Blackmore river with me and connecting with the song under the canopy of stars in the night sky.

https://www.murryrhodes.com/mp3-music-sales/tumbling-waters

Back to DESIGNS and Photos.

In case you missed the music player above here is another link to it that’s if you like my music and want to hear some more. I put together about an hour of original songs for you to have to play as background music while you explore. Click on the Piano MOON image below. It will open a new URL page. When it opens, simply click PLAY and as it plays you can return back to this page to carry on exploring. Nice huh? :)

Click on the Piano Moon Image to play some Background music.


Now, where were we? Ahh yes. Tumbling Waters and Designs.

Tumbling Waters had attracted some university folks for recent sightings of the endangered Gouldian finch species. They’re really super colourful cool little birds. There was a buzz about the resort and a flurry of birders who heard the news and flocked ( pardon the pun ) but literally flocked out to see the Gouldian finches in the wild for themselves. Among them was a nice old bloke, a university type with an Arts background. Enamoured with the place he secured a grant to carry out some art fusion with biodiversity. His project was to transform an old birdcage into a refuge for butterflies. Planting specific species of food and frolic-type plants to attract butterflies and moths and so he needed a Butterfly identification poster made up but had run out of grant funds and he had no idea how to put such a poster together. My design skills back then involved little things like business cards, posters for gigs and album covers.

When one is a bread-and-butter solo musician in this day and age and especially an outback one then one either has to do everything one’s self or else have the money to get others to do it for you. The term (struggling muso) often meant the latter was rarely an option. The red piano man stick-figure image above was one of my early creations. So I had some basic design skills and offered to do the Butterfly Identification poster. Freely of course, as you do for folks who run out of money but need a hand to do a nice thing. We all have good times and hard times and help folks out if we can.

This Butterfly poster is a link to the Friends of Tumbling Waters Biodiversity Inc. - FaceBook - PRIVATE group page. Click on it. :)

I said yes to the job, not knowing quite what I was in for. Loading up lots of butterfly pic files was different than plinking around with a few photos and a paint app to make simple images for muso posters or business cards. I’m sure some of you are familiar with designing stuff so you may know what happens when an app gets filled to memory capacity. Yep. More memory and a computer upgrade were required. Found a second-hand one, cheap enough to afford and just got on with the job. You can see the end result in the poster here. A metal print-off was made of this and sits proudly inside the Butterfly refuge for people to use and identify butterflies they might have seen in the Tumbling Waters area. Nice huh? I use it quite a bit and lots of children love it too. “That’s the one” seems to be the most common phrase spoken in that refuge.

From the poster, one thing led to another and I was asked to and accepted the role of secretary to the Friends of Tumbling Water’s Biodiversity Inc group, a group that was set up by the university folks as a grant application entity for projects to help promote the region for biodiversity and community involvement. The POSTER links to the FB page.

It really is a nice role, a new one, a soft one but at the same time, it challenges some of my other skills gained from the rollercoaster of life. It was a very new official group that had no logos or brochures or anything of the like and so. I started playing around with logos and brochures and this was my entry into photography too. Photography beyond using the phone’s camera. I bought a cheap secondhand cannon camera and spent some time figuring out the buttons and so design and nature photography became a thing. The Happy Wanderer was my first butterfly and logo of nature. It was inspired by a photo I took of a butterfly called a Lesser Wanderer. You’ll find a photo of it in the Popular Pics gallery.

They look great printed on garments but when you see the embroideries they pop and shine with colour and texture. There are some with words and some without. When you see the murrydesigns.com or murryrhodes.com words in a design these ones are much cheaper than the same item would be without the branding. It helps you SAVE money and helps promote this site at the same time. It’s a little WIN WIN for you and I.

Butterfly Designs on shirts, hats, bags and more. CLICK on the IMAGE to see them on hats, shirts, water bottles and more in the store.

So you’ll find many lovely Butterfly designs to wear on your hats or shirts or pants or more but there are also birds and fish and other wonderful critters too even creepy crawlies. Browse all the shops.

Anyway, enjoy your journey on this website and keep an eye out for Fun Activities, Competitions or SALEs. I’ve just started making these activities in 2023 so I hope you find them entertaining and fun. They also give me an opportunity to give you a nice little something to spend in the shops here for a new hat or shirt or other items to enjoy.

MOVIES - Music, Stories & Designs of Life, Love, Laughter and the Universe.

Ohh oh. Here’s the science and music come together. :) My little lullaby song with some graphics. The animations are sooo time consuming. Fun but, you’ll see. :) Have fun.. Press Play and subscribe if you can too or would like to. I think being Australian on an American platform lends itself to lower distribution so your subscribing and likes will really help. It would be really awesome if you could as it helps sprinkle a little more Hundreds and Thousands of fairy bread joy on the world.

In the Bus studio where the music is made. Here’s an original.

We’re all children of the universe, little souls of sound and movement to explore and experience more to learn about more and more. Born of her chemistry and physics where music, stories and art are integral to our culture, our souls of being. Art is our universal language for expressing or communicating who we are, the things we love and our legacies for all. We explore and communicate our world to others in our songs. What’s your favourite song about? Life, Love, legacies or other stuff?

Are you ready to explore some more? There are GIFTSHOPS here too for when you’re in the mood for a little retail therapy and buying a few gifts for yourself or others or you can simply keep on exploring below and indulge in more music, images and story-telling. You’ll find one of the Fun Activities down below too. :) There’s a super nice discount code in it for you too.

Further below you’ll find my BLOGGS section bout Music and Nature and Space science too but before you get there, here are two video animations connected to the space blogs. They’re a bit serious but a bit silly too. The universe is a big old place and I just like to simplify things with the tools I gained at Uni. I throw in my own interpretations of how things happened too for those really big questions that keep boggling the mainstream as they keep asking for more funding to figure out the really tricky stuff. When I worked in the bush we just got things done. If no one was authorised to use a machine or tool then someone had to take some risks and figure out how to use or make whatever tool was gonna get the job done. That’s what I do with the universe stuff. The other stuff is just real-life stuff about nature from my volunteer work helping to restore habitats that progress has steamrolled and other stuff like music tales of starting out from scratch and encountering all sorts of wonderful people, places, events and famous faces. :)

The Galaxy and star formation animation and narration. :) 2022

The animation from the BLOGG of the same title. Jan 2023

 

MR Piano Man

Murry Rhodes Piano Man - Live performer, recording artist, cover-singer and songwriter.

Ellington Jazz Jam. 2015 before becoming a piano man for real.

Tip Jar at Tamworth Fest 2019 at The Press

The Lucky Tip Jar. Click on image and give a TiP for Luck.

Bringing joy to folks with my music is a Joy but Joy alone doesn’t buy fuel for the car, food for the table or rent for landlords so your kind purchases, generous tips and ongoing support really help me from selling my kidneys to provide a little extra for the time to practice and do the volunteer work I do and keep the music show on the road so I can keep sharing the joy of music and stories with other folks. What would life be like without our music and stories?

A lovely lady approached me the other day. She told me how she saw me perform five years earlier. Just when I was starting out as a live act. She was so excited to tell me that from that one night of fun boogie Woogie songs with lots of children dancing around, one of those children was her grandson and he was so inspired by the piano that he is now studying music and going well. The spirit in her eyes was priceless as she rekindled those memories pure gold for the heart. It was a blessing for her as she’d been very concerned that her grandson had no passion in life. With the music, now he does. That’s Joy for the heart and soul.

My own pathway into music was a little different. A long story is best left for the blogs but it is certainly colourful with wonderful life lessons along the way. When you’re out of home at fifteen and living in a violent place music is the last way a fifteen-year-old can get out of such a gutter. It took a few miracles of human kindness just to help get me on my feet and working in the bush. The piano didn’t really come into my adult life until I was off my feet again with a severe back injury. Like the Rhodes piano was invented to help old wounded veterans, teaching myself the piano was hard and very distracting but also somehow rewarding which really helped with a lot of stuff going on physically and mentally. Long-term pain ain’t fun so when I can walk without pain these are good days, great days for smilin’ and especially for singin’ songs. So if you ever see me walkin’ without pain you’ll see smilin’ and helping others when I can.

Below is an Mp3 Songs for Sale button or click on the Ellington Jazz image above, where you can listen to my original songs or royalty-free songs Freely before you buy them. I also play and perform popular cover songs but for the tangled web of copyright issues, it’s too tricky to arrange royalties on a private website.

You can find some cover songs online at most online shops like iTunes, Apple music, Spotify, Amazon and many more.

I know music online is great and cheap for most music lovers but while the corporate CEOs get mega-rich, the MUSOs get paid less than peanuts for their art. It’s more of a cheap advertising platform for us but if online shops are your only way of affording music then you can find some of my very early recordings of music there with lots of cover songs and a few old originals. They are still nice to listen to so have a search and enjoy. I think “Love to have a beer with Duncan” is the top song I do online at the moment. :)

I understand not being able to afford luxuries, I’m a muso after all and my own life of independence started early at fifteen without a home, guidance for skills or support. I rented a room in a house that had a piano. The violence of the outside world saw me resting inside quite often and trying to play the piano kept my mind off things. Beethoven’s - Fur Elise was a piece they had in the house and so that’s what I learned at the time and only one dot at a time. It was very tricky.

At gigs, I encounter folks who share their own stories and insist on buying drinks and paying Tips instead of or on top of buying any music. So for you very kind and generous folks or any punters looking for a little more luck from the luck fairies there are blue JOY buttons here run by PayPal where you can pay your Tips. It’s easy and safe. Tips not only help keep things rolling but they are a nice blessing of thanks from you in appreciation for the work and time put into the preparation and creation of it for the world and the wheels can keep on rolling. Sometimes the only thing we have is the song in our hearts and the memories of joy from sharing those songs. So click a JOY button whenever you’re feeling it. It really is a nice thing to do that helps heaps. Thank you kindly in advance. You may find an even more super discount code in the auto-response message as a special thanks.

Thank you so much for reading through my music section. I hope you’re enjoying the journey so far. :)

Beautiful Biological Beginnings

Rest little birdy, you’re home now.

Crimson Finch Family playing Splish-Splash with a baby on the left. Photos by MW Rhodes - (C)2022 - Tumbling Waters, N.T Australia.

The Crimson Sentries - Making sure the pond is safe for the family. :)

Endangered Gouldian finches. Teaching the young ones to fly.

BIODIVERSITY - I live and work in a sanctuary of sorts. A wonderful place. A meditation away from the hustle and bustle of the outside world. All that world news is just…. I live and work in the outback of Australia as a muse and explorer of life. I create and share nice music, stories, designs and images of birds, lizards, trees and people. I explore life, space and our place in it. It’s so big and yet so… Perhaps this website becomes a nice place for you to return to and share with your friends too, so rest little birdy, you’re home now.

Enjoy scrolling through a gallery of life. Beautiful images, some with a little light humour. Click on the images to visit the gallery. If you see something you would like to purchase and can’t find it in any of the shops on this site then please feel free to use the contact form right at the bottom of this page. Describe the image and what you would like to have it printed on. Perhaps you may wish to include your own quote to write :) May they bring a little joy to someone, perhaps you? :)

 

STORIES & READING

Enjoy reading? Here are some nice presentations on space, nature, pseudoscience with facts and fiction & more.

Nature’s Gifts

Nature’s gifts is where I first publish journals of my learning about life on Earth. I’m new to biology so it’s a new learning curve about new species, new plants and behaviours in nature that are truly amazing. They are quite short reads and there are only a few entries at the moment. I’m only recently just now Secretary of an official “ Friends of “ group that attracts grants and holds friendly get-togethers where folks from the local community come together to pitch in and help plant trees or identify and control weed species. We enjoy a nice morning tea too, so it’s really quite nice and almost surreal. So part of my role is to help with some small design projects and guide folks through the jungles of my tropical backyard. If you click on this link, Tumbling Waters. It’s a song I wrote specifically for this place that I now call home. When you hear the song, you’ll know. So my first project for the group was to help put a butterfly poster together. I’ll get an image and put it here somewhere. There it is to the right. If you want to chat about setting up your own group

I can get Photos printed for you as wall art posters for your home or office. You’ll see the range in the shops and who knows? If you see an image you like that isn’t in the shops and would like to have it printed on a special item then let me know. I’m sure we can arrange something nice :) In the meantime, if you like reading about people and nature then I hope you enjoy following my journey in the Nature’s gifts. articles. We all have to start somewhere. :)

Earth is certainly a nice place to live and call home in the universe for now.

 

Our Place in Space

Planet Earth is a nice place in space to call home and if you’ve ever wished upon a star or wondered about our place in space and the success of life then these are for you. I gained a few undergrad tools at university in physics, geology and archaeology and apply them to explore new ideas and simplify things of science. I see circles of science in Quantum and Cosmology are concerned and divided over old competing theories not standing up to advances in Tech-knowledge. So I play around with the old classical stuff and tinker with the universe from time to time. Researching papers and puzzling a few pieces together is a nice pass time. Still, I abide by the classical laws of nature and avoid leap-frog into unnecessary assumptions of things like interdimensional multiverses or artifacts of maths complicating nature’s path of least resistance.

I hope you’re enjoying the music by the way. The first few songs are quite soft and then some Boogie Woogie fun comes. :)

 

GALLERIES & SHOPPING

Nice, now where were we? Are yes saving the planet.. :) Do you own an official business shirt?

Here’s a little sample on items :) See more on the shop links below. How about an Oh! FFish’ll Business shirt tank top?

Printed items are printed on demand so your order goes directly to the printer, they make it and organise delivery to the delivery address you provide at checkout. Discount codes from this site are used at Checkout too so Look OUT for discount opportunities and HAPPY SHOPPING.

 

Crimson Knight and the Blood Moon

There are photo and design galleries here somewhere. I think they’re in the Shops Tab right back at the top of the page. There are some of my favourite photos in there and a few crazy and quirky early designs of things as I did when starting out on this path of photography and design. Just below is one of my latest creations, the Crimson Knight. I was so lucky that this year 2022 we had a Blood Moon so I could capture this moon photo and then incorporate the mysteriously beautiful Crimson finch photo. He was sent as a sentry to make sure the water pond was safe for the family to come down and play. Did you see the splishy splashy photo of the other Crimson finches? It’s one of my favourite most cutesy family photos of these little living breathing flying contraptions. So this little guy was really like the Brave of the tribe, like a Knight and as you can see by the drip on his beak and the wet plumage that he had just been splashing in the water himself.

So it’s a Blood or otherwise known as a Crimson moon and a Crimson finch. With the moon reflecting in the pond just above the little red sentry’s head like in one of those ancient Egypt Hieroglyphs of the Pharaohs. Hmm. See those little Symbols in the bottom right corner?.. You may like to take a closer look.. the little bird, the green stuff, the blue stuff and the multi-coloured sun ball. Do you like your Egyptian mysteries?.. I used my little Crimson finch logo where a different type of bird normally sits. Do you know what these symbols officially represent? If not then I wonder if you can guess :) Hmmm...

 

HUGE FAVOUR TO ASK - If any buttons or links don’t work and DON’T take you to where you were expecting to go. PLEASE let me know. Use a general contact form right down the very bottom. I make a little change somewhere and it sometimes affects things elsewhere which is frustrating so I need everyone’s eyes to alert me of any fluff-ups on the site. Thanks so much. :) In the mean time, here are some little inspirations.

The Gouldian finches are absolutely vibrant in their colours and such a joy to watch them play and sing I feel fortunate and honoured to be able to because they are an endangered species. The bright colours of the Gouldian finch highlight a spirit of confidence, intelligence and beauty. They have a playful sense and you’ll see more images and how they play and frolic. The Crimson (red) Finch is the sentry of finches. Click on the items for colour and size choices. See the shop buttons below for more choices.

Bookmark this site and watch this space as new designs and clothing become available.

 

MUSIC - The universal language.

It doesn’t matter what language you speak, music is a magical natural language for us all.

These little birdies are highly protective so getting in close for these photos was tricky at first. Then I sang to them. I sang “Amazing Grace” and then my "Lullaby of life” song and the magic of music in nature happened. They trusted me with their little birdie babies and came in close to play flitter-flutter and splish-splash. One little big thing about all life is trust. Just below you’ll a Finches & Flycatcher video. Here you can see and hear the magic of singing with nature. :) By yours truly.

 

The song “Lullaby Of Life” Perhaps your babies will sing this song to their babies in the future.

The lyrics, tell the space story of when the Earth and moon are born from a tiny hot coronal mass ejection from the surface of our Sun.

The ions recombine and precipitate into the molten Hot Earth and moon as they travel out to their orbits.

Part of the Earth’s own cycle includes the chemistry of the miracle of life.

There are two music shops. Clicking on an Mp3 song or album gives you a FREE song player to try before you buy. :)

De de da do de de de, by Murry Rhodes (C) 2023 Is that one of them Blue PayPal - Tip Hat JOY Buttons ?? May the little birdy grant you the best of luck. It sure would be nice of you.

Clicking opens a page to play back ground music. Let it Play.

 

Let’s away to the moon and Mars on a hot tropical night then. Non edited raw video of moon larking in the tropics.

7 December 2022 , Nikon P1000, Footage taken around 11pm at Tumbling Waters Holiday Park, Berry Springs Northern Territory, Australia

A little bit about the author/designer Murry.

This Earth has some systems and problems to deal with and if we don’t pitch in and help her then the future will be what we make of it for our babies. Let’s hope for and work toward a successful future for all of Earth’s life.

After a mud track of childhood, at 14 or 15 years old I was out of the nest and my life really started as a young dumb and strong work donkey labouring in the outback on farms and mines like a modern-day swagman. An underground mining incident injured my back severely and the outback labouring life changed.

At around thirty years old I went back to finish school. I did ok and got to study physics, astronomy, geology and archaeology at The Uni of W.A and then returned to the outback working softer jobs than the donkey stuff.

City life was never my thing. After Uni I worked in exploration and then switched to working with electrical systems. After fifty laps of the Sun, the old mining injuries and aging process mean I’m done with even the softer physical jobs.

It’s why I turned my hobby of piano playing into a Job. It’s a low bread-and-butter income and it still has its physical risks for lugging around equipment gig to gig but it’s the best I can do with what I have and it’s nice to give a little joy to folks through the music. I don’t know how long before the old body says no to gigs. I’d need to pay a Roadie a wage just to get from Gig to Gig and Gig money is barely enough to cover the costs of doing most of the gigs.

It’s why your purchases here and Tips are so important to help keep this website alive and the show on the road, especially in this day, age and economy. It’d be nice if this website started to generate a few dollars too. Perhaps enough to pay some roadie wages and other bills, then maybe the joy of this live music can go the distance for a few more years. We’ll see. Australia’s tipping culture is not quite like it is in the U.S. so We’ll see.

I just bought some nice pruning snippets in bunnings the other day and I can use a leaf rake to help keep the jungle a bit tidy. Pruning gardens and raking leaves is about all I can manage physically at the moment so maybe I start down that path to help pay the bills. I’m really enjoying getting close up with nature in photography and designs in helping with the biodiversity of this region so heading toward my closing chapters of life it would be quite nice just pottering around tidying up this wonderful Tropical Garden of Eden where I live and just let the musical life become just a nice memory.

Life can go several ways.

You are here right now reading this so something good is happening. I hope this site, the songs and the stories help you in some way and especially for you folks who may be enduring harder or more confusing times. I don’t know how but it might. If it does, then please let me know how. A little escapism or inspiration paid forward can sometimes be just enough to get some of us back up on our feet. On our feet is a good thing.

So maybe, just maybe my images, stories and music can help you do just that. If you want it to. Maybe somehow you’ll get to pay it forward too and so the world becomes a nicer place for it.

Like it says in the lullaby, You’re a miracle from the stars.

So anyway, let’s away, let’s away to our little luna sister the moon. :)


Our little Luna moon.

“Piano Moon” (Man, moon and piano) Moon photo & design by Murry Rhodes 2022

Here’s a little loony luna tune science.

Her monthly moonly cycles of orbit take 28 days and gave our ancestors a little night light, a concept of time and a tide of change plus a reason to Hoooowwwl at something.

She’s inspired stories and songs across cultures past and present and her tidal cycles and radiance increase the biodiversity of life on Earth.

364 days of the year divided by 28 day moon cycles = 13..

So 13 moon months for every Year.

She also moves outward about 5cm each year. Tidal forces from the Earth increase her potential energy. Her pull slowly slows the rotation of the Earth maybe with the conservation of energy. A dynamic dance of gravity of a wet ball of hot gooey yet crusty stuff.

The real moon. (x-marks the spot)

Luna Sea of Tranquility.

There’s an (X) on the image. If you find it, it’s where an apollo mission is said to have landed near the Sea of Tranquility.

Every time I see it, I ponder. As we learn more we ask more.

360 Days a year was the old original calendar but space, time and our tidal motions with respect to the Sun and other planets is dynamic. Is the Earth spinning at the same rate as it was back in those days? Does Earth’s orbital path do what the moon does and get slightly bigger with the Sun spinning once every month? Longer orbits mean more time to spin a few extra days. Maybe even hotter or colder climates make a difference too. Perhaps 360 was accurate back then?

If you like exploring archaeology, geology the physics of things or our ancient, modern and present-day sciences then you may enjoy my blogs in the STORIES.

Perhaps you might like to see the WALL ART LINK.

Do you like butterflies?

Happy Wanderer butterfly. A happy and curious little critter with a thirst for adventure and nectar.

The Happy wanderer.

Being an outback butterfly can be thirsty work. nature’s inspiration for the Happy Wanderer design. Photo and design by Murry Rhodes 2022.

This is a festive traveller and quite popular on bucket hats.

Some designs are more specific like this Awesome Blue Tiger?

Does life on Earth have a FUTURE?

YES it does, but what it will be and how long it will last is another question. From my studies in physics, geology, the Earth and space, I agree with Elon Musk in many ways, not in all but in many. As the complex species we are, we have the ability and resources to engineer for life to venture out into outer space conditions and so we have a response-ability and a responsibility to care for and preserve all life on and from this planet as best as we know how and for as long as possibly possible. Life travelling in the cold deep dark of space is not going to be nearly as much fun nor as beautiful an experience as it is here on this planet. The more time we have to prepare our descendants for that journey, the better chances they will be protected, comfortable and successful. Engineering machines and even our own DNA may be needed and none of which are going to be easy or even perhaps ethical but for preserving life up there.

Our planet has its own life cycle and although biological life here is truly a miracle for the science of it, it was never going to be a forever and ever thing. Ever. Even our ancients knew this with their Armageddon story but there’s no good reason why life from Earth can’t live beyond it and ascend high into the heavens for an afterlife beyond the planet. It won’t be easy, survival is the first and foremost challenge of all life and if we fail then we have succumbed to either fear, ignorance or pride which would be our shame. Ashes to ashes and dust back to stardust for Earth’s biome would be our last great tragedy.

You may enjoy the Our Place in Space blogs. They explore our histories, science, fiction and future possibilities.

 
 

More music on iTunes ? (click)

If you listen to or buy your music through online shops. Above is an iTunes link and you may find some of my really old music on SPOTIFY, Amazon and many other online stores too. Google it if you want. :)

 

WOW, NOW that you have a discount code, you may like to use it. Check out all the gift shops above. Perhaps some music, maybe a shirt or wall art. Buy something for your mum, dad, brothers, sisters or besties for adults or children You have at least 30 days before it expires so HAPPY SHOPPING.