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Brand New Album Dropped Today!
Sample here:
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“Not Famous - Just Peter Morley“ - Jazz-Inspired Interpretations for Easy-Listening.
Peace & Love,
Peter
ZEN MUSIC - The Space Between the Noise!
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Ambient Zen Relaxation Music - Vol 2, by Sri Shanthi Bhavana 10 track album

BRAND NEW RELEASE FROM ZEN MUSIC…

"Ambient Zen Relaxation Music - Vol 2" - 10 tracks (88-mins) is part of a series of albums designed specially for relaxation, deep contemplative meditation and healing. Find inner calm and peace, transcend the busy mind, and totally immerse into the seductive serenity of Ambient Zen Relaxation Music.

"Ambient Zen Relaxation Music: Vol 2" - deeply transcendental Eastern-inspired relaxation music (Oriental/South East Asian, Indian Sub Continent, Tibet and the Himalayas). Eastern Instruments: Harmonium (India), Tabla (India), Singing Bowls (Tibet, Nepal), Koto (Japan), Bawu Yunnan Ethnic Chinese Reed Flute (China), Bamboo Flute and Pan Pipes (China, Bali, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand), Bells & Gongs (South East Asia, India, Himalayas). Western Instruments: Piano, Vibraphone, Organ, Synth, Electric Sitar, Electric Guitar.

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Ambient Zen Relaxation Music - Vol 2, by Sri Shanthi Bhavana 10 track album

Dear friends,
Thanks for your support in 2024. Wishing you Happy Festive Holidays, and a Happy New Year. Take care. See you in 2025.
Peace & Love,
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Peter Morley
ZEN MUSIC - The Space Between the Noise!
www.zenmusic.biz

Hey friends, hope you’ve had a great weekend. Here’s another little blast from the past (my past)… and few laughs.

Back in 1977, while in London covering HRH Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee celebrations, journalist Peter Harvey and I received a call from the publishing and broadcasting owner of the National Nine Network, Mr. Kerry Packer, our boss. He was staying in London at the time. He had some top secret news he wanted to share with us, and a request.

The secret news was that he was about to start World Series Cricket… something that had never been done in cricket before, a world first… and he was about to launch it. No one knew in Australia at the time, or anywhere on the planet… and now we did. His request was that while in London: ‘would I produce some Vox Pops (Voice-of-the-People) segments of ordinary folks in the streets… to help endorse the concept and launch his World Series Cricket?’ That weekend was a long weekend from memory and most of the Aussie press corps were going up to Balmoral. Peter Harvey asked me if I would mind staying behind on my own and shoot the promotional segments for Mr. Packer. Of course, I said YES!

I immediately hired the best filming equipment available for the job, and invited a couple of mates to come along to assist me… Bob Cheek, who was at that time the Australian Bureau Chief of VisNews, based at the ABC, who had the night before kept me supplied non-stop with pints of bitter while I was editing news footage for all Australian TV networks, and Peter Hiscock who was a freelance sound recordist and an Aussie ex-pat living in London. I wrote a few idea starters to give out to people, like: “If I was in Australia right now, I’d be watching World Series Cricket on Channel Nine!”… you know, gripping prose like that… then the three of us headed out and roamed the streets of London all day, generally accosting likely candidates and inviting them to give us their vocal endorsement in their own words. It worked really well and people were very happy to participate in our little promotion. We had fun.

It was not many years since the hit Aussie movie, “The Adventures of Barry McKenzie” (1972), starring singer Barry Crocker as Bazza McKenzie, a lovable if somewhat embarrassing and naive rough diamond from ‘Downunder’, and written by the great Barry Humphries, and set in London. As we were in London, we kinda wanted to live some of that adventure ourselves, and honour both Barrys. So we turned the production into a bit of a pub crawl (back in my drinking days). In the movie, ‘Bazza’ would turn up at posh London parties with his own beer supply… cans of Fosters beer in a little Qantas Airways bag (very cultured)… not trusting the ‘Pommie piss’ they called pints of bitter (as I said, embarrassing)😮. We kinda thought it might be nice to honour that… it was a great day. We would shoot a few Vox Pops, then retreat for a quiet refreshing ale at the nearest tavern… and of course in London there seemed to be one on every corner and six in-between. And so the day went… with us staggering from pub to pub… shoot a take, have a pint, shoot a take, have a pint. Eventually, instead of having to find a tavern we just found a plastic shoulder bag and like Bazza, filled it with cans of Fosters. As I say, it was my drinking days… I can just remember it. 🤔

We stopped here outside Australia House to immortalize the moment on film… toasting the two Barry’s, the memory of the movie, every Aussie, and our new ‘pommie’ friends in London. Peter Rocky Morley I reckon I look like one of the Blue Meanies from The Beatles 1968 movie, “Yellow Submarine”. I wish I knew you back then, we could have met.

And so, that was it. History made. I became the very FIRST producer, director and director of photography to produce the very first ever television promotional ads for World Series Cricket. Up until now, not many people knew that. And look at World Series Cricket today… a huge multi-billion dollar success for publishing and broadcasting limited and the network. Glad I was the first. I am grateful to the memory of the late Mr. Packer for the honour of having contributed right at the beginning.

Have a great week ahead friends.
Peace & Love,
Pete
Zen Music.

1976 - covering Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s visit to both Japan and China.

Here’s some pics from that momentous trip. We were the only westerners in the whole of the People’s Republic of China at that time. We got a lot of stares. On Lake Ashi in Japan, I accompanied the PM’s wife Mrs Tammy Fraser on a boat trip across the lake. As I filmed her, she held up her little camera and snapped me… if you look closely, you can see her face and camera reflected in my lens.

Several weeks later, back home at our Nine Network office at Parliament House in Canberra, I received an envelope addressed to me. The outside of the envelope said: From the Office of the Prime Minister. I thought, oh geez!… what have I done? On opening it I found this wonderful pic that Tammy Fraser took of me… signed by the big man himself “Malcolm”. Very generous!

Great times… good memories!
Blessings.

Peace & Love,
Pete
Zen Music

A lovely long walk on my local beach to blow some air through my brain… good to get out of the studio and refresh my thoughts by communing with the natural environment.
Blessings 🙏🏼💕🌞
Pete
Zen Music - The Space Between the Noise!

Hey friends… more from the past…

Film & TV Days - 1970s

After several years training at CTC-7, in the early 1970s - from daily studio camera and audio operations, to stills photographer, to photochemistry processing and printing, to news cameraman, to commercial cinematographer, to film editing and program production - all for which I am very grateful - I was ready and itching to move into the big-time.

Fortunately for me, the newly appointed Chief of National Nine Network’s Political Bureau, Peter Harvey, heard about my plans and dropped into Channel 7 and asked for me by name. He offered me a role on his team that was too good not to accept, so I accepted. In so doing I became his Chief Cameraman based at the Federal Parliament Press Gallery (and apparently, the youngest Chief Cameraman in the world at that time, at just 22). Although Harvey was a very experienced newspaper and radio journalist, he was new to television, so the two of us became quite a team for a couple of years. I enjoyed his friendship as well as working under him. He is the best ‘boss’ I ever had.

Soon after I joined the team, Nine produced a tv documentary on which I worked, about Jim Cairns, Deputy Prime Minister in the then Whitlam government. It immediately won a Logie Television Award, which was a great start to my career in the big-time (and the first of many awards to follow over the years). But that was just the beginning… for the next two years we hardly stopped for breath, as one big story followed another.

Following the dismissal of the Labor Gough Whitlam government by the Governor General in 1975, Liberal Leader Malcolm Fraser was appointed caretaker Prime Minister until a new election could be held. What followed was literally weeks of daily public protests at the Parliament, and in the city of Canberra, and in cities across the nation. Always very heated rallies, some of these became quite violent and I was often in the middle of the angry mob with my camera rolling… and sometimes I became the focus for their anger, which was frightening now that I look back on it… but I was always cool and focused on filming; it became my first encounter with mindfulness meditation… being there, at the centre of the violence, yet coolly going about my work, with no attachment. It would be many years before I studied mindfulness meditation, and became a teacher, but little did I know that I was being given a great opportunity to practice it in my daily duties as a news cameraman.

After a successful election win, newly elected Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announced that he wanted to visit neighboring nations in our region and elsewhere in the world, and we were off on tour with the PM. In the first two-year period I accompanied the Prime Minister on 5 international visits - Japan, China, Indonesia, the UK, and the US.

We were the only westerners in the People’s Republic of China, in 1976, as China was still closed to the west. I became the first western cameraman to film the famous Children’s Acrobatic Theatre in Canton. In Indonesia, Peter Harvey and I discovered the massed grave of the five murdered newsmen (our colleagues) in the Timor massacre.

I was personally invited to meet the US Vice President, Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, in the Gerald Ford administration (1975), covered stories and events such as HM Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee celebrations in London (1977); received a personal invitation to meet Her Majesty and His Royal Highness, Prince Phillip; visited Washington to cover Cambodia discussions with President Jimmy Carter; attended a Press Briefing session with President Carter’s Press Attache’, Jody Powell, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House (1977), and was for a time, a temporary guest member of the National Press Club of Washington.

It was a quite a time!

Peace & Love,
Pete
Zen Music

Hey friends, hope the start to your week is going well, wherever you are.
Let me share this great quote with you, from one of my heroes Carlos Santana - and I believe it is very pertinent to our world right now because there is a lot of unrest everywhere.
“We don’t have to worry about what anybody else is doing. All you need to do is: everything is a battlefield - but if you fight with anger, you’re the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re the solution”.
Have a great week friends.
Peace & Love,
Pete
Zen Music
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