Paul Mounsey is a composer, arranger and producer from Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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He lived for over 20 years in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. A graduate of Trinity College, London, where he studied with Richard Arnell

Richard Arnell

Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...

, he has written for film, television, theatre, advertising and also for the Latin American pop market. He lectured for a short while at Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths College

Goldsmiths, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute...

 before moving on as creative director of Play It Again, one of the biggest commercial music houses in Brazil. He has also written articles on various aspects of music. He’s written pop hits for Mexican boy bands, has received commissions for chamber and multimedia works, has lived with and recorded the music of indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest, and to date has released five solo albums. Paul's music has featured in the television and cinema adverts for tourism boards such as VisitScotland. He is currently based in Los Angeles working as composer, orchestrator and programmer in the film industry.

Solo albums

To date, Paul Mounsey has released 5 solo albums:

• Nahoo
  Nahoo
  Nahoo is the first album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey.-Track listing:# "Passing Away" # "Alba" # "Robert Campbell's Lament" # "Journeyman" # "Dalmore" # "Stranger In A Strange Land"...
  
  (1994)
• NahooToo
  NahooToo
  NahooToo is the second album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey.-Track listing:# "Remembrance" # "Wherever You Go" # "North" # "Infinite Contempt" # "Another Clearance" # "Kaiwa Farewell" # "Psalm"...
  
  (1997)
• Nahoo 3 - Notes from the Republic
  Nahoo 3 - Notes from the Republic
  Nahoo 3 - Notes from the Republic is the third album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey released in 1999 .-Track listing:#"Nahoo Nation"#"Independence Blues"#"The Keening"#"Notes From the Rupublic"#"Unfinished Business"...
  
  (1999)
• City of Walls
  City of Walls
  City of Walls is the fourth album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey released in 2003 .- Track listing :# "City of Walls"# "Since..."# "Dunfermline"# "Heaven's Full"# "Work Song"# "Billy's Birl"# "The Bridge"# "Gad Ionndrainn"...
  
  (2003)
• Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past)
  Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past)
  Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad is the fifth album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey released in 2005 .- Track listing :# "Iomair Thusa Choinnich Cridh"# "Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad "...
  
  (2005)

External links

• BDi Music Composer Biography
• Planeta Musical Sur
• Folk World interview
• Green Man Review
• [ allmusic entry]