Paul Mounsey is a musician from Scotland. He has lived in Brazil since the early 1980s and has found similarities between traditional Scottish folk music and Brazilian music. Paul Mounsey is an honours graduate from Trinity College, London where he studied with Richard Arnell. He lectured for a short while at Goldsmiths College before moving on as creative director of Play It Again, one of the biggest commercial music houses in Brazil. He recently composed a song called "Senses" especially for the VisitScotland television commercial. Senses is an edited version of the original song "North", from his album Nahoo Too. Mounsey also worked on two Runrig albums, The Stamping Ground (2001) and Proterra (2003). To date, Paul Mounsey has released 5 solo albums:
- Nahoo (1994)
1. Passing Away 2. Alba 3. Robert Campbell's Lament 4. Journeyman 5. Dalmore 6. Stranger in a Strange Land 7. As Terras Baixas da Holanda 8. From Ebb to Flood 9. I Will Go 10. My Faithful Fond One 11. Illusion
- NahooToo (1997)
1. Rememberance 2. Wherever You Go 3. North 4. Infinite Contempt 5. Another Clearance 6. Kaiwá Farewell 7. Psalm 8. Turned on the Dog 9. Nahoo 10. The Fields of Robert John 11. Fall 12. A Mhairead Og (Young Margaret), Pt. 1 13. A Mhairead Og (Young Margaret), Pt. 2 14. Red River 15. Hope Your Not Guilty 16. Nahoo (Reprise) 17. Lullaby
- Nahoo 3 - Notes from the Republic (1999)
1. Nahoo Nation 2. Idependance Blues 3. The Keening 4. Notes From the Rupublic 5. Unfinished Business 6. Don Roberto's Sabbath 7. Night Falls 8. Mad Litany 9. Carver Angus With Bites 10. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 11. Reel Slow 12. Taking Leave 13. Fiunary 14. Last Thoughts
- City of Walls (2003)
1. City of Walls 2. Since... 3. Dunfermline 4. Heaven's Full 5. Work Song 6. Billy's Birl 7. The Bridge 8. Gad Ionndrainn 9. A Ferro E Fogo 10. Nothing To Lose 11. A Child 12. Taking Back The Land 13. Nineteen Trees 14. Annie
- Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past) (2005)
1. Iomair Thusa Choinnich Cridhe 2. Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past) 3. Gleann An Fhraoich 4. M'eudail Air Do Shuilean Donna / A'nochd 's a-Raoir 5. Thig Am Bata 6. Fill-lu o ru hu o / Mor a Cheannaich 7. Beacon No 1 8. Tim(e) 9. Beacon No 2 10. A' Feitheamh Fad' 11. Beacon No 3 12. Lewis Rain (information partially drawn from Folk World magazine - http://www.folkworld.de)
