Title: This Is the Sea
Content:  Scott began writing songs for This Is the Sea in the spring of 1984, beginning with the song "Trumpets". Scott recalls that in December 1984 "during The Waterboys' first American tour, [he] bought two huge hard-bound books... in which to assemble [his] new songs" For the following two months Scott worked on the songs in his apartment, writing the lyrics, and working on guitar and piano arrangements. Scott wrote between thirty-five and forty songs, but felt that the nine songs that made it onto the album "were the ones that were intended to be there". The first song from the album to be played live was "Trumpets", on 10 April 1984. The first recording session for This Is the Sea began in March 1985 at Park 
Title: This Is the Sea (film)
Content:  The film's soundtrack uses seven different Waterboys songs. Mike Scott, The Waterboys' lead singer, shares music credits for the film with singer Brian Kennedy.
Title: This Is the Sea (film)
Content:  The film's title comes from the song "This Is the Sea" from the 1985 music album This Is the Sea by the folk-rock band The Waterboys.
Title: This Is the Sea (film)
Content:  This Is the Sea is a 1997 Irish film directed and written by Mary McGuckian and produced by Michael Garland. It is a romance film, focusing on the relationship between the character Hazel Stokes, played by Samantha Morton, and Malachy McAliskey, played by Ross McDade.
Title: This Is the Sea
Content:  This Is the Sea is the third The Waterboys album, and the last of their "Big Music" albums. Considered by critics to be the finest album of their early rock-oriented sound, described as "epic" and "a defining moment", it was the first Waterboys album to enter the United Kingdom charts, peaking at number 37. Steve Wickham makes his Waterboys recording debut playing violin on 'The Pan Within' and subsequently joined the band, appearing on the video of "The Whole of the Moon". This Is the Sea is the last album with contributions from Karl Wallinger, who left the group to form his own band, World Party. Mike Scott, the album's principal songwriter and leader of The Waterboys, describes This Is the Sea as "the record on which I achieved 
Title: This Is the Sea
Content: 1) "Don't Bang the Drum" (Scott, Karl Wallinger) – 6:46 ; 2) "The Whole of the Moon" – 4:58 ; 3) "Spirit" – 1:50 ; 4) "The Pan Within" – 6:13 ; 5) "Medicine Bow" (Scott, Anthony Thistlethwaite) – 2:45 ; 6) "Old England" – 5:32 ; 7) "Be My Enemy" – 4:16 ; 8) "Trumpets" – 3:37 ; 9) "This Is the Sea" – 6:29 All songs written by Mike Scott except where noted. 
Title: Toward the Sea
Content:  Toward the Sea (海へ) is a work by the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, commissioned by Greenpeace for the Save the Whales campaign.
Title: This Is the Sea
Content:  Mike Scott's creative thinking." "This Is the Sea" was first performed in Worcester on 2 December 1984, and a longer version than would eventually appear on the album, was played at a benefit concert for miners in February 1985. Despite these performances the song is seldom performed live as Scott finds it difficult to replace the studio's version's ocean effects in such a setting, also stating that he find the  melody "very limiting " going on to say "My abilities with melodies have improved a lot, have developed a lot since those days, and that song doesn't really make 
Title: Song of the Sea (2014 film)
Content: Track listing The original music for the film was composed by Bruno Coulais, in collaboration with the Irish group Kíla. "The Derry Tune" originally featured on Kíla's 2010 album Soisín. The film also features the voice of Lisa Hannigan and songs by Nolwenn Leroy. A soundtrack album, consisting of 25 songs from the film, was released digitally on 9 December 2014 by Decca Records. 
Title: This Is the Sea
Content:  Studio in Hastings, England with engineer and producer John Brand. Band members Scott, Anthony Thistlethwaite, Karl Wallinger, Chris Whitten, and Roddy Lorimer performed the new material. Wallinger's home studio heard demo recordings for a number of the album's songs. Some of the recordings, like the ones of the last two albums, are relatively untouched by studio engineering. On other recordings, however, Scott added a drum machine and layered the sound, using a studio technique similar to that of the famous record producer Phil Spector, with help from Wallinger. "Having Karl [Wallinger] in the studio", writes Scott, "was like having a one-man orchestra around. There might have been a This Is the Sea without him, but it wouldn't have been the same – or as good". (Nonetheless, 

Question: Who was the composer of This Is the Sea?
Answer: Mike Scott.
Michael Scott.