I'm a guitarist, composer, music producer, author, journalist, and well, a lot of my time gets taken up with being a father to my two two sons, now 8 and 4. As a writer I'm known as Paul Tingen, and I currently work for Sound on Sound magazine in the UK, and music magazines in Germany, Poland, Japan, Australia, and Holland. As a musician I'm also known under the name Ramon Tingen.

I'm mostly self-taught on the guitar, but have studied guitar and music production at the Royal Conservatory in The Haugue and I did a music degree at the University of London. I've made one solo CD, May The Road Rise To Meet You (1997), which features mainly me on one solo acoustic guitar, and for which I drew my inspiration from a variety of sources: folk, rock, ambient, jazz, classical music, flamenco, and the Zen practice of Thich Nhat Hanh. For this reason Time Out magazine in London christened me 'Zen guitarist.'

I've also written a widely acclaimed book, on the electric music of Miles Davis, called Miles Beyond, The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991, which was published by Billboard Books in May 2001.

I'm currently recording a 2nd CD, Metamorphosis, with help from the great arranger and composer Paul Buckmaster (he worked Miles, Elton John, and the Stones) and composer/pianist/violist Lila Senior. You can hear my some of my solo work and also my a few tracks of the production work I did on my myspace site.

In 1984, I organised an open-air concert on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam called the Beethoven Marathon, featuring American composer/writer Gary Goldschneider playing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. The concert was attended by an estimated 12.000 people and attained legendary status in Holland. During the beginning of 2002, I was producer of two of Goldschneider's classical music albums, Sinaia and Piano Pieces. Recorded at the National Radio Studios in Sofia, Bulgaria, these feature Goldschneider's compositions, played by the Balkan Symphony Orchestra with conductor Conrad van Alphen, and Goldschneider himself on piano.