About
Christian Norton, born on June 24 1978 in Bromont, Quebec, Canada, started playing the piano at the age of five. Since the age of sixteen, inspired by musical scores for films as well as bands like Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly, he unleashed his creative side and started composing his own music. Later on, his music took the shape of songs with a strong classical influence and a dark lyrical subtext evoking Nick Cave, The Tear Garden, Death in June, Rob Dougan and others. The project naturally embraced the name Melankolya and after a few years of existence took on a definite direction in the summer of 2010 when Christian met in Istanbul Peter Murphy, the vocalist of the legendary gothic band from the eighties Bauhaus, while travelling in Turkey. Peter Murphy listened to his music and contacted him a few days later extending an invitation to join him in a studio in England for a one week recording session. Extremely honoured by this offer, Christian took on the challenge guided by Peter Murphy and helped by Mike Mason, their gracious host and talented studio engineer. In his studio, an actual sixteenth century abbey in the outskirts of Oxford, over excellent wine, the songs took on a different life thanks to Peter Murphy’s vision and resolution to lead this project out of obscurity into the world to be heard. According to Peter Murphy’s own words, Christian is the new Leonard Cohen, referring to the depth of his voice. When Christian returned to Montreal and finalized his album entitled Never Ending Winter, he concentrated on recruiting musicians and writing the scores of the songs for classical instruments in order to put the project on stage. The musicians currently involved are Sophie Pardo on the cello, Pascal Archambault on the piano and Caspian Kilkelly on the double bass. In addition to creating his first album, Christian has composed musical scores for short films, videogames, songs for other musicians and has lent his voice for various projects. Presently he is working on a vast amount of new material to be released in the future under the Melankolya title. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Melankolya
Christian Norton, born on June 24 1978 in Bromont, Quebec, Canada, started playing the piano at the age of five. Since the age of sixteen, inspired by musical scores for films as well as bands like Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly, he unleashed his creative side and started composing his own music. Later on, his music took the shape of songs with a strong classical influence and a dark lyrical subtext evoking Nick Cave, The Tear Garden, Death in June, Rob Dougan and others. Read more on Last.fm
Releases
Eternal Global Summer
2020 · 11 tracks
Solaris
2019 · 10 tracks
Dark Waves, Pt. 1
2019 · 9 tracks
Never Ending Winter
2011 · 13 tracks