GriffonVox

GriffonVox connects with the source of the Independent Underground in relation to creativity, to unity in diversity. By the expressive means of performance, GriffonVox emphasizes also the importance of environmental awareness.


Electronic Wave Performance

The performance project Griffonvox started out as "Greifenkeil", founded by Lord Athanor, with the intention to develop an individual style of music, and to present this to the audience as an unforgettable event, a high quality performance show.
From the beginning the band stood out of the usual scope through their extraordinary sound arrangements, through the performance of the Sirens (to which the female vocals turned out in the end), and of course through Lord Athanors charismatic voice.

In 2008 the third album Blood Mystery was produced together with the correspondent music video and the band started to present their first live shows. The bands intention to present a driving live performance, lead to a transition from Industrial-PsyTrance oriented tracks towards Electronic Wave, towards powerful analogue drum lines, layered by Ambient and Ritual elements. This modified approach will certainly make the project also interesting for a broader audience of the Independent scene.

Sound quality, Psycho-Acoustic and Mp3s

GriffonVox employ for their production as well as for life-performance a high quality of sound. Thus, the music contains also psycho-acoustic sounds that have the capacity to reach deeper, more subconscious layers of sense perception. This way, GriffonVox invites the audience to a journey to their selves.
If these acoustic creations finally are being rendered as mp3, all of these get lost and GriffonVox becomes Lo-Fi...., the heart of sound is taken away.

Holistic Environmentalism

For GriffonVox a modern environmental awareness naturally has high significance. The performance project intends to alert the audience and wishes to bring the topic Environmental Awareness, in a modern manner, back to the everyday consciousness. Through images and sounds the audience is intended to become sensibilized to experience themselves again as part of the whole.

Performance Show

GriffonVox is not just another "band on stage". The show presents an epic and hypnotic performance - a composition of dance, drama and vocals. Aloof - sometimes wild, sometimes lascivious, slow and ritualistic - the sirens embed every track in a specially-tailored choreography. Associations to wild banshees, magic rituals, Kabuki theatre and Butoh dance are not brought about by coincidence.
"Griffon and the Sirens" abducting the audience away into a mystical-magical world, skilfully employing Electronic Wave, ambient impacts and rhythms.
Elaborate make-up and costumes as well as lighting effects and creeping fogs are indispensable for the magical atmosphere, completing the menu. GriffonVox presents art on stage, an experience which goes far beyond the understanding of a "normal" gig.

Performers



Mister A (A. von Greifenkeil):
Vocals, Machines, Arrangements, Lyrics.

Since 1997 he realized projects of light, dance, and sound. Instead of becoming an environmentalist or resistance fighter of the external, he already started in his early years by searching for alternatives, which could cause changes to the outside in other, more substantial ways. That way GriffonVox and Greifenkeil were born as a spin-off product of many years of experience with archaic forms of meditation and shamanistic practices. Athanor is a trained druid, and holder of a Pre-Christian, Proto-Celtic tradition. He holds a state certified degree in Naturopathy, and acts as a coach (individual, creative and business level), poet and author.

The Sirens/Sick Sisters:



SSA, SSE, SSC:
Voices, Sounds, Effects, Movements, Assistance