Album Release Party @ Plush June 8th

Review of our first album by Fuse magazine

Upon the eve of releasing our second album, we were happy to read the positive review by the tribal bellydance magazine Fuse of our first album, here it is:

APRIL 5, 2013 · 11:28 PM
Final Veil by Final Veil
Review by Teresa Fisher

Final Veil’s debut self-titled album captivates listeners’ right from the first song. At first listen, the band Enigma came to mind, as I found that I was tapping my toes to the beats but was also brought to a calm state of mind. Final Veil’s first album is one that has something for all dancers as it mixes traditional Egyptian rhythms with electronic beats, house, trip hop, drum and bass as well as vocals. This album transports the listener into a dreamy dance state of mind. Intro, the album’s first track starts off with mid-tempo drumming and distinct zagareets that can be heard in the background. Intro sets the stage for what is to come. Tracks like Just a Memory, Mission Over, Habibi Ya Ayni and In the Twilight hold steady with Middle Eastern influences while tracks like From the Other Side, Pied Piper, Awakening, and Taken lend influences from both house music and electronica. Cora Camille, Final Veil’s founder, was so inspired by the beauty and powers that Egyptian music has, it lead her to learn to play Middle Eastern music. This brought her to England and musician/producer Hossam Ramzy. When Camille returned to home to the States, she put together Final Veil. The album was released in 2010 and is available on iTunes, and Amazon. www.finalveil.com

Final Veil's Album Release Party at Plush in St. Louis on Saturday, June 8

Join us for Final Veil's Album Release Show at Plush on Saturday, June 8th! Join this event on facebook to get updates as we get them, we have Raw Earth opening for us and we will be performing with over 20 soloist and bellydance troupes from Chicago, Kansas City, Bloomington, and St. Louis! We will play our new album in its entirety for the first time for a live audience!

March shows and beyond

Hello all! Is everyone else ready for spring as much as me? We have some gigs coming up we wanted to share with you all and hope you get a chance to come out and shimmy off some of this winter blues with us! :) This coming Friday, March 8 we will be playing at the kick-off event for a bellydance and world music fest. Details are below. Also we will have tickets there that night for sale for anyone that is interested in getting a discount price on entry to a St. Patrick's Day rock show that we will be playing at Pop's on the following weekend. **Fri March 8: Final Veil at Way Out Club, 8PM, ANGELS AND ABSINTHE SPEAKEASY PARTY & COMMUNITY GATHERING, $5 (cash at the door) AT The Way Out Club, 2525 SOUTH JEFFERSON, ST. LOUIS, MO 63118 **Saturday, March 16, EARLY ALL AGES SHOW! 6pm: Voodoo Queen's ROCK THE IRISH SHOW ($8 tickets from us or $10 at door, message me and I will get you a discount ticket) Final Veil, SYNAPSIS from Chicago, Hero for a Day, Divide the Empire, and Amorath Pops Nightclub, 1403 Mississippi Ave., Sauget, IL Also coming up: Cora Camille and World Beat dance club Cinco de Mayo show at OZ Nightclub on Sat May 4, 11pm ****Final Veil Album Release Show on Saturday, June 8, 8pm at Plush*****

Shows in March

I don't know about you but we are ready for the end to snow and for spring to begin! Nothing better to beat the blues than music and dance! Next weekend on Friday, March 8 we will be playing at the speakeasy party at The Way Out Club as the kick-off event for the Angels and Absynthe gothic bellydance festival hosted by Ami Amore and Exotic Rhythms bellydance! Our set starts at 9pm and we will be joined by an amazing line up of bellydancers. The following weekend we will be doing a completely different kind of show with several cutting edge rock bands at Pops in Sauget, IL. Tandava Tribal, Ki and Studio L dancers will be performing with us for this show! We still have some discount tickets left for the Pops show, email us at finalveil@gmail.com and we can get you one, or ask me at the Way Out Club show about these discount tix ($8 through us, will be $10 at door). This will be one of those rare all ages events and will start early, 6pm doors and 6:30 show!

Farewell to 2012 show!

Please come be merry with us at our last show of 2012 at The Tap Room! This will be a free show and the openers will be our world beat friends Raw Earth along with bellydancers from Aalim Dance Company! We will be playing a lot of the tracks from our next album that we are looking forward to releasing in early 2013 and we will have a special surprise holiday bonus track for you only to be played at this show! See you there! Final Veil's Farewell to 2012 Show will be on Saturday, December 1 and will go from 9pm to midnight at The Tap Room (downtown) in the downstairs bar, located at 2100 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO, 63103 USA

Final Veil's Drummer Goes to Band Camp!

This summer I had the pleasure of spending two weeks studying under the master doumbec artist Raquy Danzinger. The retreats were located in beautiful upstate New York. The first week was a doumbec teacher retreat, with the final exam being the creation and performance of an original three-part group piece that utilized both Arabic and Turkish drumming techniques. The second week was a boot camp for Turkish split finger training. Sound worse then it was and I had a great time basking in the glow of Doumbec Geeky Goodness! ---Graybeard