Paris-based duo Kiss Facility can trace their origins to a voice note. Emirati-Egyptian singer-songwriter Mayah Alkhateri sent Salvador Navarrete — better known as Sega Bodega — a short recording of her singing in Arabic. From here, a creative collaboration was born with a loose rule: the pair would record music together, but the lyrics would always be sung in Alkhateri’s original language.
KHAZNA (2026) — Arabic for “treasure” or “vault” — is Kiss Facility’s debut full-length, released on Navarrete’s own label,
@ambientweets . If Arabic shoegaze is a pithy tag that follows this project, it can’t be said to truly summarise it: where shoegaze is often about sounds collapsing into a single wall, Alkhateri’s voice stands strikingly apart from the haze alongside shades of downtempo.
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