Kiss Facility

A London concert by Kiss Facility, the duo of Mayah Alkhateri and Salvador Navarette, with support from Róisín El Cherif at ICA London, presented by Bird on the Wire.

Mayah Alkhateri and Salvador Navarette form Kiss Facility, a duo who have worked across sound, image and performance together since they first met. Their practice is grounded in spiritual inquiry, exploring psychic perception, ritual protection, intimacy and the afterlife as a force shaping what lies ahead. Through symbolism and raw emotion, they examine identity as a space for self-transformation.

Musically, the act sits at the margins of modern shoegaze, with dense guitars and vocals sunk beneath the mix like poetry. They adapt the genre's familiar language but bring in Arabic lyricism, private mythologies and inward worlds that alternative music seldom highlights. Their upcoming album, KHAZNA, has a title meaning safe, vault or treasury, and deals with what is kept hidden. Its themes of love, liberation and lived experience are carried through layered vocals and unexpected sound.

The support act is Róisín El Cherif, and the evening is presented by Bird on the Wire at ICA London, a venue for concerts and shows in the capital. The night suits listeners interested in shoegaze reshaped through spiritual themes and Arabic lyricism.