Loa Loa Release Debut Single ‘Give Me A Place’
Loiasis begins quietly, sometimes manifesting as itchy swellings on the body. The inflammation is thought to be the body’s reaction to adult worms traveling under the skin. However, most show no symptoms at all, despite the quiet company of Loa Loa. The worm can live undetected for years, its presence betrayed only when it surfaces, ghostlike, visibly wriggling under the skin or the whites of the eyes.
There is much to be drawn from disease, which so often mirrors the human experience of love. Some lovers are parasitic, actively siphoning energy and resources undetected. Other lovers – often forgotten – lie dormant, coiled softly in the dark chambers of memory, waiting for a song to awaken and travel once more across the tender surface of the heart. Perhaps you are the fortunate reservoir of some symptomless, benign coexistence. Or, suppose you are the vector of some terminal contagion. We casually call it “lovesickness” as if the word were a metaphor and not a diagnosis. But love is an infection which spares no one.
Loa loa is a filarial nematode that causes loiasis. Loa Loa is also a four-piece making noise at the bottom of the world. Give Me A Place emerged from a dream state rumination on the pandemic of love!
The track was recorded, produced and engineered by Loa Loa, in their personal studio, and was Mixed and Mastered by Jack Endino in Seattle. The single cover was a piece crafted by Constance Rogal.
