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The Album Leaf
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San Diego, United States (1998 – present)
The Album Leaf officially began in 1998 as the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, guitarist for San Diego, California-based post-rock band Tristeza. LaValle has also performed in several other San Diego-area bands, including Swing Kids, The Locust, and GoGoGo Airheart.
An Orchestrated Rise to Fall:
Jimmy LaValle had been playing guitar in the post-rock instrumental band Tristeza. Being a multi-instrumentalist, during downtime in the fall of 1998, he began playing drums for San Diego band GoGoGo Airheart. The singer and guitarist for the group, Mike Vermillion (which later inspired the song name “Vermillion” on One Day I’ll Be on Time) recorded LaValle doing improvised material playing to a vintage roland drum machine on a Rhodes Piano that would become his first full-length album, the 10-track An Orchestrated Rise to Fall. Benjamin White of GoGoGo Airheart and Vermillion both supplied added improvisation with synthesizers and vocals to these recordings.
Before Tristeza released Spine and Sensory on Makoto records in 1998, the band was talking with a handful of different indie record labels. One of the record labels was “The Music Fellowship” out of Salt Lake City, Utah. LaValle asked them if they would be interested in releasing his solo material. They accepted, and An Orchestrated Rise to Fall saw release in 1999 on CD. Later in the year, Tristeza and The Album Leaf both signed with newly started Tigerstyle Records out of New York City.
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giopeano wrote:
Li adoro...
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musiq_zoom wrote:
What a sweet lullaby
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Fuchikoma9000 wrote:
It's September Song time.
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maxitj wrote:
They are so great here http://mixmusique.com/Search/?bg=The+Album+Leaf
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PaquiTOT wrote:
Sorry for the shameless promotion, but if you like TAL maybe you'll like Mountaintops In Caves :)
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zeppoleon wrote:
pure excellence
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Chris402 wrote:
grande banda.
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LeFlo22 wrote:
great
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OChrisO wrote:
yay, check out this http://postrockcommunity.blogspot.com/2008/06/gordons-tsunami-week-place-for-nowhere.html
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mlott wrote:
love this
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sabrage wrote:
zzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Remifasol wrote:
http://www.myspace.com/shapesandcolorsambient
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sroons wrote:
enileg: he's done a lot of recording in iceland, even though he's not icelandic
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enileg wrote:
why were they tagged 'Icelandic' ftw.
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PiNoRo wrote:
which singer do people prefer for this music?
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X-nardra wrote:
i love your new album
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thn267 wrote:
deeperthewound: he recorded it in their swimming pool studio thing and jonsi sings/plays on a couple of the tracks
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frostcj wrote:
Aww, it's like marmite on toast or flying over cliffs looking at puffins, awesome.
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deeperthewound wrote:
I'm pretty sure he recorded "In A Safe Place" with Sigur Ros. I'm almost positive he did.
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muteoff wrote:
Red-Eye is such a great track.
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