The Album Leaf

Biography

The Album Leaf is the creation of classically trained pianist Jimmy LaValle (San Diego, California, USA). His unusual recording moniker is apparently derived from a Chopin composition. Prior to, and alongside the Album Leaf, serial music-maker LaValle has been involved in GoGoGo Airheart, instrumental rock outfit Tristeza, noise punks the Locusts and ‘epic-core’ atmosphericists Black Heart Procession. His 1999 debut as the Album Leaf, An Orchestrated Rise To Fall, was written, arranged and performed almost exclusively by LaValle. Both this album and the follow-up, One Day I’ll Be On Time, took LaValle’s guitar playing as their primary focus, with other instruments such as bass, drums and violin employed sparingly to help flesh out the Album Leaf’s pretty atmospherica.

LaValle was subsequently invited to record in the Sundlaugin studios, Mosfellsbaer by Sigur Rós, whom he had befriended on the Icelandic...

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