The Album Leaf "Into the Blue Again" LP Sub Pop (US)

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A1The Light Effects [Space Echo] – Electric Piano [Rhodes], Bass, Organ, Synthesizer [Voyager And Synthesizers] – Violin –  4:29A2Always For You Lyrics By – , Vocals, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Guitar, Synth [Bass], Bass Guitar, Synthesizer, Organ, Drums, Drum Programming –  5:07A3Shine Backing Vocals – Drum Programming – Electric Piano [Rhodes], Keyboards, Synthesizer, Bass Guitar, Glockenspiel, Drums, Drum Programming – Violin –  5:53A4Writings On The Wall Violin – Vocals, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Effects [Murf], Synthesizer, Bass Guitar, Drums, Lyrics By –  4:55A5Red-Eye Drum Programming – Electric Piano [Rhodes], Grand Piano, Effects [Murf], Synthesizer, Synth [Bass], Drum Programming – Violin –  7:01B6See In You Electric Piano [Rhodes], Organ, Synthesizer, Drum Programming – Guitar –  4:37B7Into The Sea Electric Piano [Rhodes], Effects [Murf], Synth [Bass], Bass Guitar, Drums, Drum Programming – Guitar – Violin –  4:31B8Wherever I Go Backing Vocals – Guitar – Lyrics By – , Violin – Vocals, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Bass, Drums –  4:38B9Wishful Thinking Effects [Space Echo] – Grand Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Glockenspiel – Violin –  5:32B10Broken Arrow Electric Piano [Rhodes], Organ, Synthesizer, Synth [Bass], Drum Programming [Additional], Effects [Cricket Sounds] – Synth [Cowbell], Drum Programming – Violin –  5:50

The Album Leaf is an American musical project founded in , in and centered on Jimmy LaValle. It is part of the genre and uses a variety of instruments and electronic equipment to achieve a mellow, sometimes ambient sound.

History Inception

The Album Leaf officially began in 1998 as the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, for -based instrumental band . LaValle has also performed in several other San Diego-area bands, including , , and .

An Orchestrated Rise to Fall

During downtime in the fall of 1998, LaValle began playing drums for San Diego band . Their singer and guitarist, Mike Vermillion (who later inspired the song name "Vermillion" on One Day I'll Be on Time), recorded LaValle doing improvised material on a Rhodes Piano to a vintage Roland drum machine. This would become his first full-length album, the 10-track An Orchestrated Rise to Fall. Benjamin White of GoGoGo Airheart and Vermillion supplied synthesizers and vocals to these recordings.

Before Tristeza released 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 . 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 . A&R rep for the Tigerstyle, Mike Treff, had previously operated his own record label named . Tigerstyle wanted to release the version of An Orchestrated Rise to Fall. Since it would be one of the first Tigerstyle releases, but limited to Vinyl, Mike opted to make it Linkwork Record's last release instead.

LaValle played his first official Album Leaf show at the in the winter of 1999. Band members for this show consisted of , Jimmy Lehner (of Tristeza), Leilani Clark (of local San Diego band, "the Straight A's" also with LaValle), Benjamin White (of GoGoGo Airheart), and John Pham.

One Day I'll Be on Time

Soon after signing with Tigerstyle Records, LaValle received his first recording advance. He used this money to buy his first computer, and purchase equipment for a home recording studio. He did his first recordings and those songs were released as a 4 song EP entitled In An Off White Room on Troubleman Records Unlimited. The title for the EP was named after the color of his home studio, which was in his living room. During time off from Tristeza's tour promoting Dream Signals in Full Circles in 2000, he began writing "".

The Album Leaf performed their second show during Tristeza's 2000 spring tour, at in Austin, Texas. The show was at Club Deville, at a day party for online distributor Insound.com. The line-up consisted of Lavalle, Leilani Clark on guitar and keyboards, Tana Helean on keyboards, Susanna Waiche on bass and Jay Hough (of GoGoGoAirheart) on Drums. They shared the stage with Tristeza and . This lineup also did a 4 week U.S. tour in the summer of 2000 with Andy Robillard (also of GoGoGo Airheart) replacing Hough on Drums.

After the summer tour, LaValle took a full time job in San Diego at newly started music house "Singing Serpent", producing for television commercials. This also gave him access to a full service . LaValle used this studio to re-record the material he had written for One Day I'll be On Time. recorded the track "Storyboard" and can be heard in the beginning of the song discussing Lavalle's guitar tone. Jason Soares of San Diego band provided drum programming for "Vermillion". Tristeza band-mate Christopher Sprague played guitar on "In Between Lines" and designed the album art. After completing this record, LaValle left Singing Serpent, saying, "Making jingles was killing my creativity!"

One Day I'll Be on Time saw worldwide release in early 2001. of Icelandic band, , picked up the record at a record store in , , and asked LaValle to support their upcoming U.S. tour. This put The Album Leaf in front of new audiences and helped it gain popularity. The line-up here consisted of LaValle, Luis Hermosillo (of Tristeza) on bass, Nathan Delffs on keyboards and guitar, Eric Hinjosa on keyboards and Andy Robillard still on drums. This line-up also toured the U.S. during December 2001 and Summer 2002 without Hinojosa.

During this time LaValle wrote two songs, "Hungry for a Holiday" and "Bad Blood", for of to sing on, and another two songs, "Call in Blue' and "Reso" (after future violinist, Matt Resovich), for of which began a series of 7" singles for ' "Collaboration Series". This series is limited to 1000 copies and is only available to subscribers. The Her Space Holiday collaboration would not be released until 2003.

In January 2003, The Album Leaf toured Japan for the second time. The first time was an opening slot for LaValle's band, Tristeza, in spring of 2002 where he performed with fellow band members Luis Hermosillo and Eric Hinojosa. This was a headlining tour with fellow San Diego band, Ilya supporting. LaValle enlisted Duane Pitre, Matthew Baker and Hank Morton of Ilya to back him along with Robillard on drums.

Immediately following this tour, LaValle was offered to support ' European tour. This tour he performed solo and started incorporating electronic beats and loop pedals into his live show in order to perform his songs as a one man band. Later during this tour, , and María Huld Markan of and respectively, began to join LaValle on stage performing on a couple of songs during his half-hour performance slot.

Upon returning home, he had put together another line-up for supporting the U.S. portion of ' tour. This line-up was Hermosillo, Delffs with Tim Reece now on drums. , and María Huld Markan would still join them on stage. This tour saw the Album Leaf playing at such as in New York City, gaining even more popularity for the band.

After these tours, LaValle decided to leave and focus on the Album Leaf full time.

A Lifetime or More and the Seal Beach EP

During the following months of 2003, LaValle began recording again. He recorded 3 tracks for a split EP with New York City's, for the called A Lifetime or More. Drew Andrews provided guitar for the track "Another Day". During May 2003, with his new addition of electronic beats, he recorded 5 songs released as the "Seal Beach EP" for Spanish record label Acuarela Discos.

In August 2003, The Album Leaf headlined a tour of the U.S. with fellow San Diego band, Ilya. This tour introduced the Album Leaf's use of live visual projection art by Andrew Pates and the line-up went down to just LaValle and Drew Andrews on keyboards and guitar with them incorporating laptops and Pates projecting visuals onto a backdrop of the stage. The line-up was becoming more permanent.

Following this tour, LaValle traveled to Iceland to begin recording his third full length. During the European and U.S. tours. LaValle received an invite from to record in their Icelandic studio. During these recording sessions the Album Leaf performed 2 shows in Iceland, one being a part of the music festival with LaValle being backed by , and María Huld Markan of and with Sindri Mar Finnbogason playing bass.

In December 2003, The Album Leaf opened for on their U.S. tour. This line-up consisted of Matt Resovich on violin, Andrew Kinney (of ) and Sean Ripple (of ) with Pates doing live projections.

In a Safe Place

In January 2004, LaValle signed with Seattle based record label, and based European label . LaValle completed in February 2004. , , and (most of the members of ), María Huld Markan (of ), Gyða Valtýsdóttir (formally of ), Pall Jenkins and Matt Resovich (of ) all contributed to the record with , engineering at Sigur Rós’ Sundlaugin studio.

In a Safe Place was released on June 22, 2004. The Album Leaf played a record release show at in San Diego with its current line-up of Matt Resovich on , keyboards, , guitar, and vocals, Drew Andrews on guitar, keyboards, and vocals, Tim Reece on drums and keyboards with Andrew Pates projecting live visuals. Following the release, the Album Leaf toured for a year with little time off performing in the U.S., Europe, Taiwan, and Japan. During this time, the Album Leaf self released the Red Tour EP with 5 tracks. This was to showcase the band as individuals and each member (With the exception of Reece) providing their own song, the cd is also enhanced with a tour video made by Andrew Pates. The EP also featured a live recording of "Micro Melodies" a song that only appeared on the soundtrack for the film , a documentary about , the inventor of the . The track "Over the Pond" is also used in the film (L'Amico di Famiglia) by .

This record saw more commercial success and popularity establishing LaValle's The Album Leaf on the map and playing to bigger audiences.. Many of the tracks from In a Safe Place were used in the soundtracks for television shows such as and .

Following the extensive touring, LaValle re-joined filling in on guitar for 2 shows in and in place of Alison Ables, the replacement to the band for himself. When he returned, LaValle began writing his next full length.

In December 2005, LaValle traveled to to Bearcreek Recording Studio to begin tracking the record. After tracking, he then traveled back to Sigur Rós’ Sundlaugin studio to mix the record with the help of Brigir Jon Birgisson and Joshua Eustis (of ).

Into the Blue Again

On September 12, 2006, was released on in North America. The album saw an earlier release in on September 8, 2006 and throughout the rest of on September 11, 2006 courtesy of . Into the Blue Again sees a return to The Album Leaf’s conception and LaValle handling virtually all instrumental duties. LaValle’s few collaborators on Into the Blue Again are of , who aided additional drum programming and engineering on choice songs, ’s Pall Jenkins adding vocal harmonies on "Wherever I Go," violinist Matt Resovich (who performs with The Album Leaf live, and also played on In a Safe Place), Drew Andrews adding additional guitar work on select songs (Drew also performs with The Album Leaf live). In support of the album, the band toured extensively through the United States, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Taiwan. supported most all of the band's US dates.

The first track 'The Light' was most recently used in advertisements for Channel 4's series of programmes 'Disarming Britain'.

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