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, GoGoGo Airheart, and The Black Heart Procession. 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 Fell
1 | in between lines | One Day I'll Be On Time |
2 | On Your Way | In A Safe Place |
3 | Twenty Two Fourteen | In A Safe Place |
4 | the mp | One Day I'll Be On Time |
5 | the sailor | One Day I'll Be On Time |
6 | Another Day | In A Safe Place |
7 | hang over | One Day I'll Be On Time |
8 | gust of | One Day I'll Be On Time |
9 | Moss Mountain Town | In A Safe Place |
10 | Over The Pond | In A Safe Place |
11 | Streamside | In A Safe Place |
12 | last time here | One Day I'll Be On Time |
13 | The Audio Pool | One Day I'll Be On Time |
14 | The Outer Banks | In A Safe Place |
15 | Eastern Glow | In A Safe Place |
16 | wet the day | One Day I'll Be On Time |
17 | story board | One Day I'll Be On Time |
18 | Thule | In A Safe Place |
19 | vermillion | One Day I'll Be On Time |
20 | Window | In A Safe Place |