Description: post-rock, ambient, instrumental, electronic, indie, post rock, alternative, chillout

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 an ocarina in the post-rock instrumental band Tristeza.