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The Album Leaf

The new Album Leaf album A Chorus of Storytellers, marks the first decade for the group led by Jimmy LaValle. In those 10 years, LaValle has gone from initial improvised home recordings to five complete studio albums, from opening slots to leading an incredible world-touring band to the stage at Red Rocks, headlining festivals and performing at the Hollywood Bowl with the Incredible String Band. LaValle’s well-earned reputation as a crafter of impeccable sonic imagery even led to a critically-acclaimed show at the Seattle International Film Festival where The Album Leaf performed a live score for the 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

A Chorus of Storytellers is the perfect showcase for LaValle's skill as a recording artist. The album's 11 tracks are crisp, clean, flowing and beautifully complex. The album does something even bolder than his previous albums; LaValle's distinctive, dreamy, cinematic soundscapes are often jarred out of reverie, particularly on ‘We Are’: with its skidding beat moving under LaValle's bounding Moog line and insistent vocals, it’s  the closest thing to a pop song The Album Leaf has ever produced. 

A Chorus of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek Studio just outside of Seattle. It was mixed in the decidedly warmer month of June in Reykjavik, Iceland by Birgir Birgisson (of Sigur Ros). Those paying attention will notice that this is nearly the same way their last album Into the Blue Again (2006) was recorded. There is, however, one fundamental difference between this and every other album The Album Leaf has ever recorded. For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded with his entire touring band.

In the past, almost every instrument was performed by LaValle. This time the whole band - multi-instrumentalist Matthew Resovich, guitarist Drew Andrews, drummer Timothy Reece, bassist Luis Hermosillo, an Icelandic horn section and a few symphony players were invited to participate allowing Lavelle to act more like a conductor. The result? A feeling of unity and shared purpose, as well as an expanded sonic breadth which is expressed in the album title. "I wanted to name it according to what happened with the whole process," he explains. "It took two-and-a-half, close to three years to make. There were so many different things that went into it and there’s a lot of storytelling behind it."

LaValle has been able to craft an album that ventures into new, at times beat-intensive, territory. Chillingly delicate and more pop-based than ever before, ‘In a Safe Place’ masterfully negotiates the spaces between minimal electronic music and melancholy instrumental neo-rock. The inclusion of vocals from The Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins, Sigur Ros’ Jon Thor Birgisson, and LaValle himself is one of the striking results from this newly collaborative process. “If I wasn’t in that environment, I sure wouldn’t have sung,” he marvels. We’re glad he did, and you will be, too.

Looking back on the past decade, LaValle recognizes his distance from the bedroom recordings of his early days. "If I were making the same records now that I was making ten years ago, then I'd obviously not be doing something right," he asserts. "But I think back over the work and everything I've done over the ten years and it feels pretty good. I'm still doing it, and I'm making a living at it. It's cool to think of it in that way; I went for it and worked for it and here I am."

A Chorus of Storytellers -  their best record yet – is released on February 1st 2010 via Sub Pop