The Album Leaf
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The Album Leaf is an American solo musical project founded in San Diego, California in 1998 by Jimmy LaValle. He is known for his use of electronics, synthesizer and Rhodes piano. His performances often feature projected visual art.
History
Inception
The Album Leaf officially began in 1998 as the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, guitarist for San Diego, California-based post-rock instrumental band Tristeza. LaValle has also performed in several other San Diego-area bands, including The Crimson Curse, The Locust, Swing Kids and GoGoGo Airheart.
An Orchestrated Rise to Fall
During downtime in the fall of 1998, LaValle began playing drums for San Diego band GoGoGo Airheart. 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.
The Album
The Album may refer to:
See also
Achozen
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Achozen [pronounced: UH-choh-zen] (occasionally typeset as AcHoZeN) is a project by System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian, Wu-Tang Clan member RZA, Killarmy member Kinetic 9, and Wu-Tang Clan affiliates Reverend William Burke. The group's debut album has been completed and set for release for several years now, and it is unknown when or if the album will be released, considering Odadjian's commitments to System of a Down, who reunited in 2011. In July of 2015, the group released a boombox digital collection of 8 songs recorded over the last few years. A standard album is still in the making, though songs are already available. After both Wu-Tang and System of a Down organized their respective reunions, material was released.
Achozen's music style
The music of Achozen is described by one writer as "space hip hop, rap without a coast or even a planet. Instead, each song revolves around a solar system of feeling. The album explores and exorcises a spectrum of emotions, as each track delves into either pain, ecstasy, hate or hope. Utilizing sitar and violin, Shavo breaks the mold, playing live instruments across the album, as he constructs beats with a cosmic fluidity".
ABBA: The Album
ABBA: The Album is the fifth studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in Scandinavia on 12 December 1977 through Polar Music, but due to the massive pre-orders the UK pressing plants were not able to press sufficient copies before Christmas 1977 and so it was not released in the UK until January 1978. The album was released in conjunction with ABBA: The Movie, with several of the songs featured in the film.
The album contained two UK number-one singles, "Take a Chance on Me" and "The Name of the Game", as well as European hits "Eagle" and "Thank You for the Music".
Overview
The album includes three songs from ABBA's 1977 tour mini-musical The Girl with the Golden Hair. These songs are "Thank You for the Music", "I Wonder (Departure)" and "I'm a Marionette". Altogether the album contained just nine songs—the least of any ABBA album, but were longer in length than previous albums (opening track "Eagle" runs to nearly six minutes).
ABBA: The Album reached No. 1 in many territories. In the UK it debuted at the top and remained there for seven weeks, ending up as the third biggest selling album of the year (behind the movie soundtrack LPs of Saturday Night Fever and Grease). In the US it became their highest charting album, where during 1978 ABBA undertook a big promotional campaign. Due to the Cold War, Western music was actively discouraged throughout Eastern Europe at the time. Despite this, ABBA: The Album sold an unprecedented one million copies in Poland in 1977, exhausting the country's entire allocation of foreign currency. In Russia, only 200,000 copies were permitted to be pressed; however, demand within the USSR indicated they could have sold 40 million copies.
Podcasts:
The Album Leaf
ALBUMS
- Torey's Distraction released: 2012
- A Chorus of Storytellers released: 2010
- Into the Blue Again released: 2006
- In a Safe Place released: 2004
- One Day I’ll Be on Time released: 2001
- An Orchestrated Rise to Fall released: 1999
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Twenty Two Fourteen
by: Album LeafWe were best friends, destined to learn each others lessons
You called with a question and I ignored your message
Tension sets in and I can say that since then
At 10:14 PM I finally regret this.
Cried for your attention.
Blew out your birthday candles.
Threw my toys when I was mad.
The worst way to handle it.
When you told me the dog died.
But I let him out without a leash
And didn't tell you to avoid being hogtied and beat with reeds.
I told you the wrong lies.
Said the truth too often.
Though the other boys were good
I never threw caution.
I locked you out of your bedroom.
And hid the key under the door.
Thought I was smartest guy,
And never really wanted more.
I drew disfigured pictures of you
In odd and screwed up ways.
With the same blue markers on the wall
Where I drew my name.
Cheated in board games.
Never liked to play fair.
Made fun of you at daycare.
And told you I can't Share.
I forgot to get a gift.
Never called on Christmas.
Made jokes at funerals.
Never sweated the little shit.
Tore pages out of your journal.
By the way, I unlocked your journal.
Now there's a bit of an awkward turtle.
Disobeyed the doctors orders.
I punched holes in your walls.
Shattered your painted windows.
Hid in the shower for several hours
Till you made the amends grow.
I walked all over you.
Told you that you weren't pretty.
Of course, I'll be damned if I ordered you
To stand where you were sitting.
I peer pressured you,
Even though I wasn't your peer.
Pulled down your curtains
So respect would disappear.
Said I was going one way
But then I'd go another.
Turned my back on you when you
Acted like my own mother.
Promised I'd quit smoking.
You asked me to quit joking.
Told you you were adopted
You cried, and told me to stop it.
I made your computer crash.
Deleted your photographs.
Scratched all your records
Never paid you back for the load of cash.
I took off without you.
Constantly pushed you away.
Kept secrets to myself,
But then I'd ask you to stay
I put As on the back of your shirt
So you can see where it actually hurts.
Blamed you for attacking me first.
Told you that you're asking for worse
Things to come.
I bleed your blood
I need your love.
I keyed your truck.
Wasn't afraid to fight back.
Never got on the right track.
Turned your eyes black
When I gave you a hard slap.
I dragged your ass on the carpet
And gave you bad rug-burn.
Showed the skies would darken when I
Said I don't love her.
We were best friends, destined to learn each others lessons.
You called with a question and I ignored your message
Tension sets in and I can say that since then
At 10:14 PM I finally regret this.
I decided to steal your money.
Gamble it all away for good.
Then I had you bail me out.
Just because I knew that you could.
Vandalized your village.
Tantalized you and pillaged.
Slowly ripped out your wallpaper.
And Turned the water to spillage.
Smashed your mirrors in.
Then I Crashed your American
Car, that I borrowed without asking
For your parenting.
Cut off your hair while you slept
Slashed your clothes into nets.
Sold your house and your belongings
Till you had nothing left.
Everything was your fault.
Cause I didn't carry a heart.
Then you took the blame
I didn't know where to start.
Constantly called you stupid.
Even though you were always smart.
Stopped calling you by your name.
We were only falling apart.
I ignored you on one condition.
To further my own position.
Avoided eye contact to put
You in a cold submission.
I tripped you until you fell.
Bruised your arms and legs.
Held you down and tied you up
And made you fall again.
I cut off your air supply
Kept you underwater.
Held you back, and weighed you down
So now the space is larger
I spit in your face and called you a whore.
Chose to hang out with a girl
Instead of you, so I guess you have the right to say that now it's war.
Tortured you with a lighter.
Pushed you off the roof
I stabbed you with a box-cutter.
Buried you with the truth.
Pretended it never happened.
Wiped my hands clean.
Gave it the cold shoulder
Cause I don't owe a damn thing.
Stuck to my resolutions.
Smiled everyday.
Read the paper in the morning
Survived in many ways.
Stole your identity,
And achieved serenity.
I left the rest of me
Deep inside your memory.
Started a new life,
And forgot what you meant to me.