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THE ALBUM LEAF ANNOUNCES NEW ATMOSPHERIC AMBIENT LP ROTATIONS TO BE RELEASED APRIL 11th
SHARES NEW SINGLE “CAROUSEL” FEAT. SIX MISSING
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February 7, 2025 – Today, The Album Leaf announced he will release a new ambient LP, Rotations, on April 11, 2025. The record is a mediative experiment into atmospheric sound. Creator Jimmy LaValle explains, “This collection of music is a true reflection of my creative process—rooted in sound exploration, experimentation, and spontaneous response. Each track captures a moment of creative discovery, free from the pressure of achieving a polished result. Throughout my career, I’ve often placed significant weight on what an album should be. With this release, I’ve let go of those expectations to share a body of work that feels genuine and authentic.” It will include his new single, “Carousel,” which was released today and is a collaboration with Austin-based ambient composer and producer, Six Missing.
LISTEN + SHARE “CAROUSEL” FEAT. SIX MISSING https://thealbumleaf.ffm.to/carousel
The prolific Los Angeles-based electronic artist The Album Leaf has had a fruitful few years. He released his acclaimed 2023 full-length album, Future Falling, the 2024 EP, Blast, featuring sax player Aaron D4VD (Anderson Paak., Tyler The Creator, Herbie Hancock), a series of remixes by esteemed artists like Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Dustin O’Halloran, Boom Bip, and Balmorhea, written several scores, including one for the film Things Will Be Different (SXSW 2024 premiere) and Touch Me that just was applauded at Sundance. He also was featured on several charity compilations for the Los Angeles fires, including ambient compilation FOR LA, curated by Hollie Kenniff, and indie rock compilation Love Los Angeles, which includes artists like Ducks LTD, Shannon Lay, Kevin Devine.
Stay tuned for more to come from The Album Leaf.
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ABOUT THE ALBUM LEAF: The Album Leaf has been steadily making his mark as a soft-spoken innovator since 1999. Now based in LA, Jimmy LaValle started out in the San Diego music scene creating vivid, rhythmic, soaring instrumentals centered around the Rhodes piano. With over two decades of acclaimed releases (for Sub Pop, City Slang, and others), countless film scores, and numerous collaborations with artists and brands, he has become a touchstone for the next generation’s wave of melodic and meditative electro-organic music.
A prolific musician, he has also composed music for film and television, scoring over 20 projects, including award-winning films, the Calm App, Netflix shows, and commercials for companies like Nike and Google. For the past seven years, the prolific Jimmy LaValle put his primary focus on the tight deadlines that came with scoring films and collaborations allowing the loose concept of the “next record” to stretch on with over two hundred demos written and dozens of album ideas before the ten final tracks that comprise, FUTURE FALLING, finally stood out to him. A fluid, cohesive, and definitive set, the 2023 record exhibits LaValle as emblematically inquisitive and renewed by outside perspectives.
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