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The Album Leaf

The Recording Leaf began because the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, a San Diego-based songwriter who started recording solo materials twelve months after forming the post-rock music group Tristeza. Inspired by way of a number of styles — traditional, jazz, and post-rock included in this — LaValle built his own …

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Tristeza

Known as very much for their constant touring as their prolific result, San Diego’s instrumental rock quintet Tristeza shaped in 1997. Guitarists Jimmy LaValle and Christopher Sprague, keyboardist Stephen Swesey, bassist Luis Hermosillo, and drummer Jimmy Lehner emerged jointly after playing in rings just like the Locust, Crimson Curse, Golf …

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