The Apartment Homes Fake Book by Eron Rauch is a fractured account of love, loss, and photographic memory created during recovery years after the 2008 economic crash. Taking the form of a large-format photocopy manuscript, the disjointed and idiosyncratic mix of personal, found, and urban landscape images waver in a toner-stained haze of instability. Released in July 2015 by Orenda Records, this 92 page, staple-bound 11x17” book is the cumulation of an artistic dialog that with musician and composer Daniel Rosenboom that started with the 2014 album Fire Keeper.

"...This lush and colorful album offers a different perspective on the possibilities for creative music in the 21st century. While many artists seek the cutting edge with almost manic fervor, Trevor finds a grounded way to offer something new. Drawing on his own life experience through music, as well as his own family history, he’s created an album that reads almost like folk music rich with jazz and West African influences through a Zen Buddhist prism. The music is serene yet adventurous, meditative yet dynamic, and tenderly compelling."

Memory is an enigmatic filter. It’s our link to our own personal histories, and yet it’s wildly elastic, bending and stretching with our innermost emotions. To reflect on childhood we recall events, places, people, and our own experiences not as they actually were, but according to the imprint they made on our unconscious – memories of childhood are cartoon-like, warped visions that swell, flex and deflate, like a face drawn on the surface of a balloon. And yet, they make us who we are.

"I do a lot of sketching. Always have... Over the past year or so a new theme emerged in my sketches - my ideas were getting thicker, denser, more complex, more layered, more distorted, perhaps even more angry. But also extremely vivid, strong, alive, vibrant. They were all about 'more is more', so I called it my 'maximalism'..."