Why Trevor makes music:
Trevor Eulau is a composer, guitarist and educator based in Seattle. He got his start as a kid busking at farmer’s markets and filtering through rock and pop groups in the Seattle area. Trevor was quickly drawn to classical music and jazz, and subsequently attended USC Thornton School of Music where he studied with Grammy Award winning composer Andrew Norman, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne, and recently at the University of Washington with jazz virtuosos Cuong Vu (David Bowie, Pat Metheny), Steve Rodby, (Pat Metheny, Fred Simon), and Ted Poor (Bill Frisell, Kurt Rosenwinkel). Trevor has performed with groups at notable venues such as MoPop’s SkyChurch, Neumos, Amazon Corporate Headquarters, The Vera Project, El Corazon, Studio 7 and The Obsidian in Olympia.
Trevor is a recent addition to the jazz fusion group High Pulp. Drawing on bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music, experimental jazz act High Pulp are announcing ‘Pursuit of Ends, their first full-length album with Los Angeles’s ANTI- Records. The frenetic “All Roads Lead To Los Angeles” is the first song from the album they have shared, which hints at the breakbeats of Louis Cole as it reflects the constant barrage of stimuli that define our modern lives.
While the Seattle-based collective is centered around a crew of seven core members, they also make judicious use of a broad network of collaborators on the album, wrangling special guests like sax star Jaleel Shaw (Roy Haynes, Mingus Big Band), harpist Brandee Younger (Ravi Coltrane, The Roots), GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter Theo Coker, and keyboardist Jacob Mann (Rufus Wainwright, Louis Cole) to help stretch the boundaries of their already-expansive sonic universe. The result is a lush, cinematic collection that’s as unpredictable as it is engrossing, an urgent, exhilarating instrumental album that manages to speak to the moment without uttering a single word.
Recent projects also include live collaborations and cowriting with local RnB artist Talaya on her track ‘Illusive’, composition work for dancers Ieva Bračiulytė, and Megan Sellman for their 2021 Flight Deck Studio Residency, and composition work with Nathan Ginter for his absurdist horror film ‘Biting Barbels’.