HighLife

Photo: Amanda Raber

Jacob Wick, Jaimie Branch (trumpet/vox), Peter Hanson (saxophone/vox), Owen Stewart-Robertson (guitar/vox) & Marc Riordan, Nick Jenkins (drums/vox)

Formed at the Harold Arts Residency in Ohio, Jason Ajemian pulls all of his previous conceptual musics together under a solid roof with the HighLife.
Ajemian creates scores for the band in the architectural drafting program AutoCAD. First batch titled; Motion Maps and the most recent Jewelry Selection, these scores guide the musicians through spaces and hallways of musical structures. His blueprints dictate the flow and motion of a musical set, opening the performers up to visual and descriptive influences, while leading them through a diverse musical landscape consisting of Ajemian’s orchestrated poems, American folk forms, Native American chants, Canadian sea shanties, Orbison, jazz expressive motion and balladry -- all filtered through the creative/improvised process in a unique communication of the moment.