Enjoy the brilliant piece “By Passing Upon” with us!

Happy St Patricks Day! Celebrate with your Potassium Pals :)

Twilight Choir is:

Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Garrett Frees, Caroline Jesalva, Tyler Wagner, Erez Dessel

Bearduo is back for the first time in 2026. Come check out some of our new sounds at Stola Contemporary’s 2 year anniversary celebration! BYOB and you can reserve a spot here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-time-out-wsg-bearduo-registration-1979556140705?aff=oddtdtcreator

I will be playing solo saxophone as part of the Tangible Books Music series! Come check out my solo explorations!

BananaAcid back for your monthly Potassium needs.

Now we read from the Book of Peel Proverb 16:168 34-38

Bananas are hot and bananas are cold but of course Bananas are quite cool.

When you freeze a banana, do not expect a transformation because no matter the temperature, a Banana keeps its structural integrity.

Bananas can be a surface for a number of sweet coatings like Chocolate, Caramel, Ice Cream and more. Importantly though, even if life blends or slices or coats a Banana, it is still a Banana! We must remember this when we feel the blades of life come for our mushy insides.

BananaAcid is a Chicago based music collective consisting of Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, Tyler Wagner

Hitting it hard with Erez Dessel’s Groove/Dance Band TREYF.

Come hang and dance with us. Sure to be not Kosher!

Bearduo is back from our post-album hibernation! Come check us out at Comfort Station!

Bearduo is:

Aaron Kaufman-Levine and Garrett Frees on Saxophones.

Join us at the Music in the Garden Festival Season 4 at Elastic Arts Foundation!

Music in the Garden presents a 2-day music festival with Chicago-based improvisers and creative musicians, featuring a light and projection installation by Ruby Que.

Come enjoy a night or two of music, art and community.

November 1st

7pm Emily Rach Beisel

8pm Microplastique
Artist: Adam Shead, Ben Zucker, Molly Jones, Josh Harlow

9pm Purikoko
Artist: Ariel Vera, Alex Yoo

Join us at the Music in the Garden Festival Season 4 at Elastic Arts Foundation!

Music in the Garden presents a 2-day music festival with Chicago-based improvisers and creative musicians, featuring a light and projection installation by Ruby Que.

Come enjoy a night or two of music, art and community.

November 2nd

7pm Sandpusher
Artist: Nick Meryhew, Sam Scranton, Andrew Tham

8pm Mabel Kwan

9pm BananaAcid
Artist: Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, Tyler Wagner

Join us for a screening of the 1926 Japanese silent experimental horror film A Page of Madness, featuring a live original score by Chicago-based group BananaAcid. You won’t want to miss BananaAcid, featuring piano, electronics, saxophones, toy whistles, strings, and voice, live alongside the silent, surreal and visually arresting film that descends into madness.

BananaAcid is Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, and Tyler Wagner.

BananaAcid is an improvising ensemble made up of Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, and Tyler Wagner. Banana Acid is committed to the practice of spontaneous composition, influenced and shaped by their studies at New England Conservatory of Music. Their unique sonic language synthesizes deep individual studies of various music traditions, including early jazz, free jazz, classical, electro-acoustic, and folk music. Their recording and performance techniques draw on modernist and postmodernist cultural movements, including surrealism and deconstructivism. A creative and adventurous force in the world of the avant-garde, their sound is uncompromising, and their musical approach pushes at the boundaries of free jazz.

AKL Quartet is back! This time at the Chicago Jazz Fest. Tell your friends, your enemies, your neighbors, go shout it from the rooftops and the basements and everywhere in between!

Aaron Kaufman-Levine Quartet (AKL Quartet) features pianist Erez Dessel, Bassist Leo Buczkowski and Drummer Frank Morrison.

The group plays all original music by Aaron that uses his compositional language alongside improvisational elements to create dense, exploratory music often featuring many different grooves and styles. The group will often jump between forms or sections and sometimes play multiple songs or sections at a time. The impetus of the group is freedom, clarity, decisiveness, trust and malleability.

BananaAcid re-emerges to the public eye at Narloch Studios.

BananaAcid is:

Aaron Kaufman-Levine, Caroline Jesalva, Erez Dessel, Garrett Frees, Tyler Wagner

Now your monthly scripture:

Proverb 28:18-5-33

Splits can be scary and Knives can be deadly and Peels can expose your soft, sweet insides but…

Splits can be yummy and sweet and feature nuts and cherries and fudge and Knives can be beautiful and reflective and precise and are essential to lining up your slices to make an instagram worthy celebration and Peels are stringent and fibrous and not always needed to get the nutrients you desire…

Joe Morris comes to Chicago to lead one of his groups “Counter Spectacle.” He has made 3 different sets of music (1 per night) that we will be playing at various spots around Chicago with slightly different personnel each night. Night 3 is at The Hungry Brain!

Joe was one of my main teachers and mentors at NEC and we have stayed in touch post grad. I am so excited that Garrett and I could bring him out here to make music together in the real world YAY!

Joe Morris comes to Chicago to lead one of his groups “Counter Spectacle.” He has made 3 different sets of music (1 per night) that we will be playing at various spots around Chicago with slightly different personnel each night. Night 2 is at Marmalade!

Joe was one of my main teachers and mentors at NEC and we have stayed in touch post grad. I am so excited that Garrett and I could bring him out here to make music together in the real world YAY!

Joe Morris comes to Chicago to lead one of his groups “Counter Spectacle.” He has made 3 different sets of music (1 per night) that we will be playing at various spots around Chicago with slightly different personnel each night. Night 1 is at Elastic Arts!

Joe was one of my main teachers and mentors at NEC and we have stayed in touch post grad. I am so excited that Garrett and I could bring him out here to make music together in the real world YAY!

The Long Awaited debut album of Bearduo titled “Bearduo” is HERE! Come party with us at BimBom Studios and be ready to make some NOISE.

Get your tickets HERE: https://www.midnight-tea.com/

Preorder the album HERE: https://bananaacid.bandcamp.com/album/unio-mystica

Erez and I take a drive up North to Jazz Gallery in Milwaukee.

With Erez Dessel 4 playing some great music! FREE Show.