Blending avant-garde sensibilities with groove-driven electric jazz, guitarist John Bruschini leads a New York quintet through compositions that shift from soulful ballads to funk-infused energy, balancing expressive lyricism and dynamic interplay with a flexible ensemble that bridges fusion, improvisation, and melodic depth.

Solo guitarist John Bruschini channels lessons from his tenure with Cecil Taylor into a series of sculptural improvisations that deconstruct and reconstruct melodic and harmonic ideas, presenting a reflective and adventurous exploration of the guitar's expressive possibilities shaped by an avant-garde lineage.

Recorded solo at Bruschini's Bru Note Studio in NYC (Jan-Feb 2008), this intimate set invites the listener into a "raw state" process of real-time composition, where construction/deconstruction cycles steer the guitar from groove and grit into textural free improv, revealing fresh techniques as motifs mutate, collapse, and re-form.