Torso is Louis Selvitella and Lee Leffler, two members of the Boston music scene who began making new music in 2004. Combining fretless bass and classical guitar with electronic sounds, torso's music incorporates styles as varied as Coltrane era jazz to electronic soul, post punk and more.

Taxi.com, describes Torso's sound as "Super cool music... Downtempo jazz (with a real legitimate jazz flavor and playing) ala Izit meets Miles".

Torso's debut release on the 2headed record label, "percolatin' with lucifer", features seven songs - all of which began life as an improvisational piece captured on a hard drive.

"Preconceived ideas's aren't allowed", says Lee. "We like the challenge of creating music spontaneously".

Torso has already enjoyed airplay on one of the internet's largest lounge and nu jazz radio stations, lounge-radio.com, with self-released tracks. Several tracks also landed in lounge and elctronic top ten categories on broadjam.com.

Louis' and Lee's pre-Torso experience, which includes performing live in large music venues in Boston and New York and recording for independent labels, allows them to record, produce and ultimately support torso's music in live settings.

"Naked Came the She Squid" is the second release by Torso, the Boston duo of bassist Louis Selvitella and guitarist Lee Leffler. It's electronica with a jazz base whose songs are anchored by guitar (often acoustic), bass, and drum samples. The rhythm is largely influenced by broken beat patterns, but generally varied and joined by loops, many being sax or trumpet with a few voice snippets on top, and occasional keyboard flavorings.

There is some nice melodic and funky stuff here - just about everything has a mysterious quality that is hard to pin down but is so appealing...a bit of exotica, Eastern music influence, lounge, and minor keys. It's a late night sort of feel with a lot of bongos and a cool title that's well worth a listen.