the cut of your jib

a nice noise is the result of a meeting between two of the most interesting forces in Italian alternative music: Adele Altro (Any Other) and She's Analog, an avant-jazz trio featuring Stefano Calderano, Giovanni Iacovella and Luca Sguera.

Far from being a simple occasional collaboration, the quartet immediately reveals itself as a cohesive and egalitarian creative organism, capable of transforming the stage into a space of continuous composition — somewhere between writing and improvisation — where melodic tension, timbral exploration and expressive freedom coexist.

Listening to a nice noise feels like moving through a large apartment made up of different and unpredictable rooms with undefined walls where chamber pop, electronics, contemporary jazz and post-rock coexist. Adele's intimate and refined songwriting intertwines with complex instrumental architectures, analogue synthesizers, saturated guitars, prepared drums and electronic beats, creating a dynamic balance between song form and experimentation without losing its emotional core.

This “spatial” journey is also, perhaps even more so, a “temporal” one: a passage from one state to another, a kind of transformation:

<< “I like the cut of your jib” is an expression from 18th-century nautical jargon. It means: I like the cut, the shape of your sails — something sailors used to identify potential friends or enemies while at sea. A first impression, something to trust, a feeling, ultimately, felt on the skin, from a distance. When your eyes encounter something unfamiliar, you stop and linger, drawn in by something: a small gesture, a colour, a sensation, a smell.

And you move towards it: a moment charged with uncertainty, but without the fear of “what will it be?”, certain that you have sensed something, eager to open yourself to the possibility of creating a bond that would never have existed without that encounter, that opening, that possibility left unrefused.

It's our first record. It is a photograph of two (three?) years spent doing the thing we all do as human beings: looking at each other, touching, dancing, creating together without knowing in advance, letting go, finding each other again, looking again, searching, starting over. This is how we worked, driven by curiosity for the unknown and by the clear feeling that each time we were touching something, bringing to light things about ourselves that we didn't even know, or that (ugh!) perhaps we had forgotten, and that this would eventually become our sail towards the world, towards the ears and eyes that would stop and linger on us.

It could have been a break-up album (Adele: the lyrics are, in fact, about the end of my previous relationship), but it isn't. Rather, it “surpasses” the meaning of its lyrics, and it is our first record in the sense that it already looks ahead, towards what we can do from here on. It is a record made of friendship, love, arguments, laughter, crises and resolutions. It doesn't talk about these things; it is made of these things.>>

Over the past year, a nice noise has already attracted the attention of audiences and critics through live appearances at festivals such as Tanca Fest, Handmade Festival and Holidays Festival, as well as numerous Italian clubs.

On October 16, they will release their debut album, the cut of your jib, on okum