PRIMA STANZA A DESTRA - La ragazza che suonava il piano

The artist hiding behind the moniker "Prima stanza a destra" is a twenty-two-year-old producer (and singer-songwriter) from Naples, an anonymity he's chosen perhaps because listeners too often worry more about the persona than the music. So it is that his early releases have been marked by a total absence of images or references to the author. In an era of dissolving boundaries between genders, the fact that his voice could be mistaken for a woman's makes for an even more intriguing situation, one that could well win him converts.

Plenty of questions remain unanswered for now, but the themes running through the songs are clear enough, starting with his debut EP, "Amanda", released in 2025, where titles like "Non siamo durati niente noi", "Mi pensi ogni tanto?" and "Mi sento perso senza di te" leave little room for doubt. These same concerns remain central on "La ragazza che suonava il piano", an EP that earns the name mainly for its length rather than for the density or number of tracks: eight songs across twenty minutes that sketch out a fragile, crepuscular world.

Inside, we hear the struggles of a young man navigating his own coming of age, the need not to be alone, to have someone to love by his side, the uncertainties of a future still all to be deciphered — all rendered through electronic textures, ideas built around the piano, soft glitches, acoustic interludes and a highly distinctive falsetto voice (listen closely to "Liszt") that shows real promise going forward. The main touchstones might be Madame, Venerus, Ariete, and the vibrant tension of Le Cose Importanti. The album's standout track, "Tu non vuoi nessuno", is co-produced with Dardust, the delicate "Infinito" with BRAIL, while "2 am" features Drast; with the Sugar/Universal team pulling the strings, Prima stanza a destra seems to have landed on an enviable fast track. The project also has a multidisciplinary side: each track comes with a video shot by Bianca Peruzzi on the streets of Paris, starring actress Rae Ilorin, all of which can be watched on Prima stanza a destra's YouTube page.

In these songs it's not hard to sense a thin thread connecting singer-songwriter introspection with the rarefied atmospheres of dream-pop, in a work that makes emotional minimalism its banner, expressed in lyrics that convey a poetics of the everyday, evoking the feeling of rain on windowpanes and of cumbersome absences. The maturity of the arrangements is striking, perfectly capturing images of morbid urban nostalgia. A record that fully reveals its beauty in the night hours, when silence grows even more deafening and melancholy grips the heart.

Prima Stanza a Destra shuns the scream, preferring the sigh, trying to sync its own heartbeat with that of the listener. Heard again and again, it leaves no doubts: it's one of the most delicate and authentic surprises of recent months. An immersion in apnea, a sense of inevitable vanishing, the aesthetics of emptiness, the discreet charm of half-light.

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05/05/2026