PRIMA STANZA A DESTRA - La ragazza che suonava il piano

The artist behind the moniker "Prima stanza a destra" is a twenty-two-year-old producer (and singer-songwriter) from Naples — an anonymity option chosen perhaps because listeners all too often care more about the persona than the music. So better to stay hidden, leaving room only for the sound, putting out work marked by a total absence of references, no image of the artist. In an era of dissolving boundaries between genders, the fact that his voice could be mistaken for a woman's makes things even more intriguing, and could well win him converts.

Plenty of questions remain unanswered for now, but the themes running through the songs are made clear from the debut EP, "Amanda" (2025), where titles like "Non siamo durati niente noi", "Mi pensi ogni tanto?" and "Mi sento perso senza di te" leave no room for doubt. These subjects remain central on "La ragazza che suonava il piano" too — an EP only in length, certainly not in density or track count: eight songs, twenty minutes, sketching out a fragile, crepuscular inner world.

Inside, it narrates the struggles of a young man facing his own coming-of-age, the need not to be alone, to have someone to love beside him, the uncertainties of a future still to be deciphered — all rendered through electronic textures, ideas worked out at the piano, soft glitches, acoustic interludes and a highly distinctive falsetto voice (listen closely to "Liszt") that shows clear promise going forward. The main reference points might be Madame, Venerus, Ariete, and the vibrant tension expressed by The important things.

The album's standout track, "Tu non vuoi nessuno", is co-produced with Dardust, the delicate "Infinito" with BRAIL, while "2 am" features Drast (Psicologi) — with the Sugar/Universal machine pulling the strings, Prima stanza a destra seems to have landed on an enviable fast track. The project also has a multidisciplinary side: every track comes with a video shot by Bianca Peruzzi on the streets of Paris, starring actress Rae Ilorin — you can watch them on Prima stanza a destra's YouTube page.

In these songs it's easy to sense a thin thread linking singer-songwriter introspection to 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 capable of evoking the feel of rain on windowpanes and looming absences. The maturity of the arrangements is striking, perfectly suited to painting rarefied images of urban nostalgia.

This is a record that reveals its morbid beauty in full at night, when silence grows even more deafening and melancholy grips the heart. Prima stanza a destra shuns the shout in favor of the sigh, trying to sync its own heartbeat with the listener's. Played back again and again, it leaves no doubt: this is one of the most delicate, authentic surprises of recent months. An immersion held underwater, a sense of inevitable fading, the aesthetics of emptiness, the discreet charm of half-light.

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13/03/2026