Five interesting artists discovered at the Buscaglione 2025 prize – Rockon.it

Article by Umberto Scaramozzino

Concluded the 2025 edition of the Buscaglione Prize Of Turinthe two -year competition that has launched and enhances emerging artists of all kinds for fifteen years, what remains is something more than the winner. Or at least this is hope, in a historical moment in which to emerge is increasingly difficult. As each time the container opens up and reveals a rich, varied content and to be deepened also and above all after the closure of the event. We will review some artists on the stages of all of Italy thanks to the various awards assigned, others should start following them and support them with a little more of good will.

Here are the five most interesting artists that emerged from the prize.

Alec Temple

We start from the Ass Piglutto of this edition, or the artist who won the First prizeThe Booster Prize and the new Record award: Alec Temple. “Reincarnation of Shirley Temple without golden curls and more synthesizers”, as the singer -songwriter of Cremona who arrives on the Buscaglione stage to give a shock to his career and stop arriving in the final with a bitter in the mouth for his umpteenth victory touched, as happened in many other contests before this, is defined. He wants to demonstrate to his mother that he has chosen the right path, that he has chosen the right job. And it is not only the incetta of prizes that gives him reason, but the widespread feeling that on stage there is a gigantic potential and that this is undoubtedly the project with more market and perspective of the whole edition. Alec is talented, an excellent performer, a recognizable voice and a pen that has the advantage of not letting us distract from the umpteenth tip of the scene. We dance, yes, but always with the ear tense to his personal story.

1 44 9 8

We find another great winner “Under the sky of Fred”, as they say as part of the Buscaglione Prize: Lorenzo Zulianithe rapper known with the Monicker “1 44 9 8“. Complicated name, detached from the context and logic of the market because it is difficult to seek, tag, index. It was thought to be difficult to remember, but thanks to the substance pulled out on the stage, it is likely that almost all the audience of the event will remember him. He played at home, bringing back the rap old school Under the spotlight of his Turin, but the success of the artist born in '98 between the ranks of the thick jury and the public has nothing to do with camaraderie. The merit is of the flow, the attitude and some memorable bars. Due to its placement in the context, she won what she had to win: Critical Award And Spotlight award. We are certainly only at the beginning of an extremely interesting path.

Unadasola

Even if they have not passed the semifinals, the Unadasola they left their mark. Two friends, Arianna Lorenzi And Francesco Tommasithat starting from their respective study paths in lyrical singing and jazz guitar have decided to put their talents and their common passion in an ambitious project, made of dreamy atmospheres, melancholy songwriting, pop melodies and high intensity electronic music. Have the beautiful and abused expression in mind “sound landscape“? Here, in this case it is really fitting. And it is a great, great shame that they did not land in the final, because they would have deserved the opportunity to be listened to, given that theirs was perhaps the least immediate and more layered proposal. Music that grows, expands as a climbing plant up to touching the right points and reaching the most important end: exciting the debut album of this precious Tuscan duo is already available on all the duo. platforms. Emma Nolde And Andrea Pachettiand it is a job that deserves to be listened to with great attention

Katana Koala Kiwi

THE Katana Koala Kiwi In the final they got there, but unfortunately they remained dry mouth of prizes. Not bad, because probably their name started bouncing from mouth to mouth already after the first semifinal, on the off topic stage in Turin. The Trieste band has courage to sell. Meanwhile, because it tries provocatively to regain a acronym historically linked to something horrible, but also because it does it with an idea of ​​music that usually does not do in this country, or if you do it does not sell. Their recipe blends post-rock with excellent electronic contaminations, a pinch of indie and the sung in Italian. However, basically, I remain post-rock, well done. The truth is that the success of projects like Explosions in the sky and gods Mogwai (which are the large sources of inspiration from the katana) is already in itself glitches in the system and ours, just like their tutelary gods, want to subvert the prediction and overturn the trend.

Androgynus

Androgynusart name of Gabriele Bernabòis a Tuscan artist who today more than ever could boast of having opened the last tour of Lucio Corsiyet it does not do it. Son of a luthier, a master's degree in violin at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, two albums already in the assets and an attitude as a provincial artist of the past, which on Saturday evening prefers to be at home playing rather than going out. The best Italian traditional songwriter meets glam rock with the welcome incursion of a violin (scandalously white) and with the ambition to create a modern sound with the use of vintage tools. His project is the one with the most interesting premises, which is why perhaps it suffers a little the final test and despite the hype only takes home the Production awardwhich is a discreet consolation that embellishes a path already more than well started.