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October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Summer's over folks. Comfort yourselves with some gloomy days on pictures and music.
boringmachines.bandcamp.com/album/adrian...
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Yerevan, October 2025
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Red Desert
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pics by Adriano Zanni
September 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Of course I always hated Spotify and the digital world of music and books since day one, but fuck me moving is harsh.
This is just the beginning, one more full van to go.
July 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Excerpts from gloomy days / Estratti di giorni cupi
July 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Estratti di giorni cupi / Excerpts from gloomy days"

The freshest photo book you can listen to this summer.
Did I say listen? Oh yeah, "Estratti di giorni cupi" is also a record, 58 minutes of ambient music and field recordings from the Ravenna countryside.
Look it up on Bandcamp while it lasts.
June 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Excerpts from gloomy days / Estratti di giorni cupi

The new book / record from Adriano Zanni
114 color pages
58 minute of music
5 hi-res pictures for free download

Out on summer solstice, for those who hate summer.

Here: boringmachines.bandcamp.com/album/adrian...
June 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It's coming, tonight(ish)

Excerpts from gloomy days / Estratti di giorni cupi
by Adriano Zanni.

114 pages of rainy and foggy days to keep you fresh
58 minutes of ambient music
5 hi-res photographs to download

Here: boringmachines.bandcamp.com/album/adrian...
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Brace yourself, winter is coming.
Me and Adriano Zanni have a surprise for all the summer haters, released (ahem) on June 21st.
"Excerpts from gloomy days" is the new book / album from Adriano.
114 color pages + 58 minutes of music
Limited to 100 copies, pre-orders through Bandcamp.
June 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Adriano Zanni - Excerpts from gloomy days
book + digital record out on June 21st

#teamwinter #fucksummer
May 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Are you ready for the summer?
I AM NOT!
If you aren't ready for the summer, you hate sticky days, with that huge yellow baloon in the sky, me and Adriano Zanni have tought of something to keep you fresh.
"Estratti di giorni cupi/Excerpts from gloomy days" is the new book/record from Adriano Zanni.
May 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
May 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ten years ago, we released this monumental double LP of haunting, cinematic blend that feels like a soundtrack to an imagined dystopian Western.
"Sun and Violence" blended together psychedelic folk and spacey tarantellas, like an Ennio Morricone under an opium spell.
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sequenze di Fabbrica
the new book / record from Adriano Zanni is available on Bandcamp.
April 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Monday at 9 PM (CET) I will be again on Fango Radio ( fangoradio.com ) with the 62nd episode of North East Tales, featuring music from Nicklas SØrensen, Eternal Tapestry, Rosso Polare, Demetrio Cecchitelli and many more.
Tune in!
March 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Sequenze di Fabbrica" by Adriano Zanni depict the factory’s geometric solitude, stripped of rhetorical grandeur, veiled in melancholic silence.
The ANIC plant required 60,000 tonnes of steel, an equal amount of cement, reshaping the region’s identity.
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February 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The ANIC plant’s construction in Ravenna sacrificed hectares of pine forest, a dam on the Reno River, and reshaped the coastal skyline forever.
By 1971, the ANIC complex was a “second city” with 4,000 workers, internal roads, and warehouses, expanding until 1981.
January 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The poetic contrast between pine forests and industrial chimneys reflects Ravenna’s struggle between nostalgia and progress.
Nostalgic memories of pine resin and coastal beauty were replaced by the sharp scents of ammonia and petroleum in Ravenna.
January 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The workers of ANIC were seen as “pioneers,” building factories on reclaimed marshland, likened to modern medieval towers.
The transformation of Ravenna’s coastal skyline included steel islands, offshore platforms, and towering industrial structures.
January 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Red Desert (1964), Antonioni portrays an alien beauty in the industrial world, where factories become more fascinating than a row of trees seen too often.
December 28, 2024 at 9:25 PM
The accompanying soundtrack, integrate fragments of dialogue from Michelangelo Antonioni's "Red Desert", further intensifying the theme of alienation and detachment. Zanni’s compositions recontextualize Antonioni’s melancholic vision, creating a bridge between the past and the present.
December 26, 2024 at 10:38 AM
"Sequenze di Fabbrica" explores the transformation of Ravenna, following the construction of the ANIC petrochemical plant in 1958.
Adriano Zanni, have documented this transformation, portraying the melancholic beauty of the industrial structures and their integration into Ravenna’s identity.
December 26, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Shipping day for "Sequenze di Fabbrica", the new book from Adriano Zanni.
December 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM