Onga / Boring Machines

Summer's over folks. Comfort yourselves with some gloomy days on pictures and music.
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National Gallery of Yerevan

Cascade, Yerevan (detail)

Modelo62 (NL) in concert, Yerevan

Halloumi cheese with dried and fresh tomatoes and black olives

Yerevan, October 2025

From Antonioni's Red Desert: a wide shot; in the lower half, Giuliana walks alongside a grey wall; in the upper half, behind the wall and looming over it, is a complex of identical round metal tankers; steam also rises up from behind the wall.

From Adriano Zanni’s ‘Sequenze di fabbrica’: the same industrial orbs we saw in Red Desert, now seen from a lower angle, from closer up, and in black and white.

A memorable Red Desert location, as photographed more recently by Adriano Zanni @boredmachine.bsky.social We see the industrial orbs from a lower and more human angle: we see the poles anchoring them to the earth and the bases of the ladders we could climb if we wanted to ascend these structures.

Totally worth read if you're into Antonioni, a detailed analysis of the Red Desert movie.

Thanks for the mentions! ♥️

The Red Desert
@lewisbeerblog.bsky.social

pics by Adriano Zanni

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.

Excerpts from gloomy days / Estratti di giorni cupi

Adriano Zanni - Estratti di giorni cupi - Radioaktiv Adriano Zanni ci invita a un viaggio intimo e contemplativo alla scoperta degli inverni della provincia di Ravenna.

Estratti di giorni cupi / Excerpts from gloomy days
Italian review on Radioaktiv

"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.

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...

front cover of the photo-book "Estratti di giorni cupi" by Adriano Zanni

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...

Rainy day, countryside of Ravenna.

Rainy day, countryside of Ravenna.

Rainy day, countryside of Ravenna.

Rainy day, countryside of Ravenna.

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.

Near my house there are two scops owls who sing with a second of delay one from the other. They chase, meet and depart again. Sounds like a Selected Ambient Works vol.II track.
#countryside #aphextwin #theowlsarenotwhattheyseem

boat on the dock of Ravenna, in the rain

Rainy road on the countryside of Ravenna

Beach entrance in Ravenna, during rainstorm

Adriano Zanni - Excerpts from gloomy days
book + digital record out on June 21st

#teamwinter #fucksummer

Estratti di giorni cupi, by Adriano Zanni 8 track album

114 pages of rain, fog, solitude and silence plus a digital album to keep your ears fresh.
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Release day is June 21st (ha-ha)
Limited to 100 copies, for real summer haters, no phonies.
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Pre-order here: adriano-zanni.bandcamp.com/album/estrat...

Rainy street in the countryside with solitary dog.

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.

mofo full of fomo

Rain in the countryside of Ravenna

Soon
#teaminverners
#adrianozanni

LP cover of Heroin in Tahiti "Sun and Violence" (Boring Machines, 2015)

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.

The red desert Monica Vitti in front of cooling tower

Cooling tower at ANIC in Ravenna

Cooling tower at ANIC in Ravenna

Cooling tower at ANIC in Ravenna

Sequenze di Fabbrica
the new book / record from Adriano Zanni is available on Bandcamp.

Sign "Allegria" (Happiness) of a circus seen from outside the fences.

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!

For those of you who like to follow a careful insight on one of the cult movies from Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert, you should follow Lewis

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Monica Vitti in front of a cooling tower at ANIC, Ravenna. Still from the movie "Red Desert" by M. Antonioni.

"Sequenze di Fabbrica" book and 10" vinyl.

Cooling tower at ANIC in Ravenna.

Pipes coming and going inside the petro-chemical plant of ANIC, Ravenna.

"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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Trees of the Ravenna shore with industrial plant ANIC in the background

Trees of the Ravenna shore

Trees of the Ravenna shore with fog

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.

Naked tree in front of industrial plant immersed in vapours

ANIC industrial plant immersed in fog

Gas pipe inside natural area

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.

Marshes surrounding the new industrial plant. Ravenna, 1958.

Aerial view of the ANIC industrial plant, in Ravenna.

Cooling tower in the ANIC industrial plant in Ravenna.

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.

metal pipes from petro-chemical plant in Ravenna (Italy)

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.