Il Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti (o C.S.I.) was an Italian band born from the ashes of the CCCP – Fedeli alla linea. The album were distributed by record company founded by the group members themselves, il Consorzio Produttori Indipendenti.

After the group’s dissolution in 2002, some former members of C.S.I. joined PGR.

After the end of CCCP (1990), with the fall of the Berlin Wall, what was left of the original CCCP (Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and Massimo Zamboni, the “Emilian nucleus”) met with the “Tuscan nucleus” coming out of Litfiba, consisting of Gianni Maroccolo and Francesco Magnelli, who had already collaborated on CCCP’s last album Fedeli alla Linea, Epica Etica Etnica Pathos, together with their sound engineer, Giorgio Canali. Their first collaboration began with a concert at the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato (held together with Üstmamò and Disciplinatha on September 18, 1992 and documented on the album Maciste contro tutti) and continued with a successful series of records.

The acronym C.S.I., besides being an acronym for “Consortium of Independent Sounders,” is an obvious reference to the changes taking place in the former Soviet empire. As in fact the previous name referred to the Cyrillic abbreviation for the Soviet Union, so this one refers to the Commonwealth of Independent States that had taken the place of the U.R.S.S. Compared to the CCCP lineup, Gianni Maroccolo (bass), Giorgio Canali (guitars), Francesco Magnelli (piano, keyboards) and his wife Ginevra Di Marco (at first as a backing vocalist) join the band permanently, while Fatur and Annarella leave the company.