Established in early 2003, Die Schachtel is a record label/publishing house specialising in electronic/concrete/avant-garde music, sound poetry and artists' records. The two founders, Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, joined their skills to give life to an independent and no-profit cultural enterprise: in fact, all the revenues from sales are re-invested in future projects. The name (from the title of a 1969 piece by Franco Evangelisti) is a metaphor of the conceptual and creative space occupied by both the composer and the publisher. It also refers to the production of sound artefacts and art multiples as "sonic boxes", full of surprising and unexpected musical discoveries. Aim of Die Schachtel is to publish both archival and unreleased material from the most interesting (and often unknown) names of both the electronic avant-garde music and the sound-art scene, of the period 1960-1980. A special attention is given to those artists who, although recognised as pioneers and masters of their own genre, seldom had the possibility to publish their music, and consequently never gained a wider recognition for their work. The ambitious task is "completing the map" of the sound territories occupied by experimental music (especially Italian), and thus create (or re-create) a relevant link with the new generation of experimental musicians, which very often (at least in Italy) have few or no awareness of the extraordinary musical and creative heritage left by great musicians like Pietro Grossi, Enore Zaffiri etc. .
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