Express Rising

Express Rising can be an alias for Chicago maker/crate-digger Dante Carfagna, and a mysterious single project that initial surfaced by means of a limited-edition self-titled recording in 2003. The album’s blurry cover photo and minimal liner records spoke towards the cloudy experience from the instrumental paths included within. Carfagna performed a lot of the tools and discovered a washed-out audio mixing airy guitars, designed beats, and noises that were probably sampled but much too vague to create their actual roots a certainty. The recording was thought to have already been culled from four years’ well worth of recordings, and many similarly obscure 7″ produces made an appearance in the years encircling its release. A long way off from the traditional spirit and deep funk compilations Carfagna was known for curating, Express Increasing dwelled in comparative obscurity and secret for years before release of another self-titled recording in 2013. The next full-length also got minimal info and didn’t actually show up on a label, but was distributed partly with the Numero Group. Another Express Rising record, Fixed Rope, made an appearance two years afterwards. The record consisted of twelve improvised instrumentals documented in rural Arkansas with a trio lineup composed of Carfagna, Kevin Blagg, and William Suran.