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A decade ago, Dante Carfagna issued a somewhat anonymous LP under the Express Rising heading. That self-titled affair went in and out of print before 2003s summer gave way to fall, thanks in part to its release by the frustratingly obscure Memphix label, but thanks more to how it broke new ground for the instrumental rap generations interest in the sub-sub-basement of record mining. The albums blurry boreal cover captured Carfagnas mysterious persona. Though hes been attached to such seminal compilations as Chains and Black Exhaust, a grip of Eccentric Soul titles, and the recent electronic soul collection Personal Space--and though his signature "Records I barely like but maybe you will" approach to writing helped build the Wax Poetics brand--Dante remains a tough man to pin down. He doesnt even have a working doorbell.Which may be a good thing, as he recorded his second album in the middle room of his third floor walk-up in Chicagos Dog Patch neighborhood. A notorious homebody, Carfagna cut much of this second self titled LP after a long nights of Camel filters and bottled New Glarus-while watching his neighbors departure for morning straight-world commutes. Reaching back to 2008 and an Akai four track, these 11 songs break from the foraging tradition employed by Dantes debut, swapping out breakbeats and samples for guitar, Wurlitzer, banjo, steel guitar, synthesizer, and an arcane drum machine.Reached for comment, Carfagna had this to say about himself and about Express Rising: "My last record came out ten years ago. Much has changed and much has not."