Express Rising Indie ” was doo-wop floater Ben

” was doo-wop floater Ben Caldwell

After the Pacific Northwest grunge raids of the early ’90s that saw Nirvana

were shelved when Stiffler returned home to news of founder Moses Asch’s death

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Express Rising Indie ” was doo-wop floater BenA 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.