Remembering Olivia Tremor Control's Will Cullen Hart, who has died at age 53, and his role in the Elephant 6 musical collective
Will Cullen Hart always seemed like he existed outside of time. The beloved Southern musician and visual artist, who died at age 53 on Nov. 29, spent his life writing and recording some of the most stunningly profound, beautifully naïve psychedelic music ever made. He was at the heart of the loose assemblage of visionaries calledfrom the time it began with four high school friends in Ruston, Louisiana, in the late Eighties.
A few years ago, I spoke with Hart about a 20th-anniversary vinyl repress of the first Circulatory System album. He was a sweet, thoughtful, rambling presence on the other end of the phone line, and while that interview went unpublished at the time, I revisited it this weekend and found it full of gnomic wisdom. He told me that’s introspective tone came from his approaching 30th birthday back in 2001. “All the things I’m thinking about are going inward,” he said.
He continued: “When someone dies, I like to pretend I’m talking to them and they talk to me. I don’t really think that’s the case. But I like to dream that.” Just this past week, two of those songs were released as part of the soundtrack to executive producer Rob Hatch-Miller’s Elephant 6 documentary:
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