Will Cullen Hart always seemed like he existed outside of time.
He was a musician who believed in joy even when that was hard to do.
He told me thatCirculatory Systems introspective tone came from his approaching 30th birthday back in 2001.
Hart (second from right) with Circulatory System in 2002Courtesy Elephant 6 Recording Co.
All the things Im thinking about are going inward, he said.
And at the end, we will live forever.
To me its like a sequence something likeDark Side of the Moon.
It has a beginning and end.
But hes an incredible drummer, man.
Their last show took place in Athens just a week before Doss unexpected death of an aneurysm.
Hart kept returning to the idea of something existing outside of linear time.
He quoted some lyrics from the Circulatory System songPrehistoric: Prehistoric to the present day/Its all inside us.
Right now, where Im sitting, its 1862, he said, trying to explain.
I cant go in there, but I feel it happening.
I dont really think thats the case.
But I like to dream that.
Over the past decade and a half, there were periodic hints of new Olivia Tremor Control music.
Ill get to sing with him one more time, he told me.
I have a part where I come in on one line where hes singing.
Im still singing with him.
(The film, whose producers also included Rob Hatch-Miller and Lance Bangs, isstreaming now.)
Back when we last spoke, Hart kept going on the theme of whether hed ever see Doss again.
I did in a dream, once, he said.
Sometimes I really feel like that might be real.
Hes been in many dreams where I said, I really feel like I saw him last night.
So today, listen to Garden of Light and The Same Place; listen toDusk at Cubist CastleandBlack Foliage.
It always felt magical to hear what happened when their visions and voices intertwined.
That magic is more bittersweet today, but its still there.
It will live forever, and you know its true.
