Will Cullen Hart

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by Jesse Jarnow
For most musicians, high-school collaborations are merely footnotes to later careers. For Will Cullen Hart, they have blossomed with him on his musical journeys with The Olivia Tremor Control and The Circulatory System.



Hailing from Ruston, LA, Hart made high-school friends with the likes of Jeff Mangum, Bill Doss, Robert Schneider, Scott Spillane, and others. Together and separately, the group made countless tapes on their four-tracks, influenced primarily by the lush psychedelic orchestrations of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and The Beatles. Though the tapes were only passed out among each other, they dubbed themselves the Elephant 6 Recording Company, and emblazoned each release with a logo designed by Hart.



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