Ground Control Touring

Circulatory System are a band led by painter / songwriter W. Cullen Hart, formerly of The Olivia Tremor Control. Their first album was released by Cloud Recordings on August 28, 2001. They did an East Coast tour in Fall 2001 with the line-up of: Will Hart (vocals, guitar, electronics); John Fernandes (clarinet, violin, bass); Peter Erchick (organ, bass, vocals); Heather McIntosh (cello, bass, vocals); Jeff Mangum (drums, vocals); and Hannah Jones (drums, percussion). In the Fall of 2002, they did a West Coast tour with Derek Almstead replacing Jeff Mangum on drums, and in the Spring of 2003 they did an East Coast tour opening for The Sea & Cake with Philip Brown sitting in for Derek Almstead on drums.

Seven and a half years in the making, culled from hours of recorded material sculpted in at least seven different studios, the new Circulatory System album is an absolutely stellar document of song and sound. Still concerned with matters of the inner / the outer, the incomprehensibly huge and the very, very small. An imperative blast of kinetic motion, composed by W. Cullen Hart while in the midst of battling Multiple Sclerosis within his own system – broadcasting his urgent pleas to the world(s) to evolve into a higher dimension or for existing patterns to reveal themselves at peace within the natural order of the universe.