Hecojeni is an indie rock duo from Greenville, South Carolina creating melody-first songs that move between alt-folk balladry and groove-forward indie rock, with reviewers drawing comparisons to The Breeders, Talking Heads, and David Bowie. Heath Cobb writing, playing and vocals, Jeff Niebuhr writing, playing, and producing. The catalog moves easily between alt-folk balladry and groove-forward indie rock. 

One reviewer called them "two musicians catching emotional lightning."

The story behind the band is unusual. 

In April 2022, Jeff and Heath tracked a single song together on a portable rig in Port Royal, South Carolina — Catch Me When I Fall. The session ended, and Heath disappeared. Not figuratively. He moved onto a boat a mile off the South Carolina coast and stayed there for two years, kayaking in once a week for supplies, running five to twelve miles a day on the mainland with no headphones, no infrastructure, no audience.

Jeff finished the song anyway. He released it in November 2023 — less a debut single than a flare into open space.

Heath surfaced in April 2024.

What followed wasn't a comeback. It was an eruption. Fragments Jeff had been carrying for years collided with songs Heath was bringing back fully formed, and what had been a band-in-progress turned into a catalog: Catch Me When I Fall, Christmas Lost Today, Human Race, Only in My Mind, Summer's Calling, Riding the Merry Go — with more in the pipeline.

Hecojeni's recent work is mastered by Harry Hess (Muse, Barenaked Ladies). 

New music is on the way.

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