This is Patchouli

Bruce Hecksel's primary instrument is acoustic guitar. In addition to intense study in many styles from fingerstlye, flamenco, classical, jazz, flat picking, and folk, he studied concert piano, choral compositions and plays bass guitar and percussion on stage. But Bruce started his guitar adventure in a punk rock band named Be Safe Be Seen. At a Canadian music festival in 1991 his electric guitar and amp were stolen and he was left with only his acoustic guitar, which he took as a sign and never played an electric guitar again.




As lyricist and lead vocalist of Patchouli, Julie's background is in words. She began reciting poetry when she was seven. She walked around with her steno notepad and recorded all her observations of her young life. Dabbling in violin, drums, and trombone throughout school she worked many of her poems into acapella pieces that she and friends would perform.

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Music

Tags:

• punk
• rock
• meets
• poetry
• wisconsin
• minnesota

[andyguitar59]

This video is of my favorite song of theirs, "This is the Land", prior to release on the Woodlands CD. Looks like it was filmed at Cameron Park in LaCrosse, WI.