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The members of LA LOM in a screenshot from the music video for their song "San Fernando Rose." From left to right, bassist Jake Faulkner , percussionist Nic Baker and guitarist Zac Sokolow If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.
Baker, meanwhile, draws his musical influence from his grandmother, who came from a musical family in Durango, Mexico and became a prominent DJ on Spanish language radio in Tucson, Arizona. "We started playing cumbia, and a lot of the first cumbia we played was based on the Peruvian cumbia style...where the electric guitar is playing the melody as opposed to the according led cumbia of Colombia," said Sokolow."We all found that we all had that in common that we really love that music and...we started playing those songs and...
"My favorite thing to see is...for example, at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, somebody brought their whole family — kids all the way through the grandmother who came on stage and danced 'Juana la Cubana' with us," said Faulkner. "I think a lot of the sound is based off us being a trio, primarily," added Baker."So it pushes you to fill in space in a certain way. I play multiple percussion instruments at the same time and Zach's trying to fill in all these different parts, and Jake's holding it down on the bass. It creates this trifecta of sound.
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