Son Rompe Pera

SON ROMPE PERA
Biography 2023
Born and raised in Naucalpan, the deep outskirts of Mexico City, the Gama brothers and theirband Son Rompe Pera have thrashed through all preconceived notions of what a
marimba-centered band is, and have rendered the instrument inseparable from their punk
ethos. Their shows have become home to the now-infamous marimba mosh pit across the
globe, joining intergenerational audiences in moments of essential release and community
around their hard-hitting, forward-thinking, unrelenting punk-infused cumbias. With two
critically-acclaimed records under their belt, and hundreds of shows on some of the world’s mostprestigious stages to a rapidly growing audience, the band consistently proves their
boundlessness as far as where they can take the genre, standing vehemently by the fact that
traditions are meant to be both honored, broken, and built again.

Son Rompe Pera is responsible for developing and coining the now-global genre ‘Cumbia
Punk’- one rooted in their history which is steeped in deep-hearted rebellion. The Gama
brothers began playing and performing the marimba when they were kids alongside their father,Batuco, at weddings, quinceañeras, and birthday parties on weekends to help generate incomefor the family. Teenagers being teenagers, the brothers rejected the notably un-cool andtourist-shop-bound instrument out of embarrassment, turning instead to punk. They spent sometime playing in punk and psychobilly bands, but the instrument’s hold proved strong and theycame back to it eventually, taking punk with them this time. They started to put their own punk
twists on traditional cumbia songs, a wildly danceable fusion that’s come to unite global
audiences in sweaty, respectful mayhem.

In 2016 the brothers’ father, Batuco, responsible for introducing them to the marimba and also
for naming the band, was killed in an act of local violence. After that, the brothers nearly gaveup on music all together, though a chance meeting with the legendary Chilean cumbia groupChico Trujillo in 2017 kept that from happening, and eventually resulted in the recording of theirfirst studio album. The band spent 4 months in Chile recording and playing, reigniting a flamethat would eventually become impossible to extinguish.

Batuco, their debut album named after their father, was released in 2020 via ZZK Records.When a pandemic rocked the world shortly after, the band naturally took what most of the worldconsidered an obligation to stop as an opportunity to keep going. They breathed life into spacesthat were left lifeless, popping up regularly for socially distanced performances in Mexico City’sParque Mexico, fostering a sense of community when such a thing felt nearly impossible.

Throughout 2021 and 2022, when the world began to spin again, the boys hit the road, playingalmost nonstop, including multiple dates in California with the legendary Panteon Rococo, atLos Angeles’ Levitt Pavilion, the famed Lincoln Center in New York City and on countless stagesacross the U.S. and Europe, as well as an absolutely earth-shattering performance on themainstage of Vive Latino in 2022, one of the most important festivals in Latin America. Theiraudience expanded at light speed, and the demand for their infectious live experience grewstronger by the minute.

In the beginning of 2022, the band began their next chapter. They headed to Bogota, Colombia,
the birthplace of Cumbia, where they would spend a week recording their second album at
Mambo Negro studio under the guidance of Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondátropica, andLas Pirañas). The album, named Chimborazo after a street the brothers live on, flips the scripton their first album (which was all covers), delivering 12 original tracks and flying much closer towhat the world has come to know of the band’s wild shows. It features collaborations fromMacha, La Perla, Gil Gutierrez, among many others, and seamlessly blends Cumbia, tropicaldance beats, hard-hitting punk, psychedelic guitars, traditional Mexican and Colombian rhythms,horns, and a pinch of dub and hip hop.

Chimborazo was released in March of 2023 via AYA/ZZK to acclaim from the likes of NPR,
Billboard, AP, WNYC, KCRW, Songlines, and The Wire, who claimed that the album ‘steps with
rough, full throttle cumbias dominated by the ribcage rattle of the marimba, while surf punk
skeletons shake their way out of the closet’. The band, naturally, hit the ground running, with
multiple tours in the U.S. and Mexico including stops at SXSW, Treefort Festival, Punk Rock
Bowling, and their biggest hometown show yet- a sold-out date at the legendary Lunario theater
just in the first half of the year. They’ve been on a seemingly endless tour since- stopping at
some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals including Roskilde, Paleo, Rio Babel, and beyond,as well as countless stages across the U.S. and Latin America, continuing to take marimbapunk to unheard-of heights, defying the confines that traditional music is often relegated to,playing, screaming, and singing in devotion to possibility, in honor of legacy, and focused on afuture that is limitless, genre-bending, collaborative, loud, and for everyone.

LIVE at Lowbrow Palace

ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL, NO REFUNDS.

In the case of an event cancellation without a rescheduled date, a full refund will be issued. By purchasing a ticket to this event, you agree to this purchase policy. All tickets must be purchased through the www.lowbrowpalace.com website, Lowbrow Palace is not responsible for the authenticity of any 3rd party ticket sales. A bank dispute or credit card chargeback against this purchase is not compliant with said policy and will result in an automatic ban from all future event purchases.