Nico Yaryan

The son of northern California hippies, Nico Yaryan had a quintessentially west coast upbringing during the 1980s. He spent his childhood skateboarding, working retail jobs, and digging in the dollar crates for records that could be used as sample material for his own hip-hop beats, inspired his then-idols J Dilla and DJ Premier. This somewhat aimless existence was given an injection of purpose when Yaryan's high school friend and blues-rock guitarist Hanni El Khatib came looking for a drummer for his upcoming tour. Yaryan spent almost two years touring the world while he d...