Mr. How? - Vocals, Keyboards | Mackey - Guitar | Buttons - Bass | Bob - Drums

Welcome to the new school…

Hako Tranzito is the year-old collaborative effort of four San Diegans with a compulsion to create. Though still in their twenties, the members of Hako share a bond that spans more than two decades. These grade school blood brothers parted ways after high school to pursue academia, reconvening in Los Angeles to form an artist collaborative. They have built a community of high-end designers, artists, musicians and a regiment of like-minded followers. The Hako Tranzito army is poised to shake the foundation of current musical and visual commercial aesthetics into rubble and dust.

Though often compared to bands such as Radiohead, Coldplay, and the Smashing Pumpkins, Hako Tranzito boasts an energy and enthusiasm for their music and live performance that is entirely their own. The band combines in-your-face hard-hitting rock with beautifully crafted atmospheric melodies. Hako weaves an intricate tapestry of sound that originates equally from the id and the superego. Mythic themes collide unpretentiously with a haunting sound and inspiring delivery. Though the material is cerebral in nature, a Hako Tranzito show can be likened to a Bengal tiger moving quietly through the grasslands, then suddenly ravaging an antelope with furious carnal enjoyment.

Lead singer and keyboardist Mr. How? makes use of a myriad of sounds, delivering a performance that is Mozart flashy at one moment then quietly reverent and mysterious the next. Guitarist Mackey’s furious exuberance for playing live makes for a spectacle of sight and sound as he attacks his instrument as though he was performing an exorcism of the soul. Meanwhile, the hard hitting and experimental rhythm section of Bob on kit and Buttons on bass, thunders through venues like an M4 flame-throwing tank, stopping only to salute their progressive and jazz influenced forefathers on the battlefield.

Hako Tranzito can currently be seen on their west coast tour, promoting their self-produced EP.