Bill Mackay and Michael Zerang share an inspiration forged from the sounds of traditional Arabian, Turkish, Indian and Iberian folk music, alongside a love of the intimate sound that blossoms forth from two hands. With declamatory zeal, the hothouse Scarlet Hour rolls 'n flourishes, it's juices potent and fragrant. Across eight songs, the luminous timbres of Zerang's darabuka, tambourine and saz meet with MacKay's guitar, requinto and piano in open musical space, stretching through time unknowable, earthly and of fire.