"Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang drum up a storm, to put things succinctly. This album of percussion duets features intricately interlaced drums, bells, shakers, and chimes. Rolling patterns, melodicism, and moods pervade this fine album. Forget your nightmares of the endless drum solos perpetuated by bloated classic rock dinosaurs; try to put aside more current preconceptions of deadhead drum circle revivalists and world beat wannabes. These two musicians are serious but not full of themselves and they are not interested in creating a patchwork of cultural artifacts. The sounds here stand on their own; they do not cause you to try to think of which countrys native music they lifted from. The tracks on Ask the Sun are masterful enough for the connoisseur to delve into and inviting enough for the dabbler (who might well be on the way to connoisseurdom after hearing this album).