“Percussion is the bottom line. When you’re talking, crying, when it rains, there is percussion,” declared percussionist extraordinaire Mokhtar Samba. The African skinsman would know best. After all, he’s plied his trade professionally from 1977 and played with the likes of Carlos Santana, Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorious, Jean Luc Ponty and Youssou N’Dour in that time. Racines was recorded in studio sessions with renowned international jazz artistes in New York City and Paris, and is a first foray into the international recording arena for label NBT Records.