The trio Joulik sketches their sonic travel diaries as an ode to otherworldly places, blended languages, and landscapes imbued with the scent of freedom. Their new album, Racines, anchors this journey in an imaginary territory, a borderless land where the compass swings wildly from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, from Celtic lands to Balkan shores, from Brazilian sea spray to sub-Saharan echoes. A fantasized country, revealed through the interwoven voices and strings that Joulik scatters under a palaver tree. Rooted at the heart of the world...