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Mulata Universal By Clarisse Albrecht

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Born to a French father and a Cameroonian mother, Clarisse split her childhood between Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and France. As a child, Clarisse was a shy and dreamy little girl, always reading, writing stories, singing and dancing. Her dream was to one day sing beautiful songs with the elegance of Sade. Years in Maputo have certainly been the most striking moments of her childhood. She lived in a cosmopolitan ambient, listening to rhythms from all over the world.This is where she learned Portuguese, watching Brazilian novelas on TV, and dreaming about Rio De Janeiro. In the early 90s, her family went back to France. The change were not that easy and Clarisse became very nostalgic of her African childhood. However, France is also a part of her and offers another incredible blend of cultures and traditions. Once again, dived in a multiple ethnicities ambient, she discovered Hip Hop, Electronic Music among others. Her passion for writing and singing becoming even more vivid, she joined a Gospel choir and made her first performances on stage as a lead singer and backup vocalist. She began to really wonder which musical way she should follow to fulfill her artistic aspirations. While studying Cinema at La Sorbonne, she sang as a backup vocalist in a band performing Soul & Funk covers. The will to express herself other than being a performer were too strong for her, she will quickly leave the band. She needed to find her way. With her eclectic musical tastes, it wasn’t an easy task. But she decided to take it easy. Time will tell.

From her childhood, she kept love for travels and an obvious attachment for the Portuguese language. This tongue which transcribes so well her deep nostalgia. So she decided to work on Brazilian standards. MPB, Bossa, Samba. She dived herself deep into this culture, into this music full of”saudade”, so connected with her childhood memories of Maputo. That was the perfect timing to achieve another big dream : fly to Rio de Janeiro! During her journey, she soaked up the atmosphere, the sounds, the spirit of Rio… The marvelous city brought much more than expected. One night, chilling at Posto 6 of Copacabana’s beach, a friend wrote a poem for her; saying that when she smiles with all her heart and soul, she becomes a “mulata universal”. For Clarisse it’s an eye-opener. Here was what she needed to express. The essence of what her music should be. The soul of a woman with an universal heart. Back to Paris, she focused on creating her own music. Writing, songwriting, with the help of fellow producer and composer, LS. With lyrics full of “saudade” and love, transcribing her bohemian spirit in a subtle fusion between Soul & Bossa-Nova, Clarisse with her sultry and mesmerizing voice, invites us in her cosmopolitan and warm shelter. We are ONE, we are LOVE. Welcome to Mulata Universal’s world..

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Mulata Universal – The album.

After the release of two beautiful singles, « Você Me Dá » (Best African Diaspora Song at the MOAMAS 2011) and « Não Posso Parar », Clarisse presents her début album « Mulata Universal », produced by R’N’B producer LS (Afrodiziac).
 Bringing together in a subtle fusion Soul and Bossa-Nova, « Mulata Universal » offers a musical journey through which, Clarisse, lyricist and songwriter, expresses herself with sensualism and sensitivity. A sultry voice, a delicate and versatile writing, using sometimes Portuguese melancholy, using sometimes the universality of english, Clarisse delivers an album for music distingue lovers, digging elegant and timeless productions able to be classified among those from Sade or Cesaria Evora. «Deixa Rolar» is the single representing the album. A summery tune sweet and sultry, the perfect soundtrack for a beautiful summer.

ARTISTE : CLARISSE ALBRECHT

ALBUM : MULATA UNIVERSAL

SORTIE DIGITALE & PHYSIQUE : 22 JUIN 2015

PRODUCTION : ONE MUSIC

ULTRASUBTILE DISTRIBUTION DIGITALE : BELIEVE DIGITAL & MAYWOOD INT.

DISTRIBUTION PHYSIQUE : SHARK UPC

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TRACKLISTING

01. Mulata Universal

02. Não Posso Parar

03. Deixa Rolar

04. Minha Perdição

05. Esse Amor

06. Les Voix Du Monde

07. Maputo

08. Somehow

09. Você Me Dá

10. La, La, La

11. Além Do Atlântico

12. No Puedo Parar, Part. II : The Macrofunk’s Caribbean Remix Featuring Adolfo Guerrero

POETIC LYRICS

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Clarisse, singer-songwriter is also the mother and the stepmother of two girls. She attaches importance to the meaning of the words and is attentive to the lyrics of the songs they listen to. For that reason, she asked for the creation of a warranty label for the parents having the same worries. This label indicates that the contents of her lyrics are poetic and don’t contain insults or expressions which can disturb young or sensitives souls..

Discography

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Contact

BOOKING / MANAGEMENT

One Music – Thierry Wora Tel. : +336 13 65 51 59 contact@one-music.fr

PRESS RELATIONS

Katharina R-Césaire Tel. : +336 33 22 78 53 katharina.rcesaire@gmail.com

BOOKING AMERICAS & CARIBBEAN

Ultrasubtile Management Tel. : +1 809 330 6664 management@clarissealbrecht.com

INTERNET

http://www.clarissealbrecht.com http://www.facebook.com/clarissealbrecht http://www.twitter.com/clarisseonline http://www.instagram.com/clarissealbrecht

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Janice

Quick Ways to Get Rid of Dark Circles Under Eyes

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Nothing screams back to school and early mornings more than unsightly dark circles under your eyes. While getting adequate amounts of sleep, eating a balanced diet full of a variety of fruits and vegetables and drinking plenty of water can prevent and diminish the appearance of dark under-eye circles over time, sometimes you need a quick fix to get you out the door and looking your best. Fortunately, there are a number of fast remedies that take less than 15 minutes to prepare and apply.

Cucumber Slices

You have probably heard your mother talk about using cucumber slices as a remedy for eye puffiness, but they are also an excellent way to revitalize tired eyes and reduce the appearance of under-eye circles. Cucumbers are mild, soothing and contain a large amount of water. When placed on the eyes, they help hydrate and cool the skin which decreases the swollen appearance of many dark under-eye circles. Hydrated skin promotes an increase in blood flow to the area, causing the eyes to look less sunken.

To use cucumbers on your eyes, slice the cucumber into 1/4-inch slices and cool in the refrigerator for five minutes. Lie down and place one slice on each closed eye. Leave them in place for 10 minutes. For an even more dramatic effect, grate a chilled, peeled cucumber, place a portion of the cucumber shreds on two square gauze pads and apply these to your eyes for 10 minutes.

Tea Bags

Like cucumbers, tea has naturally soothing properties and can provide much needed hydration to dehydrated skin. You can use either black tea or herbal tea bags to treat under-eye circles. Put two of the tea bags in cold water and allow them to soak undisturbed for five minutes. Shake the excess water off the bags–but do not wring or squeeze all the moisture from them–and place them on your eyes for 10 minutes.

Almond Oil

Massaging the under-eye areas with a small amount of almond oil is another way to diminish quickly the appearance of dark circles. Almond oil has been used in many Eastern cultures, particularly in India, as an all-purpose treatment for improved skin health. It is thought to soothe inflammation, to make the skin soft and moisturized and to lighten the dark circles beneath the eyes visibly. To use almond oil, place a few drops on your fingers and gently massage the oil into the under-eye area. Be careful not to rub too vigorously or to use too much oil.

Concealer

Sometimes, your best bet is simply to cover the dark circles up with concealer. If under-eye circles are a recurring problem for you, keep a concealer in a shade slightly lighter than your skin tone on hand. To use the concealer, first moisturize the area with eye cream, then apply your normal makeup. Using a soft makeup brush, gently apply the concealer to the under-eye area, being careful not to use too much. Article via Modernmom.

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Janice

Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend

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A glorious three-day weekend has arrived for (most) “knowledge workers,” that euphemistic term for those of us who spend our days hunched over a keyboard, eyes locked for hours at a time on the screen ahead. But here’s the thing: The bulk of the research in medicine, sleep, cognitive science, and organizational psychology overwhelmingly suggests that a shorter workweek should be the norm rather than the holiday-weekend exception.

Many companies in the U.S. have already picked up on this, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Families and Work Institute, which found that 43 percent of the 1,051 employers surveyed offered compressed workweeks to at least some employees. During your three days of freedom this weekend, Science of Us suggests that you spend part of that time pondering the arguments for why more of us should be working fewer hours.

You’d be healthier. Long hours at the office are pretty terrible for your heart, decades of large medical studies have found. Just last month, The Lancet published a big meta-analysis — a study of studies, basically — that looked at the link between heart disease and overwork in more than 600,000 American, European, and Australian men and women. They found that the individuals who worked longer hours — 55 hours per week or more — had a 33 percent increased risk of stroke than people who worked less than 40 hours per week; the overworked employees also had a 13 percent greater risk of developing heart disease compared to their peers who worked fewer hours.

Longer hours were especially hard on the hearts of the lower-income individuals included in the Lancet meta-analysis, and another big meta-analysis published in The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology earlier this year found that people who work long hours doing manual labor or other non-white-collar jobs had a 30 percent increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who worked less than 40 hours a week at those same types of jobs.

You’d sleep more. People who work less than 40 hours a week also, not surprisingly, tend to get more sleep, and they also have an easier time falling asleep than their peers who work more than 55 hours per week. Of the 10,000 employees included in a 2009 paper published in the journal Sleep, those who reported working 40 hours a week or less slept more hours, had an easier time falling asleep, and were more likely to wake up feeling refreshed than those who worked longer hours.

The reason, the researchers posit: Working long hours leaves little time to chill. “Relaxation has been recognized as an important prerequisite in the prevention of sleep-onset insomnia,” they write. “As long working hours have been found to be associated with increased need of recovery after work, these employees would actually need more time to recover than workers with workdays of normal length.”

You’d be less of a jerk, probably. Overwork leads to overtiredness, and sleepy people are more likely to be emotional basket cases. When people are low on energy, they are more likely to misread other people’s emotions, even getting the fairly obvious ones — like “happy” and “angry” — wrong. Sleepy people also tend to be more likely to pick fights with their significant others than the well-rested.

All of that, plus, you’ll be better at your job. This is the paradoxical magic of a shorter workweek, and it is as true today as it was 200 years ago, as Sarah Green Carmichael pointed out in a recent Harvard Business Review post. “In the 19th century, when organized labor first compelled factory owners to limit workdays to 10 (and then eight) hours, management was surprised to discover that output actually increased — and that expensive mistakes and accidents decreased,” Carmichael writes, adding that in 2009 a pair of Harvard Business School researchers decided to try bringing this experiment into the 21st century.

In one of their experiments, the researchers forced employees at a consulting firm in Boston to take a day off — totally off, no email check-ins allowed — in the middle of the workweek. After five months of this routine, the firm’s clients reported an improvement in service from the teams who took time off, as compared to the clients of the teams who worked their usual 50-plus hours per week.

All of this is to say: Enjoy your three-day weekend, and let us dream together of a world in which this is the norm. Article by nymag.com

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Janice