(In 1989, IRS combined Afoot and Cypress on a single CD.)Īfter Hunter and Romweber (who went on to Snatches of Pink) left the band, Easter did shows with other players (including Windbreaker Tim Lee) and recorded Big Plans for Everybody piecemeal with four people, including Hunter and two permanent associates: Angie Carlson (the future ex-Mrs. Few records sound so multi-dimensional, and Let’s Active has, for that reason, been tagged psychedelic - they make sounds you can almost touch. Denser, rambling textural pieces - some wistful, even angry - came to the fore. Both Easter’s love of “sounds” and the band’s inner conflicts were explored on Cypress, a record that is deeper and more enduring, though not as immediately winning, as Afoot. In real life, the trio were not just simple, cheerful popsters. (His career as a producer was also taking off.) Also, his two original partners - bassist Faye Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber (sister of Flat Duo Jets’ Dexter Romweber) - were viewed as sidepeople, despite Easter’s egalitarian efforts to the contrary.
Although perceived as the engineer of the now-sound-of-today in American guitar pop, Easter’s own tastes were running towards the electronic gadgetry of techno-rock. Pick to click: “Every Word Means No.”īut things were not as they seemed. All the songs, even those with melancholy lyrics, are hook-filled, boppy and ultra-hummable. Joining that band’s label, Let’s Active released a six-song EP, Afoot, bringing new meaning to such overused pop adjectives as crisp, bright and ringing. Producer/multi-instrumentalist Mitch Easter assembled the trio in 1981, but it only emerged nationally in the wake of R.E.M., whose first two discs Easter co-produced at his Drive-In garage studio outside of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though dogged by a rosy-cheeked nicest-guys-of-wimp-pop image, they could be downright moody. The national rate is 95.2 now.North Carolina’s Let’s Active was probably the most misunderstood of the South’s ’80s new-pop bands. The rate dropped by over seven percentage points in these 17 days. The recovery rate slid further on Friday to 91.12 from 91.77 per cent on Thursday. However, it has become increasingly clear since that it was part of a much larger, nationwide wave and not an isolated regional spike. The trigger then was identified by sources in the state government as a general disregard for Covid-19 safety protocols among revellers in Calcutta and surrounding areas in the run up to Christmas. The surge was initially confined to the city and its immediate neighbourhood. In the 17 days since, the state has logged nearly 2.32 lakh new infections, including 85,824 from Calcutta. The total active caseload was 7,457 then. On December 28 - the last day of relatively normal numbers before the latest spell of the surge in Bengal, the statewide total was 752, including 382 from Calcutta. But it still means one out of every three tests is returning positive. The positive confirmation rate - the percentage of samples testing positive for the novel coronavirus - improved on Friday slightly to 31.14 from 32.13 per cent on Thursday. The state’s mortality rate is 1.07 per cent now, with that of infected males at 1.26 and of infected females 0.83. The 75-plus age group, with 22.7 per cent of the deaths, has the highest mortality rate, of 6.68. The most deaths - nearly 42 per cent - took place in the 61-75 age bracket, which has a mortality rate of 3.07. Over 90 per cent of all Covid-19 deaths in Bengal were of people aged 46 or more. Over a fourth of such deaths were caused by diabetes. Hypertension has been reported as the main comorbidity of a third of the 14,009 deaths. Calcutta logged seven and North 24-Parganas eight.Ĭomorbidities were attributed to 14,009 (70 per cent) of the total deaths. On Friday, thirteen of the state’s 23 districts reported zero deaths. The first death caused by the infection had been recorded on March 23, 2020, Calcutta and North 24-Parganas, taken together, accounted for over 52 per cent of the deaths. The state’s death toll from Covid-19 went past 20,000 to touch 20,013 on Friday.
There were also 8,687 recoveries and 28 deaths, which along with the fresh infections, resulted in a rise by 13,930 in the total of active cases. In the 24-hour period till 9am on Friday, the state logged 22,645 infections, including 6,867 from Calcutta.
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