If I had a nickel for every time a musician was connected to a mysterious death in ways that seem to be relevant to the assassination of Xu Shaoyong, I’d have two nickels… which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!
- Efrim Waite went missing and has now turned up in Tunisia, the same place where their fellow Polysemic Sortilege band member Imran Djebarri was found murdered in 2033. No evidence of a direct connection there, but Shaoyong’s article has an update that mentions how Djebarri’s “final days and manner of death were seemingly foreshadowed by numerous lyrics from Of Altars & Graves & Sacrifices,” Efrim’s controversial second solo album… which Shaoyong refused to hand over to authorities.
- I previously mentioned the South African President’s death, but now we have some more information on that event from the Shahada Ndaba article. Seems her band’s performance at a government gala was directly or indirectly responsible for his death, which his successor has now linked to the assassination of Shaoyong.
I’m intrigued by the pop-up explanation of APF, the phenomenon that’s mentioned in Shahada’s article:
Maybe colloids have a way of inadvertently amplifying the emotive power of music to the point that it can quite literally kill people?