The voice rises up like a ghost, racked and strained, calling out from an ethereal space. “Here, there’s no music here/ I’m lost in streams of sound,” comes the haunted cry of the lost Starman, calling out across the void. “Am I nowhere now?”

The final three completed recordings of the late, great David Bowie will be released next Friday (October 21) and they make for fascinating, moving and, as ever, wonderfully discombobulating listening.

No Plan, Killing a Little Time and When I Met You were all written by Bowie to fill narrative gaps in Lazarus, the experimental musical that ran off-Broadway from November 2015 until late January 2016, coinciding with the release of Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, and his death on January 10.

According to Bowie’s representatives, they were his last ever studio work, written, arranged, produced and mixed under the artist’s supervision before his death.