Yesterday a team of 38 police, doctors and rescue workers combed the four-acre crash site on a jagged rock face four miles from the nearest road.

In an interview he recently referred to the process of composing the new songs as the 'jagged rock' he clung to during the illness of a close friend.

Using jazz musicians on jagged rock arrangements, he found a way to articulate mortality in an uplifting, forward-thinking fashion.

In an attempt to escape, the centaur loses his footing on a steep hill and falls onto a jagged rock which impales him.