Aaron Jackson’s first release as ConChie since 2020’s critically-acclaimed debut Northumbria, Songs for Separation explores traditional song forms as a way to give structure and form to the pain and challenges of familial separation during the pandemic. Identifying the power of the future’s possibilities as a locus of hope in hard times, Song For Separation is a powerful, passionate and authentic collection of new originals.

Finally recorded in late-2023 and released for review on 31st March 2024, Songs For Separation’s emotional immediacy, melodic gifts and apparent simplicity unfold over seven tracks to present an album of depth, complexity and consideration.

To find out more about Songs for Separation’s writing, production and release go to Origin(al) Stories.

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Critical reaction to Songs For Separation.

‘Recorded on analogue 4-track but sounding anything but lo-fi, this is an album, as footie pundits might say, of two halves. [Side One’s] six tracks [are] emotionally direct [and] richly melodic … while Side Two’s [30-minute] Home For Me is equal parts meditational fever dream and end-of-night comedown. But really, all killer, no filler.’

(Exposed Magazine, June 2024)