Jason Smith(XIII)

Jason Smith is an American musician and film composer. As the primary force behind bedroom pop band Night's Bright Colors, he has released 8 albums and several EPs that combine elements of indie pop, electronic, folk, classical, ambient, and experimental music, including an extensive concept series of albums that depict the passing of a single night. The series, "Progression of Night," starts with Love In The Asylum-the title taken from a poem of the same name by longtime melancholic and insomniac Dylan Thomas-and is followed by First Set Fire To The Stars, Late Night By Lamplight, and concludes with Late Bloomer. The quartet features traditional song structures alongside more somnambulist and experimental elements and a varied palette of instrumentation. Originally modeled on the classical symphony form, with themes and textures reprised and referenced throughout the four albums, the series is a vast exploration into the nature of redemption, the lyrics using wordplay and shifting perspectives to depict a fictitious protagonist's struggles with memories, loss, dreams/hallucinations, and the trauma of experience, both real and imagined. Many songs from the series have been used in various feature films of different genres in addition to original incidental music contributions.