Biography

Based in Victoria, Canada, Astrocolor are 4-time nominees at the Western Canadian Music Awards, including winning Instrumental Artist of the Year. The band’s catalogue has over 20 million streams on the major platforms, national airplay from flagship CBC shows including Afterdark and Saturday Night Jazz, as well as longtime support from notable US stations including KCRW in Los Angeles and KNKX in Seattle. Astrocolor’s dynamic live show has brought them to major festivals including Bass Coast, Burning Man, Shambhala, Song & Surf, Laketown Shakedown, and the Victoria International Jazz Festival.

The band’s recent AstroJazz series (Moonlighting – AstroJazz Vol. 1 and Stargazing – AstroJazz Vol. 2) explores the nexus between experimental jazz and instrumental psychedelia. Imagine if Miles Davis reinvented the likes of a modern Four Tet or Bonobo album; deep moody grooves with a rich, organic palette of live instruments. Both albums were produced by Neil James Cooke-Dallin at Burning Rainbow Studio in Victoria, BC, along with Executive Producer Steve Christensen, best known as Khruangbin’s longtime studio collaborator. 

Astrocolor’s newest singles “Old Time’s Sake” and “Planted a Flag” are out now with more music to come in 2026!

Press

"Super cool.” –All About Jazz (US)

"Take an imaginary cosmic journey into deep space with Canadian instrumental band Astrocolor....A dizzying blend of jazz, psychedelia, and electronics." –KCRW (LA)

"It’s no surprise that Astrocolor are picking up awards...thanks to their inimitable and exciting vision that truly rewrites the notion of what jazz should sound like via nods to ‘90s electronic music and cosmic adventurousness.” –Take Effect (US)

"Astrocolor have created a masterful collection of hip background music...they find the sweet spot between modern jazz and vintage exotica." -KNKX (Seattle)

"Spacey, dubby, jazzy background/foreground music." –The Sunday Times (UK)

“Astrocolor hone the niche art of melding '60s lounge music, Balearic beat and electronica in an alchemy that shouldn't theoretically gel – yet they pull it off with prowess and panache. Genre fluidity defines their sonic ethos.” –Exclaim (Canada)

"Keening synths, jazz soundscapes and more reverb than is strictly decent. Beard-strokingly cool.” –UNCUT (UK)

“Astrocolor are totally versed in the finer points of funky and jazzy house, the live ambient and Vienna school of electrobeats…straight out of Bristol in the 1990s with Hacienda Club love spilling off every pulse. The kind of moody sounds that contemporary jazz festivals love to book.” –Vancouver Sun (Canada)

“Like the dusty record that crackles on an old turntable, Paradise feels both classic and glamorous. Between the blinking, Rat Pack piano melody and harmonic backing vocals, Astrocolor have crafted an idyllic illusion of poolside refuge." –CBC Music (Canada)