Astral Spirits

Astral Spirits Records is an independent record label specializing in free jazz, improvisation, and experimental music. Based in Austin, Texas, the label was founded in 2014 by musician Nathan Cross, who started Astral Spirits as a platform for "the new wave of heavy free jazz"; as the breadth of the label's offerings expanded, imprint Astral Editions became the home for its more experimental releases.

Astral Spirits has been featured in Bandcamp Daily, All About Jazz, the Chicago Reader, DownBeat, and the Free Jazz Collective; Rolling Stone has called the label "crucial" and "enormously prolific"; and in 2019, Tiny Mix Tapes included Astral Spirits among their favorite labels of the decade.