Naoko Sakata has been played on NTS shows including Night Shift w/ Diamondstein, with Improvisation 2 first played on 11 May 2021.

Naoko Sakata is a japanese pianist, born in 1983 in Nara Prefecture, based in Sweden. She is an improvisation pianist and is recognised for her fearless and intuitive improvisation style and her heart felt playing has become her personal trademark. Her music reaches from the very depths of calm poetic beauty to intense explosive chaos, where everything comes together as one powerful expression. Music she creates is the daughter of the moment and therefore unrepeatable, pure improvisation. In addition to the artist's freedom…