Sven-Åke Johansson has been played on NTS shows including Damon Eliza Palermo Presents: Inner Realm, with Barcelona Series first played on 13 October 2017.

Sven-Åke Johansson (born in Mariestad in 1943; died June 2025) was a Swedish drummer and composer remembered for his association with free jazz and free improvisation. Living in Berlin from 1968, he was in the Globe Unity Orchestra and played with German reedist Alfred Harth and Belgian pianist Nicole Van den Plas in E.M.T..

In 1972, he recorded and released Schlingerland, one of the first solo free jazz recordings by a drummer.