Akira Nishimura has been played on NTS in shows including True As Few w/ Mark, featured first on 23 July 2018. Songs played include Mantra Of The Light and Metaux.

Akira Nishimura (西村 朗 Nishimura Akira, born September 8, 1953 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese composer. Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. While at the university, he also studied Asiatic traditional Music, religion, esthetics, cosmology, and the heterophonic concept, etc., all of which has had a lasting influence on his music to the present day. Nishimura has won many awards for his works. Nishimura was the Composer in Residence of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra 1994-1997. He is now a professor at the Tokyo College of Music, and the musical director of Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka.