Kitaro has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 22 episodes and was first played on 2 September 2014.

Kitarō (喜多郎) (born Masanori Takahashi (高橋正則 Takahashi Masanori)) is a Grammy award-winning Japanese musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was playing in Far East Family band at 1965 with Klaus Schulze, Akira Ito, Fumio Miyashita, Hirohito Fukushima, and Yujin Harada.

In 1989, he wrote the "Japanese" Theme for the film "Return From The River Kwai". The theme can be heard on Harkit Records HRKCD 8259 www.harkitrecords.com

He has worked with guitarist Marty Friedman, formerly of Megadeth, on the "Scenes" album. He has also worked with Hong Kong Cantopop singer Anita Mui on the song "Years Flowing Like Water" "似水流年".

Kitaro composed the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Heaven and Earth.