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 of expression, there is nothing else and is almost impossible to classify into a genre or a category.

Naoko Sakata describes her approach to music as follows:

​“When I sit in front of the piano, I channel the energies inside and outside me. Music flows in me and my body express the music that I hear in my head in that moment. There are no obstacles to its realisation and I don't follow rules on how to make it happen. It is at the same time something natural and highly spiritual, sacred and wild, something that lives in a moment in time and only in that, before disappearing forever ”.