An avid participant on the Swedish jazz scene of the last decade, the Japanese pianist Naoko Sakata made solo debut in the spring of 2021. “Dancing Spirits”, released on Anna von Hausswolff’s Pomperipossa Records, consists of seven improvisations performed on a Steinway piano in Annedalskyrkan, Gothenburg in august 2020. The album does not provide an ordinary listening experience and is almost impossible to classify according to genre or field. Rather, it results from a genuinely experimental musical approach, where every note follows the last without any principle other than total freedom.