He’s also the newest of Terry Riley’s disciples at Kirana East, the small but vibrant raga school founded by Riley after he relocated to Japan in 2020. I’ve sought out Kirana East with a degree of confidence in my understanding of its basic premises. I am not a student of any substance in this music, I say to myself; I’m not even a musician. As disciples of Pran Nath, Young and his wife Marian Zazeela were not above tying his shoes if it meant making his life “more beautiful”. If discipleship remains niche as a way of life, other aspects of kirana hold unmistakable appeal in the Western avant garde, with figures such as Jon Hassell, Don Cherry and Catherine Hennix all taking instruction from Pran Nath during his lifetime.