One of Terry Riley's teachers was Hindustani classical singer Pandit Pran Nath. He is a teacher of the Kirana gharana (school) that taught the khyal genre of Indian classical music (with every gharana having its own particularities). Pran Nath studied the form for over twenty years under his guru before being encouraged to leave the school to help extend and keep the form alive. He started work in the thirties for All India Radio and also worked as a visiting professor at Mills College until his death. He believed in the power of live performance and rarely recorded. Pran Nath's first recordings was of two ragas released as Earth Groove in 1968.
Here is the discography surrounding Pandit Pran Nath's debut album:
Earth Groove
"Raga Asavari" by Pandit Pran Nath
Pass the Headphones!!
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