Nauseef briefly toured the
United Kingdom in 1972 as tour member of
The Velvet Underground before joining
Elf, fronted by
Ronnie James Dio, in early 1975, but the group disbanded shortly afterwards. Accompanied by Elf
keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, Nauseef joined ex-
Deep Purple singer
Ian Gillan in his new
jazz fusion group, simply named the
Ian Gillan Band. After three albums, Gillan broke the group up in 1978. Nauseef stood in for
Thin Lizzy drummer Brian Downey for two international tours, and then joined
Gary Moore's short-lived band G-Force. During the 1980s, Nauseef moved away from rock music towards a range of styles, including
Javanese and
Balinese gamelan, as well as music of
Indian and
Ghanaian origin. He has released several solo albums and worked with other musicians in a variety of projects. Artists with whom Nauseef has performed and/or recorded include
Joachim Kühn,
Gary Moore,
Jack Bruce,
Bill Laswell,
Glenn Hughes,
Rabih Abou-Khalil,
Trilok Gurtu,
Steve Swallow,
L. Shankar,
Hamza El Din, The Velvet Underground,
Joëlle Léandre,
Ikue Mori,
Ronnie James Dio,
Markus Stockhausen, Kyai Kunbul (Javanese gamelan),
Andy Summers,
Tony Oxley,
Tomasz Stanko, Kenny Wheeler,
Edward Vesala's "Sound and Fury",
Thelma Houston,
David Torn,
The Ladzekpo Brothers (Ghanaian music and dance),
Charlie Mariano,
The Gamelan Orchestra of Saba (Balinese gamelan),
Kudsi Erguner,
Philip Lynott,
George Lewis,
Evan Parker and
Lou Harrison. Throughout most of these projects Nauseef has collaborated with
Walter Quintus. Nauseef attended the
California Institute of the Arts where he studied Javanese gamelan with
K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat, Balinese gamelan with
I Nyoman Wenten, North Indian Pakhawaj drumming with Pandit
Taranath Rao, North Indian music theory with Pandit
Amiya Dasgupta, Ghanaian drumming and dance with Kobla and Alfred Ladzekpo, Dzidzorgbe Lawluvi and C.K. Ganyo, and 20th Century Western percussion techniques and hand drumming with
John Bergamo. He also studied frame drum techniques of the Middle East, India and the Caucasus with
Glen Velez. It was also at CalArts that Nauseef began a very creative and productive relationship, which continues to this day, with musical "alter ego", guitarist
Miroslav Tadic. Together, they have composed, recorded and produced various styles of music in settings ranging from duo to large ensembles with musicians from around the world. Nauseef has also worked as a producer. In addition to his own recordings, he has produced many records of various types of music including modern experimental forms as well as traditional forms. Traditional music productions include numerous recordings of traditional Balinese and Javanese music, including the award-winning "The Music of K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat" which was recorded in
Java and features Wasitodiningrat's compositions. Other examples include the Balinese ensemble recordings "Gamelan Batel Wayang Ramayana" and "Gender Wayang Pemarwan" which were recorded in
Bali. These and other recordings of Indonesian music were produced for the CMP 3000 "World Series" with the production team of Kurt Renker And Walter Quintus. The "Worlds Series", which Nauseef was instrumental in establishing, was founded by CMP owner and producer Kurt Renker and produces recordings from a variety of non-western countries including
India,
Turkey,
Korea,
Indonesia and others. ==Discography==