Herewith is a short yet impressive bio to be going on with.
You can email Oz Fritz at oz@perfumerie.com. If you want his phone # we can arrange that too. Just let us know.

Oz Fritz has been a professional sound engineer for over 20 years working in both recording studio and live concert environments. He has collaborated on over 60 projects with producer Bill Laswell which included L. Shankar, Material, Ginger Baker, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Sonny Sharrock, William S. Burroughs and ambient translations of the music of Bob Marley.

Other studio credits include John Cale, D.J. Disk, Digital Underground, Jungle Brothers, Golden Palominos, Information Society, Meat Loaf, and Rick Derringer. His most recent studio projects include the Grammy Award winning Mule Variations by Tom Waits, Anti-Pop by Primus and the soon to be released Wicked Grin by John Hammond (produced by Tom Waits). He also mixed songs for a VH1 Storyteller’s show by Waits, and recorded and mixed half of Monsters and Robots by Buckethead. He recorded Havana Mood and Imaginary Cuba in Havana and engineered a couple of tracks on the gold record Lado B Lado A by the Brazillian pop group O Rappa.

Fritz has done many other on-site field recordings around the world including the acclaimed Apocalypse Across The Sky by the Master Musicians of Jajouka. He has also done multi-track recordings in West Africa (Jali Kunda, a history of Griot music) and the Australian Outback. Oz has engineered in state- of-the-art recording studios in Tokyo, London, Paris, Madras, Sydney, L.A. and New York. His live mixing credits (all front-of-house) include Tom Waits’ Get Behind the Mule tour, Painkiller with Bill Laswell and John Zorn, Jack de Johnette, Material (Laswell, Foday Musa Suso and Ginger Baker), Third Rail (James Blood Ulmer, Bernie Worrell, Laswell and others), Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra and, most recently, Charged featuring Laswell, Toshinori Kondo and Eraldo Bernocchi.

Oz also was chief engineer on the Flying Mijinko tour, a cultural exchange series of concerts sponsored by the Japanese government. This tour, put together by Akira Sakata and featuring Bill Laswell, Foday Suso, Anton Fier and many others, played throughout Central Asia, China, Mongolia and Japan. A double live cd documenting the trip was recorded and mixed by Oz - Our Man !.

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