50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6

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50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 24, 2004
RecordedSeptember 1, 2003
Length49:50
Label Tzadik TZ 5006
Producer John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
(2004)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
(2004)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7
(2004)
Hemophiliac chronology
Hemophiliac
(2002)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
(2004)

50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6: Hemophiliac is a live album of improvised music by Mike Patton, Ikue Mori and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic site rated the album 4 stars. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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2."+(=&)+"7:02
3."\/\/\///\/\/\/\\/\///\\/\"4:43
4."‡*§†*§‡"9:33
5."<<-^->>"9:45
6."´·ˇ,’”¨¸˛«˜¬˘˙»°˝"6:14
7."[]≈[]≈[]≈[]"5:01

Source: [1]

Personnel

Source: [1]

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