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| Hemophiliac | ||||
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| Released | June 2002 | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde | |||
| Length | 128:20 | |||
| Label | Tzadik TZ 0001 | |||
| Producer | John Zorn | |||
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Hemophiliac is a limited edition album of improvised experimental music by John Zorn, Ikue Mori and Mike Patton. The album was released as a limited edition 2-CD set of 2,500 copies, personally autographed by Zorn, Patton and Mori, on Zorn's Tzadik label. [1]
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
The Allmusic review by Dean McFarlane awarded the album 4 stars stating "what a pity this monstrous work was not made more widely available, as it contains some of the more ferocious performances of free improvisation that the members of this trio have put to record throughout their disparate and eclectic careers." [2]
All compositions by Mori, Patton & Zorn
Disc One
Disc Two
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