| Imaginary Day | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 7, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | Spring 1997 | |||
| Studio | Right Track, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 63:49 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Imaginary Day is the ninth studio album by the Pat Metheny Group. It was released in 1997 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was strongly inspired by world music from Iran and Indonesia, and won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. The song "The Roots of Coincidence" won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance; critic Richard Ginnell of AllMusic described the song as a dramatic departure for the group: "[an] out-and-out rock piece with thrash metal and techno-pop episodes joined by abrupt jump cuts."
The album cover design by Stefan Sagmeister uses a simple pictographic substitution cipher for the name of the group and the title of the album.
Official DVD recorded live at the Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California, USA in July 1998, released in 2001.
This album was also made available on DVD-Audio 5.0 multichannel, surround sound.
- ^ Ginell, Richard S. "Imaginary Day". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 995. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.