Songs and Rituals in Real Time

Songs and Rituals in Real Time is a double LP album by Tim Berne released by Empire Productions (USA) in 1982 and re-released on CD as a part of The Empire Box on Screwgun Records (USA) in 1998. The album was Recorded live at Inroads, New York City on July 1, 1981. It features Berne in a quartet with tenor saxophonist Mack Goldsbury, bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Paul Motian.

Songs and Rituals in Real Time
Studio album by Tim Berne
Released	1982
Recorded	July 1, 1981
Genre	Avant-garde jazz Downtown music
Label	Empire Productions (USA, 1982) / Screwgun (USA, 1998)
Producer	Tim Berne
Tim Berne chronology
Spectres (1981) Songs and Rituals in Real Time (1982) The Ancestors (1983)

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Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

Tim Berne on inviting Paul Motian to play:

"I met Paul Motian when he was doing a gig with the bass player Saheb Sarbib. And I just went up to him and I asked him. And to this day I have no idea how I got the nerve. But he sort of said 'Yeah, man, send me something,' or whatever. I may have given him a record or sent him a tape. I called him up a couple of weeks later and asked him if he listened to it, and he said 'No.' But then he said, 'Yeah, whatever, I’ll do the gig.' And that was this gig that turned into this record. It was live at this place Inroads. We rehearsed a lot, we played two sets, recorded it, and that’s Songs and Rituals in Real Time: The first time we ever played together. I remember Bill DeArango, the guitar player, was sitting in the front row. It was a kind of special gig. I mean it was really pretty cool."[3]