The Starters - White Caps

Adelia

An instrumental version of Cry Room, this recording loses the heavy drums and adds a sad piano melody. This recording is meant to provide background music to a scene dealing with sadness, loss, or loneliness.

Cry Room [Instrumental]

Uninhabited Space is a short (mostly) instrumental song that evokes a lack of resolution. It was written in mind of the end of an episode, when a character is conflicted, or the viewer is left with questions. This is a slow song with heavy guitar and vibrant synths and loops.

Uninhabited Space

This is a country-rock song about a break-up. When I first thought of the title, I was planning a lyric along the lines of "I Get Along Without You Very Well." Not being as clever as Hoagy, I ended up writing something of a lonesome country song.

Lyrics:

The absence nearly unnoticed
My thoughts are barely disturbed
When quiet leaves everything breathless
When memories are pallid and blurred

The green dot that appears by your picture
May remind me that you’re online
But I forget about you all the time

I forget about you all the time
When the darkness comes to clear my mind
Though these insistent dreams some nights are not unkind
I forget about you all the time

A reflection, a noise at the window
Was it you? Did you change your mind?
But I forget about you all the time

I forget about you all the time
When I drift and wander stupefied
You’re madly in my brain, but darling that’s a lie
I forget about you all the time
I forget about you all the time.

I Forget About You (All the Time)

I Forget About You (All The Time)

This is the instrumental version of the lonesome Americana song by the same name. I replaced the vocal with a low country and western guitar and added strings. I envision this music behind a scene about missing someone.

I Forget About You (All The Time) [Instrumental]

Cry Room is a Folk Rock song with an eerie tone. The folk acoustic guitar and the kick drum drive the song. A cry room is a place where parents can bring their noisy kids, and the lyrics are about not fitting in with the group and not living up to your potential.

Lyrics:

Artless disturbance

Disrupted service

Sacristy, the mystery

Away in the cry room



Substantiation

Or bring us damnation 

Still I believe but tug Mother’s sleeve

When I need the cry room



Born without a name

And agony cast as vanity

Who but you may mourn for everything they said you could be?



A choir of infants

A song or an instance?

A change of the sea, the faithful who flee

Away to the cry room

The dark of the cry room



Born without a name

Does agony mask your vanity?

Who but you may mourn for everything they said you could be?



A choir of infants

A song or an instance?

A change of the sea, the faithful who flee

Away to the cry room

Safe in the cry room

Safe in the cry room

Cry Room

Amateur Theatrics is an acerbic commentary on singles' life and nightclub pick-ups. The upbeat swing feel is a cross between '90s retro-indie swing, rock 'n roll, and '60s British rock.

Amateur Theatrics

Simple in Summer starts with a cozy childhood memory of spending summers at my grandparents' house. I always looked forward to falling asleep to the sound of rain on the vinyl siding.

Simple In Summer

Island

Versatile songwriter Blakely Berger blends expressive melodies with powerful lyrics. His music combines Rock, Folk, Blues, R&B, and Jazz to create unique but accessible vocal and instrumental songs. Blakely's music offers a perfect soundtrack for TV and movies, especially projects that stir the viewer's emotions. A performance graduate of Berklee College of Music, Blakely uses his improvisational skills to compose and expand his diverse songbook.

The 2013 release of the CD Soul Clap Its Hands takes the Motown and Memphis soul elements even further, both in writing style and production. If you know what to listen for, you’ll hear the musical references to Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, and Marvin Gaye. The Starters recorded and mixed Soul with the talented Pierre de Reeder, bassist of Rilo Kiley, who has recording, mixing, and producing credits with Jenny Lewis, She & Him, Vampire Weekend, and Julian Casablancas.

Peach/Turkey