I'm married to the wonderful Rob Blakeney. I've been recently recording my acapella album VERY slowly. I'm currently enjoying playing a bit o' bass in the Benjamin Blower band and I like to crop up here and there on the UotK albums with clarence the clazza and my trusty old vocal chords. If you like Where's Wally, here's something fun: The first person to spot all of my mini appearances on Zang material to date wins a........clarinet reed...a Cadbury's Creme Egg?...or something negotiable on winning. We'll call it 'Where's Selly and Clarence'. Maybe there should be a competition to come up with a title too.....? Answers on a post card please.
25th Jan 2012
FROM NEWS...
In describing his reworking of Selina Blakeney's beautiful choral version of The Killers' "On Top", Ray had this to say:
"I feel like I have just added a moustache to the Mona Lisa, and a white silk shirt and some shades."
Download/listen here:
http://soundcloud.com/dj-ray-vaughan/selina-blakeney-on-top
"I feel like I have just added a moustache to the Mona Lisa, and a white silk shirt and some shades."
Download/listen here:
http://soundcloud.com/dj-ray-vaughan/selina-blakeney-on-top
9th Jan 2012
FROM NEWS...
Happy New Year everyone!
To welcome in this new year, we have a FREE album for you all. Selina Blakeney's first full release on Zang: a collection of sketches recorded over 7 years in various bedrooms around the UK.
Download and listen to the album here.
To welcome in this new year, we have a FREE album for you all. Selina Blakeney's first full release on Zang: a collection of sketches recorded over 7 years in various bedrooms around the UK.
Download and listen to the album here.
9th Oct 2011
Hello folks! I'm very excited about this new website, doesn't it look smashing! And now I get my very own bloggy wog. Yay. I'm also excited about the upcoming releases to accompany it....including my acapella double EP which I started working on about...um....6 or 7 years ago! Crikey, I'm a bit of a tortoise where music is concerned it would seem. Along with the EPs there will be 2 videos to feast your eyes on, one involving lots of lovely snow and one created by Joel the Custodian and Evie Wonder (a father and daughter collaboration-beautiful!)-dates for all this to be confirmed....
.....then sometime next year will be the release of....MY ALBUM! In case you couldn't tell. I'm thrilled from the top of my head to my tippy toes about that. Mostly because, the process of making it has been so far, so much fun-and a new experience for me! I'm used to recording things very scrappily by myself, and although it's technically a Selina Blakeney album, produced by Greybeard, I think it's a real mixture of both of us and we have really enjoyed working on the songs together.
In other news....I have been becoming a bit of washboard fanatic..so much so....that I forced my husband to dress up as a washboarder....cruel I know....would you like to see.....?
.....then sometime next year will be the release of....MY ALBUM! In case you couldn't tell. I'm thrilled from the top of my head to my tippy toes about that. Mostly because, the process of making it has been so far, so much fun-and a new experience for me! I'm used to recording things very scrappily by myself, and although it's technically a Selina Blakeney album, produced by Greybeard, I think it's a real mixture of both of us and we have really enjoyed working on the songs together.
In other news....I have been becoming a bit of washboard fanatic..so much so....that I forced my husband to dress up as a washboarder....cruel I know....would you like to see.....?
20th Dec 2010
FROM NEWS...
The Blakeney's just cannot stop... they indulge their penchant for yuletide melody unashamedly.
After suffering a Home Alone-esque-coccyx-bashing fall on the ice, and hanging out with the locals down at the laundrette, Selina was filled with overwhelming sense of Christmas spirit and penned this free track for all to hear...
After suffering a Home Alone-esque-coccyx-bashing fall on the ice, and hanging out with the locals down at the laundrette, Selina was filled with overwhelming sense of Christmas spirit and penned this free track for all to hear...
6th Dec 2010
FROM NEWS...
We heard an iconic track, we made a remix. That then spawned another remix, a remix of a remix if you will.
Then it all went crazy - behind the creators back - suddenly remakes and covers were appearing, the track was alive!
Here they all are in - The Zang Family Tear Down And Build Up The Custodians Sacred
This genre hopping release contains work by Benjamin Blower, University of the King, Fiction Fight, Greybeard, Kevin Toms (Ickberg, UotK), The Army of the Broken Hearted and Selina Blakeney.
We at Zang love this!
Availble at on CD from the Zang Online Store
Or as digital download at iTunes, Amazon.co.uk, Boomkat, Play.com, Spotify...
Then it all went crazy - behind the creators back - suddenly remakes and covers were appearing, the track was alive!
Here they all are in - The Zang Family Tear Down And Build Up The Custodians Sacred
This genre hopping release contains work by Benjamin Blower, University of the King, Fiction Fight, Greybeard, Kevin Toms (Ickberg, UotK), The Army of the Broken Hearted and Selina Blakeney.
We at Zang love this!
Availble at on CD from the Zang Online Store
Or as digital download at iTunes, Amazon.co.uk, Boomkat, Play.com, Spotify...
13th Dec 2009
FROM NEWS...
The Zang Productions Ensemble's "Christmas Time Is Here Again" is released tomorrow... But for those that need some extra Christmassy-ness today, go and download last years free Christmas Album - "A Zang Christmas"
The free Christmas album has 10 tracks on it with an accompanying music video for the track "Jumping Home For Christmas" with can be watched HERE
The free Christmas album has 10 tracks on it with an accompanying music video for the track "Jumping Home For Christmas" with can be watched HERE
4th Oct 2009
FROM NEWS...
This month Greybeard and Selina Blakeney have produced a lo-fi / choral track for you all.
You can listen to it now in the Free Download section.
Mr. Z
You can listen to it now in the Free Download section.
Mr. Z
1st Dec 2008
FROM NEWS...
Last year we tried to get some Christmas bits together, but we ran out of time! We have been feeling bad all year and don't want to get coal again (it's not that fun, very messy and has no flashing lights!)... So, to make it up to you all we have a real treat, an early Christmas present for you all...
A FREE Christmas album containing 10 tracks, some traditional, some original, some more contemporary...
You can download the whole album right now for FREE in the Free Download section. There is even a cover for you to print, cut and glue together...
Merry Christmas
Mr. Z
A FREE Christmas album containing 10 tracks, some traditional, some original, some more contemporary...
You can download the whole album right now for FREE in the Free Download section. There is even a cover for you to print, cut and glue together...
Merry Christmas
Mr. Z
