Rarest Canadian Music

Rarest Canadian Music

Welcome to the deep end of the archive—an unparalleled collection of Canada’s most elusive, obscure, and impossible-to-find recordings. Private press LPs, vanished 45s, cassette-only gems, and forgotten studio experiments—all rescued from the brink of silence. Spanning every genre and region, RAREST CANADIAN MUSIC shines a light on the voices, visions, and vinyl that slipped through the cracks of mainstream history. Unearthed, digitized, and preserved—this is Canada’s hidden soundtrack.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Angels Hair Mother Love Suite: Intro; Allementry; Plunket Pastoral; Two Buried Texts Part I - Silver Lake Six; Two Buried Texts Part II - Silver Lake Six; A Little Love Poem for Your Lobes to Nibble On; Visitation; Cada Motherlove
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home Hell Bent: A Collection of Hard Instrumentals (Split with King Herbert & the Knights)
Evolution Expantion Blues Finding Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Randy Bishop Childhood Song to Christopher Robin I Sing A Soft Song
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Riverson Take Me (Rayburn Blake) ST
Legacy Gimme My Drugs Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Intermission Poetry Home Grown Stuff
Stompin' Tom Connors The World Goes Round (Expo 67 Montreal) Northland's Own
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
Clymaxe R. U. Cumming? R. U. Cumming? b/w Walkin' Blues
Ardels Linda Lou Rhythm & Blues
John Palmer Better Later Than Never Shorelines
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Jazz Widow Waltz Invisible Roots
Catseye Days Gone By Catseye
EQ Bring it On Swellsville
John Greenwood There is Peace My Sailboat and Me
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
David Fromager My Woman Left Me If What You Said Was True
Jarvis Street Revue Mr. Oil Man Mr. Oil Man
Les Bel Kanto A Kind of Break Down A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
British North American Act The World Would Understand In the Beginning
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Canadian Beadles Mojo Workout Three Faces North
Barbara Gryfe Jerusalem of Gold What the World Needs Now
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Fred Latremouille Tossin' and Turnin' Tossin' and Turnin' - Mashed Potato
The Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Sikumiut (Come Hear Us Play) People Of The Ice
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Barbara Gryfe Reunion With the Reserves What the World Needs Now
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Moosetracks Sophie ST
London Experimental Jazz Quartet My Dog's Tail is Longer Than Yours Invisible Roots
Intersystems track 06 (entire side 2) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
New Creation Yet Still Time Troubled
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Hank Snow I'm Movin' On Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Vicky and the Coins Old Fashioned Girl ST
Don And Adrian River Run You Down River Run You Down b/w Lord When I’m Down
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Ablaze Sadistic Dream Psychopath
Five Man Cargo Memories Memories b/w Why Can't I Get You
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Joe College & the Rulers It Ain't Allright (With Me) It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Rainbow ST
Huckle Flowers Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Walter Boudreau Boul Chaumont Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Sacrifice 1985-07-12_Sacrifice_Brutal Torture interview at Larry_s_Interviews Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Black Knight Born To Rock Master of Disaster (EP)
Dutch Mason Tighten Up On It Half Ain't Been Told
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra From Russia With Love James Bond 007
A Joint Effort Oh! Canada Final Effort
Lewis Baloue Cool Night In Paris L'amour
Sacrifice 1986-02_Terry Sadler interviews Sacrifice_Interviews Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) M.L.’s Dream Motherlove
September (1) Celebration Blue Lady b/w Celebration
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
EQ Play The Back Swellsville
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Dolores Claman Later Latin Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Terry & The Pyrates Someone Keep On Dancin' b/w Someone
Nick Ayoub Quintet Blues for McHugh The Montreal Scene
Sacrifice Burned at the Stake The Exorcism
Ray Griff Mama, This One's for You Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project Wild Fire Wix - Brown Elementary School
Northwest Company Get Away From it All Hard to Cry b/w Get Away From it All
Nihilist Spasm Band When in London Sleep at the York Hotel No Record
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Jim Brown Al Neil Trio - Lombardo The First See Hear
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Hook and Sling The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Moonstone Focus ST
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Skarecrow I Got to Have It Blues...Live at the Explorer
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Surfs U Rite Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
British North American Act Corduroy Coat In the Beginning
Dutch Mason Walkin' Blues Half Ain't Been Told
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
John Greenwood Blessed My Sailboat and Me
Boys Brigade Voices Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Plastic Cloud Shadows of Your Mind ST
C.B. & The Klassic Rockers Roll Over Beethoven Roll Over Beethoven b/w What'd I Say
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia O Come ST
Lewis Baloue It's a New Day Romantic Times
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Sunrise Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Dolores Claman Western Way Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Sound Sett I've Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding & Jerry Butler) 1966-1967

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

Christmas

ST

Christmas

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 02

Christmas-ST (Paragon) LABEL 01

Christmas - ST

French Fried Freedom

ST

Caribou

Caribou - ST LABEL 02

Caribou - ST LABEL 01

Caribou - ST BACK

Comments

Robert Williston

ok. thanks. I'll get those posted in the next little while....RW

Anonymous

oops - correct title of the Rockadrome album is "Royal American 20th Century Blues" - vk

Anonymous

I'd like to nominate: the first Cargo album (Front Side Back Side), bil bisset & mandan massacre (Awake in th Red Desert), the first two Intersystems albums, Jeff Moore & Friends (The Youngest Son), the second Reign Ghost album (featuring Lynda Squires), and Rockadrome (20th Century Royal American Blues) - vk