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
Nihilist Spasm Band Oh Brian Dibb No Record
Nick Ayoub Quintet Report from Cairo The Montreal Scene
Jackie Mittoo Russian Satelite Stepping Tiger
Reign Ghost Enola Gay Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Athenians of Toronto 26 or 6 to 4 San Skoteiniazei
Dolores Claman Western Panorama Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Gordon Lightfoot Talking Freight Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Don Carrington Trio If I Were a Carpenter Makin' It Happen
Gargoyle Ian Young - A Childhood in South Africa: The Veld Near Ladybrand ST
Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Papa Bears Medicine Show O.K. ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Urine Trouble Year Zero
Plastic Cloud Shadows of Your Mind ST
Rascalz Really Livin' Really Livin'
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Rockadrome Good Dream Royal American 20th Century Blues
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Derek Scott Markle Daddy's 100 Proof ST
Twice Upon a Never Last Round Twice Upon a Never
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Robert Armes Bobcaygeon Songs for Icarus
Langley Schools Music Project The Long and Winding Road Wix - Brown Elementary School
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - Transport The First See Hear
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee Sonic Horses I
Spring Fever Spring Fever Woodstock
David Wiffen Times are Getting' Hard Live at the Bunkhouse
Jeremy Dormouse I Need a Friend Toad
Hugh Dixon Guitar Soco Guitar Solo (acetate)
Chantettes Freight Train Remember.....
The Amen Peter Zeus Carnivals and Cotton Candy b/w Peter Zeus
New Creation All is Well Troubled
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
Mystique No Return Black Rider
New Reality Yesterday a Child Was Born Demo Tape
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre th deacon bros in barbados Awake in th Red Desert
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
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Lewis Baloue It's a New Day Romantic Times
Papa Bears Medicine Show Soul Kitchen ST
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
EQ Funky Oasis Swellsville
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Blue Dye Home Grown Stuff
EQ Play The Back Swellsville
Marty Gillan If You Go Away Try A Little Kindness
British North American Act Only a Dream In the Beginning
Sweet Somethings The Wedding hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Live and Let Die James Bond 007
Stormbringer The Curse The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Compilation Stampeders - You Never Know Until You Try International Master Discovery Records
Joni Mitchell Be Cool Wild Things Run Fast (test pressing)
Blind Owl Hooked On You ST
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Ya Ya Chip Dip
Joker's Memory A Jokers Memory Part One ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Smile Maria Smile The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Calgary Range Riders Curly Hair Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Langley Schools Music Project Your Sixteen Wix - Brown Elementary School
Barbara Gryfe Colours of the Rainbow What the World Needs Now
D.O.A. Royal Police Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Canadian Beadles Think I'm Gonna Cry Three Faces North
Barbara Gryfe People (Lovers) Such As What the World Needs Now
Pepper Tree Man of Gold Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Catseye River Catseye
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre awake in the red desert Awake in th Red Desert
Hugh Dixon Green Green Grass of Home (vocals: Pat Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
Ronney Mitchell It's Your Thing The Five Man Cargo
Gentlemen of Horror Bank Sterling Death (EP) (alien cover)
Grimes Venus In Fleurs Geidi Primes
Pepper Tree The Gypsy Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Calgary Range Riders Rocky Mountain Rhythm Rocky Mountain Rhythm // Curly Hair
Gentlemen of Horror Rich Kids ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
The Reaction On The Beach On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
Other Half Summertime ST
Marty Gillan Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday Try A Little Kindness
VXN Could it Be ST
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Riverside Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Chantettes This Land is Your Land Remember.....
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
Jackie Mittoo Totally Together Stepping Tiger
Skarecrow I'm A Man Blues...Live at the Explorer
Langley Schools Music Project Calling Occupants Wix - Brown Elementary School
Jack London & the Sparrows Our Love has Passed ST
Skarecrow Standin' by the Keyhole Blues...Live at the Explorer
Sphex Time Time b/w Leaving This Crazy City
Art Snider Exodus Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Adanac Reply The Other One What Would It Be Like? b/w The Other One
Gordon Lightfoot Movin' Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Don Carrington Trio Breaking Up is Hard to Do Makin' It Happen
Mock Duck My Time Test Record

Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07

Rehearsal 1985-09

Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Haggath

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09 tape

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-09_tape track list_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_02

Haggath / Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07_tape cover_03

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape track list_02

Haggath / Rehearsal 1985-03-11 (rehearsal) DE21_tape

Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Strawberry Soul

I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

ST

Compilation

ST

GUESS289-color

Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 02

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 01

45-Something Evil-The Great Winnipeg Riot BACK

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Something Evil

Heat

45-Heat - Brighouse bw Rocking Chair VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

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