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
VXN Running Out ST
Skarecrow Bring It On Home to Me Blues...Live at the Explorer
Evolution Expantion Blow Up Blow Up b/w Blues Finding
Bloodstone Toronto Toronto b/w I'm Your Man
Glenn Dixon Sunset Reflections
Souls of Inspyration Eyes of Nature ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Phil Phil
Matlows If You Were Mine If You Were Mine // Only You
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
King Herbert And the Knights You Make Me So Very Happy With Jack Harden
Opposite Land of 1000 Dances Help Us Make It
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Air I Breathe "Coming Out"
New Reality Here He Goes Demo Tape
Compilation New Brands - Ace Up His Sleeve International Master Discovery Records
Stefan Gnys You're Not The Only One English Oaks and Evangeline
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Design Variations The Optic Earful
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
Georges Leningrad Bad smells Made In Taiwan
Jeremy Dormouse Apple Annie Toad
Jeremy Dormouse October Morning Toad
EQ Help a Bruva Out Swellsville
Robert Armes Woman in Toronto Songs for Icarus
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - I've Grown Accustomed to His Face Unselfconsciously Canadian
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Pepper Tree The Gypsy Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
No Exit Downtown Weekend ST
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore Western Caravan (split with Rosalie Allen and Sons of Pioneers) (EP) (picture sleeve)
Glenn Dixon Waiting for the Dreams to Come Reflections
David Wiffen Abilene Live at the Bunkhouse
Christmas Jungle Fabulous ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle I'll Take Romance ST
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck No one in Particular Home Grown Stuff
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre an ode to d a levy Awake in th Red Desert
Chantettes Sail Away Remember.....
Trevor Dandy Sometimes Don't Cry Little Tree
Dolores Claman Odd Couplet #2 Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Mike Harris Norwegian Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
King Herbert And the Knights Amen With Jack Harden
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Michael Ratherford Hard Drugs Hard Drugs
Arcade Fire The Woodland National Anthem ST
Papa Bears Medicine Show Wait and See ST
Heat Rocking Chair Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Haunted Out of Time ST
Jack London & the Sparrows If You Don't Want My Love ST
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
New Creation Sodom and Gomorrah Troubled
John Palmer Seedling of Light Shorelines
Huckle High For Sky Wild Blue Yonder
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Langley Schools Music Project To Know Him is to Love Him Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Huckle Gather The Children Wild Blue Yonder
Pepper Tree Blue Caravan Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Vicky and the Coins Five Foot Two ST
Fyre David's Song David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Bent Wind Goin' to the City Sussex
Robert Armes Fallen Star Songs for Icarus
Nerve The Nerve - Penchant (2005 live recording by the Smarties) Penchant b/w Preludes
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Riverson Stoney Day (Brian Edwards, Lisa Eisenhardt (Lisa Hartt)) ST
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Rascalz Gal Business Really Livin'
Mock Duck Sitting on Top of the World Test Record
Fyre New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Marty Gillan Try a Little Kindness Try A Little Kindness
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone That's the Way I Like It "Coming Out"
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Billy Martin Watermelon Man Strawberry Soul
Jim Brown Lionel Kearns - The Woman Who The First See Hear
Medium Stars ST
Plastic Cloud Face Behind the Sun ST
EQ Come Alive Swellsville
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Stefan Gnys Soliloguy English Oaks and Evangeline
Brazda Brothers Nature ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Groovin ST
Perth County Conspiracy Hindsight ST
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Comin' Home The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Nick Ayoub Quintet Montreal East The Montreal Scene
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
EQ Come Alive (King Otto Remix) Swellsville
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Braineaters Modern Man Planet X
Souls of Inspyration Dil Kusha (Heart's Happiness) ST
Roger Rodier Listen to these chords I play (Celeste) Upon Velveatur
Willie Dunn Ballad of a Metis Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'

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

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

1987-05-24_Sacrifice + Ablaze + Faulkwolf_Bathurst Theatre (Toronto)_orange original flyer reduced

ST

ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Sussex

Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

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