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
Reign Ghost Reaching ST
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Stephanie Taylor Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Two Tones Copper Kettle Live at the Village Corner
Mantra Hopscotch (Part 2) (Dick Kelder) ST
Moonstone Black Blind Light ST
Ablaze Sadistic Dream Psychopath
Stephanie Taylor Windmills of Your Mind "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Expedition to Earth Time Time Time Expedition to Earth b/w Time Time Time
Garden Bower 18 Bricker Etc. w/ Trains
David Never Been In Love ST
B.C. Centennial Spots B.C. Centennial Song Cut No. 4 B.C. Centennial Song
Hugh Dixon Silly Bo Dilly (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Moonstone Focus ST
Blind Owl Spring Rain ST
Derek Scott Markle Daddy's 100 Proof ST
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
VXN No More Putting Love Aside b/w No More (picture sleeve)
Grimes Feyd Rautha Dark Heart Geidi Primes
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST
Huckle She's Coming Home Wild Blue Yonder
Brégent Mon frère Poussière Des Regrets
Mantra Dick's Song (Dick Kelder) ST
Sheila Graham The Tragedy of Butterfly McHeart ST
Ellison Satanic (Vincent Marandola, Richard Arcand) ST
Ardels Heads Up Rhythm & Blues
The Stonefield Morning Hours Deep Shades of Blue b/w Morning Hours
Hugh Dixon Esquire Shuffle (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Les 409 They Say They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Skeptical Eye Concealed Truth The Devil's Playground
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Ullulimat (I Think of You Always) People Of The Ice
Sheila Graham Little Green Apples ST
David Wiffen Mule Skinner Blues Live at the Bunkhouse
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
David Because I'm Black ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Jazz Compo No. 2 "The Beak" ST
Gypsy Hooked on a Memory Hooked on a Memory b/w The Market
Pat's People To-day Today
Perth County Conspiracy Lace and Cobwebs ST
High Park Let Go the Lifeline Let Go the Lifeline b/w Sewer Side
Two Tones Dark as a Dungeon Live at the Village Corner
Langley Schools Music Project Space Oddity Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Langley Schools Music Project The Long and Winding Road Wix - Brown Elementary School
Moosetracks Down Young Street ST
Liska Missing You Cry Out Loud
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Bird She Fly Low ST
November Grief Recuring Nightmares To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Les 409 Born in Chicago They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Madonna ST
Ray Griff Mama, This One's for You Canada "My Native Land"
Athenians of Toronto Opi Aniko San Skoteiniazei
Original Bones Tom Greene County Fair ST
Bear Paws Stand By Me Kitche-Ogamah
Raphaels Someday Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Skarecrow Rest Assured Blues...Live at the Explorer
Hugh Dixon Hot Pants (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Souls of Inspyration Of Lambs & Wolves ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) A Hum for Stevie Winwood Motherlove
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre leevin th electrik citee Sonic Horses I
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Stefan Gnys English Oaks English Oaks and Evangeline
Rockadrome Thirteen Miles Down Royal American 20th Century Blues
Ronney Mitchell Good Luck Charm - She's Not You The Five Man Cargo
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Jim Brown Wayne Carr - Timbral Changes The First See Hear
London Experimental Jazz Quartet My Dog's Tail is Longer Than Yours Invisible Roots
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Good Morning Blues ST
Don Carrington Trio A Song for My Father Makin' It Happen
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
Plastic Cloud You Don't Care ST
Compilation Buddy Victor - Didn’t' We Unselfconsciously Canadian
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Pot O' Gold Home Grown Stuff
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
Luke Simmons and His Blue Mountain Boys Howlin' at the Moon Just Waitin' // Howlin' at the Moon
Grimes Venus In Fleurs Geidi Primes
King Herbert And the Knights Sing a Simple Song With Jack Harden
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Only Takes a Minute "Coming Out"
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Lewis Baloue We Danced All Night Romantic Times
Vic Vogel Quiet Nights Montreal Bandleader
November Grief Psychotopsy To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Christmas Just Suppose ST
Derek Scott Markle Livin' Love ST
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Ticky Tock ST
Huckle I Surrender Wild Blue Yonder
No Exit No Exit ST

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

ST

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

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