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
Don Carrington Trio Higher Makin' It Happen
Brazda Brothers Blooming Flowers ST
New Creation No Excuse Troubled
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding The Bell that Couldn't Jingle Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Ray Griff Alberta My Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Pat's People Get To-Gether Today
Haunted Horror Show ST
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Moonstone Hope You Come See ST
Skarecrow Wine Wine Wine Blues...Live at the Explorer
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Chantettes Bamboo Remember.....
Don Carrington Trio A Song for My Father Makin' It Happen
Jeremy Dormouse blackberry quadrille Toad Rejects
Stephanie Taylor Windmills of Your Mind "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Bonnie Scots This Land Is Your Land Laugh and Cry
Jeremy Dormouse Small Man Toad
Dutch Mason Gonna Move to the Country Half Ain't Been Told
Other Half In Passing ST
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
Brégent Je t'Aime Poussière Des Regrets
Athenians of Toronto San Skoteiniazei San Skoteiniazei
Two Tones Kilgarry Mountain Live at the Village Corner
Stompin' Tom Connors Luke's Guitar The Birth of the New Dragon Mine b/w Luke's Guitar
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Country Four Blues Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Benge Money Man Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
April Wine Shotdown The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Randy Bishop Wonderful Angel I Sing A Soft Song
Subhumans Death to the Sickoids Death to the Sickoids b/w Oh Canaduh
Dutch Mason Lights Are On But Nobody's Home Half Ain't Been Told
The Reaction The Kid's Arrived On The Beach b/w The Kid's Arrived (picture sleeve)
John Palmer Solitude Shorelines
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
Sheila Graham Stormy ST
Catseye It's a Long Way Catseye
Hugh Dixon What's New The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Original Bones Rollin' Over ST
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
New Creation Songs to Sing Troubled
Opposite Ebony Eyes Help Us Make It
Cyrus Eden You Came For Me First Offense (EP)
Pat's People Richman's Spiritual Today
Marty Gillan Home from the Forest Try A Little Kindness
Langley Schools Music Project You're so Good to Me Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Siggy Magic & the Hey-Hoe Band Tooth Decay Commercials For Free (EP)
Lewis Baloue So Be in Love With Me Romantic Times
Twice Upon a Never Last Thing On My Mind Twice Upon a Never
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Breaking Others Hearts Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Sugluk I Didn't Know Fall Away/ I Didn't Know b/w Ballad of the Running Girl/ Little Boy
Brégent Le chien Poussière Des Regrets
Ted Daigle Ruby Ruby b/w When You Said You All
Trevor Dandy Lord I Come to Thee Don't Cry Little Tree
Legacy Come With Me Come With Me b/w Gimme My Drugs
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Ron Martin Special With Mustard Invisible Roots
No Exit Energy Crisis ST
New Creation Dig! (The Origin of Man) Troubled
Souls of Inspyration Stranger ST
Ellison Seal a Beam Bow (Vincent Marandola) ST
Reign Ghost Eyes Knows, So Does Ears ST
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre whn i first came to vancouvr Sonic Horses I
Lucio Agostini Voyageur Canoe Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Give In Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Huckle Gabriola Day Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra James Bond Theme James Bond 007
Vicky and the Coins In Old Shanty Town ST
No Exit Bureaucracy ST
Michael-Jon Rosenberg Dreams in Fall ST
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Nothing Beautiful ST
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
A Joint Effort Bus Song Final Effort
Marty Gillan I Ain't Done Yet (Theme from the T.V. Series "The Manipulators") (Bobby Hales) Try A Little Kindness
Liska Coming Home Cry Out Loud
Sweet Somethings Pot of Gold hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Bonnie Scots Scotland 'Ra Brave Laugh and Cry
Mike Harris Golden Slippers Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Siqinimi Mallilunga (I Follow the Sun) People Of The Ice
49th Parallel She Says She Says b/w Citizen Freak (test pressing)
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Only Takes a Minute "Coming Out"
Ronney Mitchell Just a Little Bit More Baby The Five Man Cargo
April Wine Gimme Love The Whole World's Going Crazy (test pressing)
Mike Harris Patty the Coon Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
David Little Boys ST
The Organization Happiness ST
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers Smile Maria Smile The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
Hugh Dixon Hugh's Hangout (Dixon) The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Compilation New Brands - Ace Up His Sleeve International Master Discovery Records
Stompin' Tom Connors Little Wawa Northland's Own
Lucio Agostini Skiing in Québec Once Upon a Hundred Years
Cargo Say Goodbye Front Side, Back Side
The Mix Break Up Shake Up Break Up Shake Up (EP) (picture sleeve)
Rascalz How the Story Goes Really Livin'
Jim Brown Bp Nichol - Another Day Older The First See Hear

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

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