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
Haunted Out of Time ST
Spring Fever Spring Fever Woodstock
Perth County Conspiracy I Shall be Released ST
Mock Duck Sitting on Top of the World Test Record
Lewis Baloue Don't Stop It Now Romantic Times
Arcade Fire No Cars Go ST
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Chip's Groove Chip Dip
Jeremy Dormouse freight train Toad Rejects
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Never Mind My Job ST (psych cover)
Les 409 They Say They Say b/w Born in Chicago (acetate)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Don't Despair (Jazz Version) ST
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Bonnie Scots Lonely Prison Cell Laugh and Cry
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Only Takes a Minute "Coming Out"
Stompin' Tom Connors Movin' On To Rouyn Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
Marty Gillan Time and Love Try A Little Kindness
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Count Baculis ST
New Reality Lost Never Found Demo Tape
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she, still and curling Awake in th Red Desert
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
VXN Putting Love Aside ST
Twice Upon a Never Butterfly of Love Twice Upon a Never
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding My Favourite Things Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Compilation David Foster - Listen to Daddy Unselfconsciously Canadian
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Boys Brigade Black + White Live Off-The-Floor Demo
Walter Boudreau Danse Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Royal Family Solitude Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)
Garden Bower This Woman (live) Etc. w/ Trains
Burgundy Ex-Lovin' Man Lady Blue b/w Ex-Lovin' Man
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Pat's People Michael Today
Sound Sett Just in Case You're Wonderin (David Byngham & Glynn Bell, The Ugly Ducklings) 1966-1967
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Derek Scott Markle A Better Way ST
Mike Harris Wednesday Night Waltz Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Michael-Jon Rosenberg The High ST
Stefan Gnys You're Not The Only One English Oaks and Evangeline
British North American Act Joe Cool In the Beginning
The Shouter's In The Evening In The Evening b/w Can I Help It
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Norris Vines and The Luvlines Feel The Warm Give In b/w Feel The Warm
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Ray Griff If it Hadn't Been for Music Canada "My Native Land"
Dutch Mason Polk Salad Annie Half Ain't Been Told
A Joint Effort Tequilla Sunrise Final Effort
David Descension ST
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) A Mic In A Fist Year Zero
VXN Running Out ST
Uncertain Wipeout Land of 1000 Dances b/w Wipeout
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
Nihilist Spasm Band Dog Face Man No Record
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Teenage Head Picture My Face Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Reprise Royal American 20th Century Blues
Bent Wind Riverside Sussex
John Greenwood The Princess My Sailboat and Me
Midnight Angels I'm Sufferin' I'm Sufferin' b/w (I Wish) In the Moonlight (picture sleeve)
Jackie Mittoo Totally Together Stepping Tiger
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny
Pat's People Our Father Today
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
Circle C Burn Burn (promo)
Liska All My Love Cry Out Loud
Sweet Somethings Do You Wanna Dance hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Chantettes Wayward Wind Remember.....
Opposite Ebony Eyes Help Us Make It
David Fromager Concrete City Life If What You Said Was True
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
Stefan Gnys The Pleasant Land of Counterpane English Oaks and Evangeline
Jerry Palmer Travelin' Shoes String of Hits
George Cook Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am Why Have You Left Me the Way I Am // On the Trail of Sunset Valley
Stompin' Tom Connors Sudbury Saturday Night Northland's Own
Stephanie Taylor Marion's Theme (Dou Riley) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Eric's Madness Invisible Roots
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra On Her Majesty's Secret Service James Bond 007
Other Half Warm Summer's Night ST
Brégent Dans ma maison Poussière Des Regrets
Haggath Live Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07 Rehearsal Ildiko's, Toronto, 1986-02-07
Braineaters Modern Man Pt 2 Planet X
Reign Ghost Mother's Got Troubles Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Thornton Rogers J. Out in the West Out in the West b/w The Blues
Lewis Baloue Even Rainbows Turn Blue L'amour
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Two Tones The Fox Live at the Village Corner
Sugluk Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Stompin' Tom Connors The Maritime Waltz Northland's Own
EQ Inner Thoughts Swellsville
Echoes and a Dream Life is a Love Song Echoes and a Dream
Ronney Mitchell Sandy The Five Man Cargo
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Other Half Summertime ST
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
David House of the Rising Sun ST
Les Bel Kanto A Kind of Break Down A Kind of Break Down b/w Dors (promo)

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Boys Brigade - Mannequin Demo

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-09

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Haggath - Rehearsal 1985-03-11

Mississauga, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dolores Claman - Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes

Vancouver, British Columbia → Toronto → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Billy Martin - Strawberry Soul

Harlem, New York, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Jimmy Apostle & the Willows - I Love Ya Honey b/w Lost Love

FEATURED

Ellison - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Perth County Conspiracy - ST

Stratford, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Heat - Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

FEATURED

Something Evil - Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Kings - Switchin'

Vancouver, British Columbia; Oakville, Ontario

FEATURED

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

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Barrie, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joker's Memory - ST

Ottawa, Ontario

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ST

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bent Wind - Sussex

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra - James Bond 007

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - ST

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Reign Ghost - Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

Oshawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone - "Coming Out"

Philadelphia, USA → Florida, USA → Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

The Chessmen - Mustang b/w Meadowlands

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

London Experimental Jazz Quartet - Invisible Roots

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diodes - Raw / War (split with The Curse)

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

D.N.A. - Because I Love You b/w Seashell

Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Live Off-The-Floor Demo

Mannequin Demo

Boys Brigade

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

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