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
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Edible Wallpaper Invisible Roots
Athenians of Toronto Make Me Smile San Skoteiniazei
Mystique Memories Black Rider
Stormbringer Evil Mind The Curse b/w Evil Mind
Ted Daigle Farewell Adelita Teenage Time
Bear Paws Kitch-Ogamah Kitche-Ogamah
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Modigliani ST
Opposite We Say Yeah Help Us Make It
Sikumiut (People of the Ice) Apirqsupagit (Marry Me Though I Am Not Rich) People Of The Ice
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Ronney Mitchell Tonight My Love, Tonight The Five Man Cargo
Jeremy Dormouse By the Way Toad
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Jeremy Dormouse Sometimes You Ain't Got Nothin Boy Toad
Mike Harris Chinese Breakdown Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
November Grief Exit Life (With China White) To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Squires Aurora The Sultan b/w Aurora
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Robert Armes 2-2 Blues Songs for Icarus
D.N.A. Seashell Because I Love You b/w Seashell
John Greenwood 3/4 Time My Sailboat and Me
Twice Upon a Never Go Where You Go Twice Upon a Never
Original Bones Rollin' Over ST
Matlows If You Were Mine If You Were Mine // Only You
VXN The Magic’s in Your Hands ST
Compilation Jim Wheeler and the Spokes - Secret Spy International Master Discovery Records
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Year Zero Year Zero
Huckle Get Down Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Jeremy Dormouse Just to Hear the Bells Toad
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
David Wiffen Climb the Stairs Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Jensen Sisters Fly Away With Me Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Emtidi Tr„ume Saat
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Grimes Grisgris Geidi Primes
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
Benge Money Man Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Rock and Soul Chip Dip
Papa Bears Medicine Show Golden Girl ST
Ray Griff That Old Montana Moon Canada "My Native Land"
Braineaters Kid Stuff Planet X
Dis Band Gone Dead Out Gone Dead Out
Catseye Days Gone By Catseye
Spring Fever Gimme Shelter Woodstock
Souls of Inspyration Dil Kusha (Heart's Happiness) ST
Stefan Gnys I Wish I Knew English Oaks and Evangeline
Lewis Baloue Romance For Two L'amour
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Blues in Your Room ST (psych cover)
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
Spring Long Long Way Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Georges Leningrad Bad smells Made In Taiwan
Spring Fever She's Lookin' Good Woodstock
Dolores Claman Wilderness West Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Phillip Werren Dance Music I Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Cargo Alisa Front Side, Back Side
Jensen Sisters I Can't Deny Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Sacrifice DE01_Sacrifice_Larry_s Hideaway (Toronto)_1985-03-25 Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
Jeff Moore & Friends For You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Sugluk Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard) Attama Onnikansigit (My Father's Story) b/w Sunamiq Pigumavit (What Do You Want?)/ Ajuinarasuasuga (I Tried Hard)
Dutch Mason C.C. Rider Half Ain't Been Told
Jolly Tambourine Man Lisa Burger Wheeeee! Demo
Huckle April Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Jensen Sisters You Lit the Fire (I Want Only You) Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
Ardels I'll Go Crazy Rhythm & Blues
Bonnie Scots Coulter's Candy Laugh and Cry
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Derek Scott Markle Southern Lady ST
Super 8 Corporation Set Me Free Set Me Free (Dill Smith)
Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys ‎ Sunrise Waltz Country and Rock & Roll Sound
Pat's People We Shall Overcome Today
Twice Upon a Never Butterfly of Love Twice Upon a Never
Huckle High For Sky Wild Blue Yonder
Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra Goldfinger James Bond 007
Ice On the Radio On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Silver Bells Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Nick Ayoub Quintet Blues for McHugh The Montreal Scene
November Grief Infanticide To Live...in This World of Chaos (demo)
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
Spring Fever Woodstock (Joni Mitchell) Woodstock
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Moose Head ST
Ronney Mitchell Time Alone Will Tell The Five Man Cargo
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Moosetracks Judith Wills ST
Roger Rodier Am I supposed to let it by again Upon Velveatur
Perth County Conspiracy Hindsight ST
Michel & the French Canadians Comfort Him Cause I Believe b/w Comfort Him (picture sleeve)
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia The Undertaker's Ball ST
Brazda Brothers Share With Love ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Child in Me Motherlove
Grimes Beast Infection Geidi Primes
Sheila Graham By the Time I Get to Phoenix ST
Gargoyle Barry Hunter - I Got That Feeling ST
Hugh Dixon Yellow Bird The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)

Ready to Rock b/w (with Gerry Fiander)

Gerry Fiander with Elvis Presley (History Van R&R Vol 1)

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison / Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)

Gone Dead Out

Dis Band

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 02

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 01

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out BACK

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out FRONT FOLDOUT

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

ST

Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

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