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
David Because I'm Black ST
Genèse Je crois en moi L'amour au soleil b/w Je crois en moi
Catseye Images Catseye
Ray Griff Canadian Pacific Canada "My Native Land"
Trevor Dandy It's a Long Journey Don't Cry Little Tree
Opposite Don't Say I Love You Help Us Make It
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Pleasure Sweets Motherlove
Spring Fever She Moves Me Woodstock
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Langley Schools Music Project I Get Around Wix - Brown Elementary School
Stompin' Connors Tom Little Wawa Northland's Own
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Twice Upon a Never Early in the Morning Twice Upon a Never
Bear Paws Can't You See Kitche-Ogamah
Randy Bishop I Sing a Soft Song I Sing A Soft Song
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she's a very good cook Awake in th Red Desert
Ray Griff The Last of the Winfield Amateurs Canada "My Native Land"
No Exit Do You Wanna Join? ST
Stefan Gnys Horizoning English Oaks and Evangeline
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Gravel Road ST
Jeremy Dormouse Suzanne Toad
Intersystems track 01 (entire side 1) Free Psychadelic Poster Inside
Lucio Agostini Skiing in Québec Once Upon a Hundred Years
Hugh Dixon Blues Stay Away From Me The MPH Band - The Best of 69-70 (unreleased acetate)
Lewis Baloue Let's Fall in Love Tonight L'amour
Billy O'Boie and the Country Jewels Little Rosa I Love My Gal b/w Little Rosa (picture sleeve)
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Nerve Preludes Penchant b/w Preludes
Stephanie Taylor Softly as I Leave You "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Mock Duck My Time Test Record
King Herbert And the Knights Lucille With Jack Harden
Something Evil The Great Winnipeg Riot Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
Reign Ghost Curio Shop ST
Braineaters Screw You Planet X
British North American Act See How Free In the Beginning
Media Endless Dream Girl I Want You b/w Endless Dream
Roger Rodier While my castles burning Upon Velveatur
The Organization Out in the Country ST
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Hop The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Athenians of Toronto Proud Mary San Skoteiniazei
Reign Ghost Pudsy's Parable Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Papa Bears Medicine Show Taking My Time ST
John Greenwood My Sailboat and Me My Sailboat and Me
Athenians of Toronto San Skoteiniazei San Skoteiniazei
Frank Motley & the Hitch-Hikers A Stranger in Your Own World The Hitch-Hikers featuring The Mighty Pope
John Palmer Cloud Shorelines
Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry
George Hauschild & Carole Penticton Penticton b/w But For Love
Bear Paws Lady of the Nite Kitche-Ogamah
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Take a Long Last Look (Joyce Hahn vocals) ST
EQ Hostile Swellsville
Rockadrome R.A.T.C.B. Reprise Royal American 20th Century Blues
Arcade Fire I'm Sleeping in a Submarine ST
Chantettes Harry Was a Communist Remember.....
Chantettes Hush Little Baby Remember.....
Randy Bishop Two Jugglers I Sing A Soft Song
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Summertime Chip Dip
Canadian Beadles Steady Guy Three Faces North
Chantettes Advertisement Song Remember.....
David Wiffen Slice of Life Live at the Bunkhouse
Jerry Palmer Head Over Heels in Love String of Hits
A Joint Effort Battle of New Orleans Final Effort
David Wiffen Driving Wheel Camp Fortune (split with Tex Lecor)
Opposite Le Telephone Help Us Make It
Mike Harris London Hornipie Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre fading era Sonic Horses I
Barbara Gryfe Who Am I What the World Needs Now
Barbara Gryfe One Child What the World Needs Now
David Take My Hand ST
Sound Sett Dead Sea (Bruce MacGregor modified) 1966-1967
Lucio Agostini Centennial Caravan Once Upon a Hundred Years
Echoes and a Dream Midnight Passion Echoes and a Dream
Garden Bower O Pretty Angela Pretty Angela Etc. w/ Trains
Jackie Mittoo Totally Together Stepping Tiger
Haunted Out of Time ST
John Palmer Return Shorelines
Jack London & the Sparrows Give My Love to You ST
Riverson Winter Garden (Brian Edwards) ST
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Squires The Sultan The Sultan b/w Aurora
Platinum Blonde No Regrets Hey Hey You b/w No Regrets
Dennis Walton Sweeter Love Sweeter Love
A Joint Effort Greed for Gold Final Effort
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Destroy the Nihilistic Picnic Invisible Roots
Rudy Hayden (Rudy Myhedyn) & the Country Boys Want Me a Woman Want Me a Woman b/w Blue Steel
Gentlemen of Horror Bank ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
The Fringe Inside Lookin' Out Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Count Baculis ST
Lord Ryur Heroes After Heroes Pact With The Sinner b/w Heroes After Heroes
British North American Act All the World is In Your Eyes In the Beginning
Lucio Agostini Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme) Once Upon a Hundred Years
Buck Lacombe Jazz Ensemble with Singers Joyce Hahn and Johnny Lasalle Wet Wash ST
Gentlemen of Horror God Knows you by Name ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Langley Schools Music Project Band On the Run Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Matlows Only You If You Were Mine // Only You
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Huckle Rolling River Wild Blue Yonder
Jeremy Dormouse hollywood heaven Toad Rejects
Royal Family Sometimes Sometimes b/w Solitude (picture sleeve)

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