Hopeful Tragedy Records is a 2007-formed, Quebec-based record label founded by Alex Henry Foster & Jeff Beaulieu.
The label was founded for promoting their band Your Favorite Enemies’ first EP, titled “And If I Was To Die In The Morning… Would I Still Be Sleeping With You”, which was released on June 1st, 2007. The second EP, “Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye” followed one year later. Nowadays, the label is also home to Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows, Sef Lemelin, as well as many artists from the underground EDM scene of Montreal.
In 2010, they moved to the outskirts of Montreal, where they turned a former catholic church into a professional recording studio. Wanting to act of their own accord, on their own terms, and wanting to be independent, as their DIY values dictate them, they have also established their own band merch factory & warehouse, a small lathe-cut vinyl plant, as well as video & podcast recording facilities and live streams installations inside the walls. Thus was born The Upper Room Studio.
Since its inception, the studio has been used to record the Juno-nominated album Between Illness and Migration by Your Favorite Enemies, the top-charting Windows in the Sky by Alex Henry Foster, Conrad Keely’s Original Machines, was also host to the Canadian Music Week in 2021 and to several live-broadcast.
The church, then devoid of congregants, suddenly became a place of a communion once again, lifted up by the music resonating between its walls.
Foster’s last musical offering before the end of the year is a powerful and immersive piece that blends progressive and hard-rock urgency with gothic-folk moments
UK progressive rock quartet L.O.E (Last of Eden) are releasing their highly anticipated album, Chiaroscuro, today. The release has already garnered significant support from outlets
Following the final stretch of The High Blooming Ritual tour — which featured sold-out shows and received praise from numerous European media outlets — Alex
Alex Henry Foster has just returned from his final concert of the year and is currently in Mexico, preparing for the year ahead. Before closing
We can never get enough of the artists we love. That’s why this is what we listen to non-stop in the office. The playlist blends genres like no other, a perfect fit for a misfit of a label like we are.
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One of the main reasons why we like YouTube so much is because of its story-telling potential. When the music you like now come alive visually too, could we really ask for more? Enjoy those videos by our HTR artists.
