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.
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Following a series of successful gigs in the UK and the release of their first single, After All Is Said & Done that capped 10K
Following the success of her 5th album Halcyon, which reached the #1 position on the PalmarèsADISQ charts and remained on the Canadian iTunes Charts for
Following the acclaimed release of his first single I’m Afraid — which reached #1 on Prog Magazine’s Tracks of the Week and received numerous notable
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.
