ΥΠΕΡΗΧΟΣ (Ypérichos) is a record label focused on field recordings, acoustic memory, and the textures of lived experience. It is an effort initiated by two friends drawn to the resonances of folk soundscapes — to the echoes of rituals, songs, voices, and atmospheres that linger on the periphery. Their shared sensibility led them to embark on this journey, seeking not only to explore but to make present the sonic, visual, and performative worlds of folk pageantry.
Founded with an ear toward the peripheral, the label seeks to preserve sound not as product, but as encounter. Lo-fi recordings, analog formats, and minimalist presentation define its sensibility. The label serves as a space for documenting and transmitting these encounters: seasonal festivals, ecstatic gatherings, masked processions, and other ephemeral rituals of communal life.
It is an archive in progress — grounded in field recordings, shaped by careful observation, and expanded through image and text. Rooted in the auditory, yet attentive to the visual and the written, ΥΠΕΡΗΧΟΣ is a commitment to publish ethnographic time as experience — layered, subjective, and analog.