What is Kuohu and who's there?

The Finnish word kuohu means white water. Water so strong it can shape stone and produce power. But that's not all it means. It can also be an outburst of feelings or when things are happening with great intencity. Oh, and it's the sparkling of Champagne too! So a very festive and powerful name for a music studio!

Kuohu Studios was originally founded in 2019 close by to an old water power plant at Vanhankaupunginkoski. A few years later producer and mixing engineer Oona Kapari's longing for a floating recording room grew so big that she decided to move to new studio premises in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. The new Kuohu Studios, opened in 2022, quickly gained popularity, especially amongst women and nonbinary producers and songwiriters. Ever since then Kuohu Studios has been collaborating with a variety of indie artists and bands, including clients such as Elsi Sloan, Mia Hafrén, Iiro Ollilla, Päivi Hirvonen, Juurakko, Eroma and Anna Lumikivi. Studiomanager Kapari often sits in the control room as an in house engineer, and the other two rooms are used by a variety of songwriters and producers. Now in 2025 Kuohu Studios will grow even more to become a place of gaining new strenght in community and skill.

Kuohu Studios answered to a deep need for safer spaces in the music industry and now holds that reputation with a high sense of responsibility and pride.