The story of Gula goes back to 1995, when the famous Tambourine studio needed another recording facility. The Tambourine crew settled for a space in what was originally built as a cigarette factory and purchased the Neve mixing console and the 2" MCI tape recorder. They named the place "gula studion", meaning the yellow studio, as the other Tambourine studio was more greenish.

Four years later the studio was bought by five in-house mercenaries. It was the Mopeds, a three-piece band that had recorded all their material in that studio complex alongside being session horn players on several Tambourine productions. It was also Marco Manieri, producer and sound engineer, who often worked at Tambourine but also elsewhere, and it was batti, he too a sound engineer and producer, whose whole recording experience so far had been Tambourine- and vintage-filtered.

The five new owners refurbished and reorganised some and kept some, bought a hard disc recording system, and started lifting the old studio to new heights. The name Gula was kept, as so much fine music was already connected to it. The choice of instruments and audio equipment was upgraded and renovated, and new spaces were created for a greater variety of sound and atmosphere.

After three successful years it was time to move to larger premises, and an old printing facility was chosen for its perfect size, generous ceiling height and its many windows.
The work of transforming it into the new Gula began in October 2001 and the first sessions took place in March 2002. By then, only the Mothership was finished, so the performers had to put up with walking through a building site between sessions. That situation continued in diminishing extent until October 2002 when refurbishing was finished.
However, we will never rest in our search for more cool furniture and art to keep the Gula atmosphere reaching even greater heights.

The steady flow of musicians and performers has since kept us very busy indeed, from the truly famous international stars and groups to the very indipendent, sometimes even unsigned bands and artists, and everything inbetween, that keep our work interesting and stimulating.
And they keep coming back for more.