Waniyetula (Sioux for Winter) are a band from Frankfurt (am Main) Germany founded in 1969.
After being more or less a cover band (Beatles and similar stuff) they started writing their own material.
In 1974 they won a band contest of a big brewery in Dortmund, and won the interest of well kown (in Germany) producer
Dieter Dierks.
Their first album "Nature's Clear Well" was recorded in 1975, but no lable could be found for a release.
Frustrated they desided to do something more original at the begining of 1976 and developed a concept for
an album of songs based on Edgar A. Poe's novels.
As they were writing the songs they were hit by the Alan Parsons Project releasing an album based on the same idea
and quit the whole thing.
In 1978 a lable in the USA was found for "Nature's Clear Well", but unkown to the band the lable changed the name of the
band to "Galaxy" on the LP. The LP was also released in Europe later with a different cover.
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US Version
European Version
The band tried to support the LP by changing their name to Galaxy, but they weren't really succsesfull.
In 1983 they released (under the the name Waniyetula again) a private issued LP "Dreams within a Dream".
The LP went down rather unnoticed (exept for being an expensive collectors item).
After this the band was almost forgotten and just some obscure prog band, which was falsley widley regarded as
a swiss band (and still is on Prog Archives and Youtube).
But the band still exists and released alive album (totally unnoticed) in 2012.
There are also plans for a new album, so watch out.
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