1985-1986
The first Veneitä ensemble was founded by M. Taanila and H.S. Tuominen in the early 1985. During the summer a handful of material was recorded together with T. Palvanen (percussion) and P. Koskinen (piano): 'Kadulta mereen', 'Pronssi', '8 astetta' and 'Metodi'. By autumn the line-up was back to a duo again.
Sometime during the summer of 1986, 'Haag' was recorded together with J.Soivio. By autumn -86 all activities were elsewhere.
1990-1994 and 2004-2005
At the beginning of the '90s the name Veneitä was re-activated when H.S. Tuominen, J-P Härkä and Jukka Vaissi began rehearsing at Rantakasarmi in Suomenlinna.
The ensemble released two cassette-albums, Ansari (1993) and Kantikas (1994), but by that time had also started drifting into undefined inactivity.
After a pause of ten years, Veneitä began a new recording project in 2004, and from that material released Hyöty (2005).