Baba Yaga was actually a five-piece progressive rock band from the Rhine-Main region, named after a popular fairy-tale character from Slavic mythology. The founder and leader of this short-lived band project was the talented multi-instrumentalist Ingo Werner, a former member of the hard rock and psychedelic band My Solid Ground. Together with the singer and bassist Bernd Weidmann, who also contributed the lyrics, the two guitarists Winfried Schreiber and Jürgen Dyrauf, and the drummer and percussionist Joska Fiedermutz, he released his first album in 1974 in a very limited edition on the tiny German label Cycle.

He played electric piano, piano, Mellotron, synthesiser, organ, Clavinet, bassoon and gong, composed all the tracks and was also the producer at Dieter Dierks studio. Featuring Bernd Weidmann’s impeccable English vocals, the music was at the time compared to a number of British prog-rock bands such as Cressida, Aardvark, Egg and Arzachel. Echoes of the Canterbury scene can also be heard through jazzy influences. His creative use of synthesisers also resulted in some heavy psychedelic sounds as well as cosmic avant-garde timbres. Despite its commercial failure, the album Baba Yaga Featuring Ingo Werner quickly became a sought-after rarity. In the same year, he produced his second and final LP Collage, an experimental underground work.