Mario and Cocó, two Peruvian guys who had already met each other in the underground ambients in their country of origin, set up Silvania in Valencia in 1990 with an aim to mixture pop and sound innovation. Looking at their all-time idols (Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, Zombies and Byrds) they crafted a style in which the then overrated electric guitar passed on to become a generator of plenty of echoes and weird sounds through its technological manipulation, joined to ellaborated pop melodies.
As a result of this first years they got their debut album "Miel Nube Hiel" (1992), a maxi-single which would anticipate their increasing liking for new pop structures and "En Cielo de Océano" (1993), their first LP on Elefant Records. They released their records to critical acclaim, and played gigs all over the country while they prepared their second album, "Paisaje III" (1994), the precious design of which, as on all their other releases, has an important participation of their own aesthetic ideas. They have such a clear concept of what Silvania is, that not only sound, but the image of the band is totally controlled by themselves. Musical-wise, electronics get more and more space in their creative method, giving as a result a record of very different sides in which you can find winding melodies and delicate acoustic passages, along with electronic avant-garde.
In February 1995 they record the single "Avalovara", in which guitars disappear virtually in favour of an exhaustive studio experimentation. Later on they would participate in the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim with a set based exclusively on noise and sequencers. They're called for the techno nights at the Barcelona Acció Musical (BAM) festival, in which they present an only 40 minutes piece between analogic electronics and most rhythmic isolationism, and they also played at Sonar, one of the most advanced, best festivals in the world's electronic scene. By the same time they were preparing their remixes album, called "Delay Tambor", which is undoubtedly one of the more precise artefacts existing in the market to show the present and future of the world's musical avant-garde, besides of strengthening Silvania as well deserved members of that restricted elite of sound risk scientists. "Delay Tambor" is a remixes record featuring some of the riskier electronic acts of the present day working for Silvania: Autechre, Seefeel, Scanner, Scorn and Locust were chosen to remix songs from Silvania's first two albums, "En cielo de océano" (1993) and "Paisaje III" (1994); besides of the remixes, the record features three previously unreleased tracks by the duo.
After the release fo the single "Aero", and their latest maxi-single "Suprematiz", Silvania came back with their 3rd album, "Juniperfin". Ever more experimental and risky, Cocó and Mario have created a work of emotional, obscure electronic music, formally rule-breaking and daring, but with a pop heart in the inside.
In 1997 they took part in a show organized by the Gijon Film Festival, one of the most risky and innovative film acts in the country. The idea was to call some of the most important electronic Spanish artists -Madelman, Vanguard, IPD, Pez- to create live soundtracks for several avant-garde short movies made by some of the most relevant names in the history of film-making, such as Eisenstein or Polanski. Silvania put music for Maya Deren´s wonderful "Meshes in the Afternoon". A year later, the Festival along with label Cosmos released the results of that brilliant idea on a CD.
At the same time, Silvania published their new album, "Naves Sin Puertos", a new step forward in their quest for beauty in abstract electronica, the one that joins Brian Eno and Autechre. The album was critically acclaimed by most Spanish pop and techno magazines. In May 1999 Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings release a CD by Radio, a collaboration between Silvania and Carlos Ordoñez (Prozack, Gauss), in an attempt to blend the ethereal forms of the first with the martial rhythms of Prozack.
On the same year Silvania take part in one of the projects of Land Art/El Apeadero operation center. In this environment several artists created assorted sculpture works along different points of the "Camino de Santiago" (Galicia). Among these artists we can find Virginia Calvo, whose project "Dríades" consists in the construction of iron sculptures fixed to the trees planted throughout a stage of the Santiago walk. Silvania created some music inspired in Virginia's sculptures, and that music will be released on a CD during 2001. Their collaboration with Spanish multimedia artist Ana Laura Alaez must also be mentioned.
Cocó and Mario plans are to leave the name Silvania for this kind of performances related to art and soundtracks, and keep on recording under a new name: Cielo. Their new project is much more pop-oriented, including the use of vocals after a long time of making instrumental music.

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• Miel Nube Hiel (Maxi, Experience Records, 1992)
• En cielo de océano (LP/CD, Elefant, 1994)
• Paisaje III (LP/CD, Elefant, 1995)
• Avalovara (Single, Elefant, 1996)
• Galax Trax (Maxi, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1996, remixes by Locust, Vanguard and Prozack)
• Delay Tambor (CD, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1996, remixes by Locust, Scorn, Seefeel, Scanner and Autechre)
• Aero (Single, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1996)
• Suprematiz (Maxi, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1997)
• Juniperfin (Doble-LP/CD, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1997)
• Naves Sin Puertos (CD, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings,1998)
  
  Radio:
  
  
• Radio (CD, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1999)
• El aire está vivo (LP, Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 2000)
  
  Cielo:
  
  
• Vamos a caminar (CD-Single, Elefant, 2001)
• 2001 - 16 años (Patricia) (CD-Single, Elefant, 2001)
  

"They produce lyrical and baroque music, atmospheric and hypnotic." (Rafa Cervera - EL PAIS DE LAS TENTACIONES)

"One of best records of techno and electronic music that never I have been able to enjoy, as good as any thing of LFO or Mouse On Mars." (Jesús LLorente - SPIRAL)

" 'Juniperfin' emphasizes like all coherent and tremendously effective one that demonstrates the personality and intransferibilidad of the music of Silvania: for or or badly, new paragraph in the state electronic scene." (Javier Blánquez - VOICE)