Ivan Cattaneo
I Grandi Successi

Thanks to the Flashback series, we can get closer to this bizarre singer and songwriter, even if talking about great successes seems excessive to me.

However, two CDs at half the price is always a good deal.

It was the mid-seventies of the last century when this bizarre character appeared in the Italian show business; young, gritty, full of ideas and initiatives, inventor and sole exponent of TUVOG-ART, a sort of multimedia art no longer works made just to be listened to, seen or read, but rather of art where all five senses were involved. Records to smell and paintings to eat, dishes to touch and films to smell, in short, all the senses of man had to be involved in this strange theory that led him to explore various fields, from the phonetic search of the first works to the reissue of the then acclaimed sixties.

This double CD includes excerpts from the first three works of Cattaneo: 'UOAEI' 1975, 'PRIMO SECONDO FRUTTA (IVAN COMPRESO)' from 1977 and 'SUPERIVAN' from 1979, plus L'Elefante è Capovolto? from the first 45 RPM. All published by the brave label Ultima Spiaggia.

POTPOURRI OF TEXTS:

I see my mother's clothes again

OMADA (ADAMO) she thinks
she's a great woman
she takes me and says
you think so too....

.....To paint your factories pink
to warm your jelly-sexes
to burn the fragile veil that divides
normality & madness
we want to live now for the land of pleasure.....

Darling! As far as I'm concerned
I just want to do you!!!

Forget old ideas
about the couple of two or three
real Love is me you
and another thirty-three.....

A Slavic friar
in a Singapore night club
went crazy for our Lord
to then contribute
to the monthly ...annual... collection...

Boys boys boys and boys
from Pianico to Tokyo
from Bergamo to Manhattan
the boys boys boys and boys
wonderful wonderful
wonderful boys,

and even if I disturb you
I shock you!

YOU ARE THE VIRILE GOD
YOU ARE NOT GENIUS

ODIN ODIN
MUSLIM GOD
MAO MOHAMMEDAN
ALL GODS
ARE MALES ONLY.

And now ascend
yes you ascend in love...
I love you
come on, ascend, come up
come in, go in love
and rise and go and rise and you are
a flower that goes crazy
come on, ascend, come up
come in, go...

To a mercenary vibrator
with two full batteries
the monophonic caress
of an emotionless buzz
so I threw away my life
like a needle in a haystack
and the haystack caught fire
at a sad sunset
a sunset of fire
and everyone stood watching
that madman
who wants to burn himself.

AND IT'S EVENTUALLY
THAT YOU WILL BE
WOMAN IN YOUR EYES
YOU SEÑORITA TORERO.

And you can be: SUPERMAN
or SUPERWOMAN or SUPERGAY!
And women and men
in your arms you'll have

dirty flower of sin you
thief mouth of a breath are
a giving body

I love you and you're not there
and you don't exist you... you who are
the love you don't give
I'm inventing you, but you're not
you're only inside.. inside...
inside... inside me.

And your lips will know
how to suck my heart
to make it roll
like a crazy pendulum
and be...

I sing this ITALY
a bit repressed, you know it
where sex & rock 'n' roll
never are...

Surely dog I will be
your dog I will be!
your dog I will be!
NO! DO NOT PUT!
MUZZLES ON BUTTERFLIES
LET THEM FLY
LET US GO CRAZY
CLOSE YOUR EYES
BECAUSE NOW WE ARE MAKING
LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEX SEX SEX SEX