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All tracks are uncut recorded improvisations in the original order of the concert.
The Ambush Party was the first band to emerge from the new Amsterdam impro scene more than six years ago. By now the group has an impressive concert history, having played all over Europe and in South America.
Circus, their second album, is a live recording of their concert in the big circus tent of the renowned Moers Festival in Germany. This recording - in front of an enthusiastic and attentive crowd - captures the band in top form, doing what they do best: composing a concert of entirely improvised music that is, to quote The Irish Times, "impossible to predict and impossible to resist".

The Invisible Acrobats

This year is officially the Misha year.
Mr. Mengelberg would have turned 90 on June 5. His music is still very much alive.
Reason for a party in a musical form.
The Ambush Party is making its humble contribution.
This new album is full of Misha pieces, few originals and Latin American songs; among them very festive danceable songs: Cumbias, Tangos, Kwelas and Callypso grooves.

This would be the 2nd part of the recently released "Ik wil nog niet dood", where the band shows its powers playing mostly original music in the same footsteps that here presents Misha's cosmos.

You know how it is: The Ambush Party have internationally thrashed a violent and brutal improvisational film ("Like a zoo after closing" - Downbeat. "Impossible to predict, Impossible to resist" - The Irish Times) and had a horrible experience.
Blame the Latin American roots of Marcos Baggiani and Natalio Sued. From there they are in the light of the explosion of a hugely danceable improv scene in the Amsterdam nightlife: The Party took over!
OJH
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released February 27, 2025

The Ambush Party

Natalio Sued - tenor sax, clarinet, voice
Harald Austbø - cello, voice
Oscar Jan Hoogland - piano, voice
Marcos Baggiani - drums, voice

produced by The Ambush Party
recording, mixing and mastering: Mark Nieuwenhuis
cover image: Carmen Schabracq

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02 Wij gaan naar de Italiaan

11 Weer is een dag voorbij

03 Pollera Amarilla

01 Rollo 1 : Dos Gardenias

10 Cumbia for Ambush

05 Poor Wheel

08 Een beetje zenuwachtig

04 Cuchi Cunaca

06 Kwela P'Kwana

07 Tabaco y Ron

Natalio Sued (AR) 			tenor sax 
Oscar Jan Hoogland (NL) 	        piano 
Harald Austbø (NO) 		        cello 
Marcos Baggiani (AR) 		drums

In the last few years a new generation of improvisers have made their mark on Amsterdam venues.
The Ambush Party, formed in 2006, is at the forefront of this lively international scene.  The group developed its sound in underground venues and it is now also blasting the audiences on such renowned stages as Bimhuis, Paradiso, North See Jazz Fest, Buenos Aires Jazz Fest, Moers Festival.
Personal styles and sounds inform the improvisations, which balance precariously between individuality and teamwork.

"This international quartet knows no boundaries. All is thrown into its inventive, joyful stew... Faithful to its name and to the circus life, The Ambush Party delivers a wild, engaging ride."
All about Jazz - Eyal Hareuveni 12/3/14

 "Six years ago they've found them self at the vanguard of the Amsterdam improv-scene, displaying and spreading their impressive art of improvisation...
The Ambush Party's music is a melting pot of jazz , world music, avant -garde and neo-classical... You hear influences as broad as Tom Cora, The Ex, Edgar Varèse, Peter Brötzmann, Mick Barr, John Zorn and Misha Mengelberg, but what the group here emits is really completely unique.
It may be difficult to grasp, but once digested you won't let it go. Class!"
Jan Willem Broek - Caleidoscoop - 19/12/13

”The powerful personalities in The Ambush Party belong to the fourth generation of adventurous Dutch improvisers. Instant composing lives on.” - Tim Sprangers: The Volkskrant ****

“The Ambush Party did what it does best: work together as an extemporaneous collective, in search of sound and color…TAP's music was about having fun, and if anyone was being ambushed, it was the audience” - John Kelman: All About Jazz

“Improvising collectively, TAP’s material galloped among references to trance, Dixieland, Klezmer, free jazz, Tango and even opera...a familiarity with the Three Stooges as much as so-called classical chamber music.”- Ken Waxman -NYC Jazz Record- (Moers Fest.)

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