The ambush) is a studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by Mercury Records in 1996.

[1] For this album Battiato changed his songwriting technique, composing most of the music on the guitar and not on the piano.

[3] Among the musicians who collaborated to the album, were David Rhodes, Gavin Harrison, Antonella Ruggiero, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, and Nicola Walker Smith (the wife and collaborator of composer Geoff Smith).

[2][3] The album was dedicated to the Sicilian novelist Gesualdo Bufalino, who had died in June.

[4] The same year, it was released the VHS L'Imboscata Tour 1997, with the songs of the album performed by Battiato in a concert at Forum di Assago on 4 April 1997.