Murkok’s “A Forest with Water and Rocks” is nearly five minutes of ambient roil — it is at once soothing and seething, placid and active. It’s almost all gaseous sounds, but they churn at a rapid rate. The result is a sense of heightened awareness, as if a storm is coming in and you’ve just noticed it on the horizon. Slipping through the overwhelming cloud effect are micro shards, like a rain of distilled white noise, and occasional sharp moments, a bell hit hard, a seeming chorus or slammed door heard from deep in the mix, a high tone flying overhead. The track continuously lulls you and alerts you, over and over, often at the same time — a lullaby on a rocky ship.
Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/murkok](https://soundcloud.com/murkok/a-forest-with-water-and-rocks). More from Murkok, aka Ilya Glebov of Vyborg, Rusia, at [murkok.bandcamp.com](https://murkok.bandcamp.com/), and [petroglyphmurkok.wordpress.com](https://petroglyphmurkok.wordpress.com/).