Name: One Step Forward by Cory Gardener
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: A warm, uplifting instrumental built around layered acoustic guitars and ambient textures. The piece unfolds slowly, blending gentle fingerpicking, soft pads, and organic reverb into a soothing, cinematic atmosphere. Perfect for relaxation, introspection, or a peaceful sunrise moment.

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Tryin to get back into this so we'll see how it goes.  Just a relaxing track that sorta came together without much push.

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"The Pyramid Song" is an ambient instrumental journey through ancient memory and cosmic reflection. Drifting layers of reverberating textures rise like desert heat, while fluid, echoing melodies spiral upward as if climbing forgotten steps of a sacred monument. It’s meditative and haunting—built for twilight moments when time feels like it's folding in on itself.

The Pyramid

A spoken word piece for the age of noise — a folk-tinged rant about misplaced certainty, blind confidence, and the slow crawl of truth. Songs of Progress is part cryptic sermon, part campfire confession, part weary laugh at the madness around us. Delivered raw, minimal, and unpolished — just a voice against the static.

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My Way

An atmospheric acoustic piece.  Two guitars intertwine: one slowly arpeggiating the top strings like a heartbeat, while the other dances up and down the fretboard with slides, hammer-ons, and melodic fragments. The result feels epic yet intimate — like sitting around a campfire under a storm sky, equal parts haunting and uplifting.

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old highs new lows

A slow-driving, ambient reflection on impermanence.
“All Things Change” drifts through the feeling of being lost in time — suspended between what was and what’s becoming. Built on soft pads, subtle percussion, and calm vocals, it’s a reminder that even in stillness, life moves forward.

Perfect for late-night drives, ocean views, and quiet resets.

All Things Change

It may seem like there’s no ending,
just a sky that won’t turn blue.
You keep walking through the echoes,
of everything you thought you knew.

The road bends without warning,
and time forgets your name.
You trace the lines of memory,
and find they’re never quite the same.

The sun sets slow and silent,
but even shadows start to fade.
You breathe, you break, you open —
and somehow, you’re remade.

It may feel like you’re suspended,
between the loss and what remains.
But nothing stays forever still —
and as we know, all things change.

All Things Change

A warm, uplifting instrumental built around layered acoustic guitars and ambient textures. The piece unfolds slowly, blending gentle fingerpicking, soft pads, and organic reverb into a soothing, cinematic atmosphere. Perfect for relaxation, introspection, or a peaceful sunrise moment.

One Step Forward

Cory Gardener

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