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I Am Is And Was Music Album
The sonic heartbeat of a raw climb. Album One by C.J. Barembruch moves through recovery, identity, turning 50, and the freedom that comes when you stop apologizing for the life you lived. Grounded in Ubuntu philosophy and the Twelve Hermetic Laws — these are not perfect songs. They are honest ones. Thirteen tracks. One frequency. A life lived out loud.


Rags to Rigs
I Am Is and Was ™ Album One - Track 1 By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ Namaste. 👋 Every empire has a first brick. This song is mine. Rags to Rigs didn’t begin as a song. It began as a decision. Made in a homeless shelter in Calgary, Alberta, by a man who had spent the better part of his life watching everything he built collapse under the weight of addiction, illness, and the kind of pain that doesn’t announce itself — it just slowly takes everything until there is
Chris Barembruch
Apr 244 min read
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