Produced and engineered by James Paul at The Rogue in Toronto, Canada, Crazy Wisdom is the result of a year of playful, creative recording sessions. The mostly acoustic instrumentation, vintage equipment, complex vocals, and analogue recording give it the warmth of a classic pop or folk album. Yet influences as diverse as The Beatles, Philip Glass, Middle Eastern and Indian music and Tin Pan Alley can be heard.
This is a layered, subtle, fresh album that grows on you. One critic wrote that Warren's lyrics are "clever, poignant, offhandedly funny..." They are also ruthlessly intelligent observations on love, urban life, violence, and spiritual searching. Like his main influences John Lennon, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen and Bob Marley, Warren's intent is to put articulate words into melodic songwriting, and not to repeat himself too much.
The contributors on the album include Michael Fabello (Gregory Hoskins and the Stickpeople) on bass, Sean Bryson (The Waltons) drums, Ravi Naimpally (Loreena McKennit, Thomas Handy Trio) percussion, Sarah McElcheran (Damhnait Doyle, The Odds) trumpet, Gene Hardy (Bourbon Tabernacle Choir) sax, Catherine Keenan (Leslie Spit Tree-o) hurdy gurdy, Simone Desilets (Angels of Montenegro) cello, and indie rawk songwriter Dan Bryk (Asshole, an Urban Myth release) on piano/organ, as well as many others.
Vocal contributors to the album include Kathryn Rose (formerly of Wind May Do Damage--check out her CD Every Lurid Detail), Mia Sheard (With Love and Squalor, just released), Jane Miller (Wind May Do Damage), Stephanie Belding and featuring Georgie Donais (49 Acres) as the rivetting pissed off soon-to-be-ex-lover in the song "2 Blind Mice".
Crazy Wisdom
released 1997
Crazy Wisdom
CD $15.00 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003
1. Graveyard of Friends
2. Just Think Big
3. Bug in Amber
4. God is Dead
5. Ever Lovers
6. Call Me
7. 2 Blind Mice
8. Jerusalem
9. Why?
10. Blah Blah Blah 
11. Shame
12. In My Soul
13. November Song