The world is a ghetto : the complete sessions

"Best New Reissue" - "The World Is a Ghetto is a landmark album of '70s funk, one that deserves to be remembered alongside the best work of the Meters, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Sly and the Family Stone. The group's signature sound was amorphous, and the depth of their impact isn't as obvious as that of those bands. But the syncretic funk they forged, which reached its pinnacle on The World Is a Ghetto, is a personal and musical realization of the social harmony they spent their career fighting for".

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"[This release] not only presents a remastered version of War's 1973 classic The World Is a Ghetto but includes previously unheard sessions/jams that show the songs being created.It's a fascinating peek behind the soundproof studio walls where the listener becomes an uninvited observer as the six selections gradually emerge from War's collective creativity ... What becomes clear over the "making of tracks" section is how intertwined these seven multi-racial guys were. The result combined Latin, soul, funk, rock, and even Caribbean influences to yield a whole that, even 50 years later, doesn't sound like anything else".

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