Tarkovsky (The Second Stop is Jupiter)

Album: Banga (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Smith explained during an album playback that this is, "a jam off a Sun-Ra phrase, 'The Second Stop Is Jupiter.'" She added: It's named after Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Ivan's Childhood, the most beautiful movie about war.
  • Both Smith's children from her marriage to Fred "Sonic" Smith - Jackson and Jesse Paris - play on this track. Jackson, who would go on to marry The White Stripes drummer Meg White, contributes guitar and Jess the piano.

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