Who's up for an old Soviet Union propoganda tune? From a ballet?
"Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance is from his 1942 ballet Gayane. On a collective farm, the young woman Gayane’s husband is reprehensible (a kidnapper, arsonist and drunkard). The Red Army Border Guard helps solve the farm’s problems, and Gayane’s too, and she now marries the noble leader of the Guards. The marriage features celebratory regional dances." And one off those dances would be this, the Sabre Dance.
Wonder how the whole red guard marriage thing worked out?
There are so many great covers of this dance out there, Woody Herman's big band jazz from 1948 is one of the best.
My bleepy version is played mostly on 5 Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators - Sub, KO, Office, Megaman and Factory, but with the slower second section played on the Woovebox.
Also featuring a special guest appearance from another tune entirely.