The two musicians were about to embark on a tour in Scotland in spring of 2020  when the pandemic quickly cancelled all their gigs (and flights). After a couple of months locked down in Michael’s home on the Scottish coast, they decided to record their late night musical explorations. With the help of a couple 1950’s British broadcast microphones they recorded the album ‘In Der Heym / Down Home’ over the course of a few long evenings, capturing this intimate music without really knowing what would come out, though it was clear that tunes collected by celebrated Jewish-Ukrainian ethnomusicologist Moishe Beregovski would form the core of the material. The result is a captivating and heartfelt collection of music and stories, with a sound as familiar to fans of old time fiddle tunes as it is to klezmer aficionados, rooted in the the intercultural exchange of early 20th century Ukraine and yet completely fresh and with a unique identity in the acoustic/klezmer music scene today.