Arriving bright and early at the Barracks usually allows you to catch the last of the evening sun, but tonight, heavy cloud put paid to that ambition. But it did allow me to catch Matt Levinson, playing under his own name rather than his nom de vinyl of Calico. Had he been playing as Calico, I would have observed that it doesn’t take long to cotton on to the fact that this he is a DJ cut from a different cloth. I would have observed that he was expertly canvassing a variety of musical styles, and that if you wanted to seersucker DJ, it wouldn’t be this one. But as he was playing as Matt Levinson, I have to talk about the music instead. He started off with a little jazz, and then went cinematic – not world music, but worldly music, or to borrow a line from somewhere, music from home, if you live in the world. It was an excellent soundtrack to watch the crowd gently rolling in, and Levinson’s later interlude sets between the live acts confirmed what an excellent choice he was to play this gig.

well done.

chris