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2013 debut from the Harlem born and raised rapper

M. Sage - Tender / Wading Vinyl LP audio and effortlessly cool—blurring the lineTender Wading finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, returning to the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing and recording in a patch of his homeland where each act of sympathetic care informs the next. Built primarily on piano and clarinet and embellished with guitar, modular synthesizer, percussion, and field recordings captured around his home, the album is a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming