Tender / Wading finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, in the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing, recording, and returning to a patch of his homeland and identity, one act of sympathetic care informing the next. Constructed primarily on piano and clarinet, and then embellished with guitar, modular synthesizer, percussion, and field recordings captured around the perimeter of his home, the album is a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming home, even if home has changed.

TRACKLIST:

A1. The Garden Spot

A2. Witch Grass

A3. Chinook

A4. Wading The Plain

A5. Open Space Properties

B1. Telegraph Weed Waltz

B2. Fracking Starlite

B3. Field House Deer (Mice)

B4. Tender Of Land