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CATALOG No. 7

PLACEHOLDER: Elena Voss, proprietor of Grove and Stack Records, in the shop

Elena Voss

Buyer, Reviewer, and Reluctant Proprietor

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We stock what we would play at home.

Miles DavisKind of Blue

2019 Remaster, 180g LP / Columbia, 1959

Last restocked 6 days ago

This record does not need an introduction and I am not going to give it one. What I will say is that the 2019 remaster addressed the slight imbalance in the original stereo mixes that has bothered certain listeners for decades. The new transfer was done from the original three-track masters held at the Library of Congress. If you already own an earlier pressing, this one is still worth hearing on its own terms. The difference shows up mainly in Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly's piano, which sits further forward in the mix without becoming overbearing. If this is your first copy, it is a reasonable place to start, though it will not be your last.

PLACEHOLDER: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue, Vinyl cover

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony OrchestraPromises

Standard LP, first pressing / Luaka Bop, 2021

Last restocked 14 days ago

Recorded before Sanders passed in 2022, this collaboration arrived like it had been waiting a long time to exist. Nine movements, all titled Promises, each one a variation on a single melodic fragment that Floating Points wrote and then handed to Sanders to do what he wanted with. Sanders plays sparse. There are minutes of near-silence on this record that feel earned rather than affected. The London Symphony Orchestra appears in layers rather than as a full ensemble, which keeps the record from becoming orchestral in the wrong sense. I have sold more copies of this record than anything else in the shop since 2021, and mostly to people who do not consider themselves jazz listeners.

PLACEHOLDER: Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra, Promises, Vinyl cover

BroadcastThe Noise Made by People

Original CD pressing, 2000 / Warp Records, 2000

Last restocked 21 days ago

Trish Keenan's voice sitting at the center of everything like a fixed point. I came to this record late and regret it, which is why I carry it now. Broadcast built their sound out of library music, early electronic experimentation, and something no one has been able to name precisely or replicate since. This is not nostalgia music. It sounds like nothing from 2000 and nothing from now. The record arrived after the band had spent years absorbing the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and filtering it through something more personal and harder to place. Keenan died in 2011. The catalog has been in and out of print. This pressing is clean and comes with the original liner notes.

PLACEHOLDER: Broadcast, The Noise Made by People, CD cover

Arthur RussellWorld of Echo

Reissue LP, 2004 Rough Trade / Rough Trade, 1986

Last restocked 9 days ago

A cello and a vocal and a reverb unit and not much else. Russell made this record in borrowed studio time in the mid-1980s between his club productions at Studio 54 and his work with the Flying Hearts country band. The two halves of his career rarely overlapped this directly. The record was not well distributed during his lifetime and received serious attention only after his death in 1992. The 2004 Rough Trade reissue is faithful. I play the opening of side one when people ask me what the shop is about. Most of them stay for the rest of the record.

PLACEHOLDER: Arthur Russell, World of Echo, Vinyl cover

KhruangbinCon Todo El Mundo

Standard LP, black vinyl / Dead Oceans, 2018

Last restocked 3 days ago

The second album and the one I reach for first when someone asks where to start with this band. The trio draws from cumbia, Thai funk, and American soul without making a point of any of it. The bass is the thing. Laura Lee's bass on this record rewires how you hear the instrument's role in a mix. Everything else orbits it. The guitar and drums are precise but they are there in service of the rhythm section, not the other way around. We have the standard black pressing in stock. The translucent gold pressing a distributor sent by mistake is also available while it lasts. That one looks better on a shelf but sounds identical.

PLACEHOLDER: Khruangbin, Con Todo El Mundo, Vinyl cover

About the Shop

PLACEHOLDER: Grove and Stack record shop interior, Degraw Street, Brooklyn

Grove & Stack opened on Degraw Street in November 2019. One room, one person, no algorithm. We carry records we would play at home. Everything on the shelf has been heard, considered, and written about by the person who bought it. If we cannot say something specific about a record, it does not make the cut. The shop is small. The selections are intentional. We are open Tuesday through Sunday.

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412 Degraw Street

Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tue, Wed, Thu: Noon to 7pm

Fri, Sat: 11am to 8pm

Sun: Noon to 5pm

Mon: Closed

Grove & Stack Records, LLC. Est. 2019. Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY.

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