est. in a back room, 1998
We press nothing.
We hoard everything.
Grove & Grain started as a shelf of records in the back of a framing shop. The framing left, the records stayed, and the pencils never went anywhere. Today we sell rare pressings, restore turntables, build valve amplifiers by hand and draw whoever walks in.
We do not run an algorithm. We run a counter, a bench and a room with one armchair. If you want to know what a record sounds like, we will play it. If you want to know what you look like while listening, look at the wall.
- 1998
A back room, two crates and a borrowed idler deck.
- 2004
First valve amp built on the kitchen table. It still works.
- 2011
The wall of ears begins: a customer asks to be drawn.
- 2019
Listening room opens behind the shop. One chair, on purpose.
- 2026
15 portraits pinned, 312 records in the crate.
“A record is a face pressed flat. You put the needle in the eye and it starts talking.”