“If it’s not my mom, it’s Jemima or my dad,” Kirke said. She’ll have plenty of backup around, though, in the crowd.
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“I’ve definitely gone from a show, where I’m in full makeup, the whole thing, straight to a birth, and I’ve come home from those births being like, I don’t know if I can do this anymore. “It’s been tough being a musician and trying to get projects out there, because I’m going to be playing shows at 10 at night, when the moms are relaxed,” Kirke said. Now, Kirke is officially off-duty for the first time in ages-just in time for the record release, and for the tour that follows it. At the time, she was still on call for the seven families she’s working with this summer. “As the collective grew, I was able to let go of kind of raising my doula baby and focus more on music, because I was really missing it at that point,” Kirke said. The explosion of her business has actually helped Kirke to revisit the career she put on pause. If there’s anyone who could get away without the help, though, it’s likely Kirke, who’s also worked as a doula for the last eight years, ever since her own “very traumatic” birth finally pushed her to pursue her “secret wish to become a midwife.” Within a year, her personal practice had evolved into Carriage House Birth, a doula collective and agency that Kirke still co-owns, and that’s expanding to Austin (and even publishing a book) next year. I just needed to get these words out, you know?” This wasn’t about getting the record deal. “It was just really therapeutic for me to write these songs, like a cathartic experience,” she said.
In response, Kirke decided to throw all of herself into the recording studio-the “most transparent I’ve ever been in music.” This time around, her deeply personal lyrics stem directly from stories she’s told Temple over the course of their long friendship.
“It was kind of all or nothing,” Kirke said of the album, Beyond Waves, which was co-written by Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic and produced by Joan Wasser of Joan As Police Woman during a two-year long frenzy when Kirke, 34, felt that “a career in music was going to pass me by.” And now that Cassius is eight years old, Kirke, to her delight, is finally able to manage both: This Friday, almost three decades after she first started sat down at the piano, Kirke is at last releasing her debut solo album, a collection of 11 synth-driven songs that showcase how she’s “come into own” as an artist, with a folky, bohemian sound. It was during that time off that Kirke also found out she was pregnant, at which point her son Cassius, rather than music, became her top priority-not that she ever exactly abandoned the latter. “Something in me knew I needed to take a step back to come back at it on my terms.” Instead, working and partying with famous artists, she recalled, “kind of scared me off.” So when she returned from touring and was about to finish recording with Ronson, she instead decided to take a break: “Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn’t really writing the songs-I didn’t really think I had a voice,” she recalled. These heady developments should have launched Kirke’s career. A 17-year-old Kirke had solo gigs at venues like Joe’s Pub and the Knitting Factory by the time she was in her early twenties, Kirke was recording with Mark Ronson not long after that, Kirke’s band DOMINO began touring with the likes of Lily Allen and Gang of Four. Kirke first started writing her own songs at home to play her father, and with a move from England to New York-where she attended the famous performing arts school LaGuardia High-that became a full-fledged career. “There was always music and always musicians in and out.”
“We moved so much, but in every house we ever had, there was always a piano,” Kirke recalled earlier this summer.
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That was true no matter where the family moved, which was something they did frequently with Domino’s father, the drummer Simon Kirke, always on the road with his bands Free and Bad Company.ĭomino didn’t love how the rock star lifestyle often uprooted the family, bringing them everywhere from London, where the sisters were raised, to Brooklyn, where they eventually ended up, but it did ultimately foster her own career. Growing up, her mother, the interior designer Lorraine Kirke, always fostered her children’s bohemian proclivities, including art studios for Domino’s sister Jemima Kirke, of Girls fame, or the acting career of their sister Lola. Lowering the volume is new for Kirke, who’s been a musician practically her entire life, but at-home studios have been a constant. She was calling from Brooklyn, and explaining that she and her new husband, Penn Badgley, still have to keep the racket down in the recording studio they now share at home in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, along with Kirke’s eight-year-old son Cassius. “I have very old neighbors,” Domino Kirke said with a laugh.
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