Clara Joy is an artist-musician-songwriter and 'downtown' organizer based in New York City. She began recording music in her teens in 2015, earning critical acclaim for numerous self-released song collections. Eschewing band culture, she appears alone onstage while also inciting multi-artist concerts in the streets of NYC. Clara is the granddaughter of Alison Knowles, one of the founding members of the 1960s' Fluxus movement. She is also the subject of the documentary 'Part of Something' (2021) by Sophia Johnson.

Clara's 2025 debut Shimmy-Disc LP 'WHAT WE HAVE NOW' was recorded in her NYC home over the course of several years, and was co-produced with Kramer, who completed the LP at his studio in North Carolina.

'WHAT WE HAVE NOW' is (in Kramer's own words) ...
"...what we have all been waiting for since the passing of Daniel Johnston - a new performer who sees and hears the world around her, agonizes over its endless parade of absurdities, and responds by setting out to create art that transcends itself and conveys the kind of love and optimism that helps us to survive the maelstroms. In short, Clara Joy's artistry is miraculous in every way, and in every sense of the word. It's embedded in her genes, and this debut LP bears only a hint of what's to come. There's just no telling where this brave young artist will take us."