[Editor's Note: Today is the 1st anniversary of the Amie Street Blog! To celebrate we've decided to re-post our very first entry -- a brief and lucid, albeit deft, piece on a band we still love: One Ring Zero. Enjoy a stroll down memory lane.]

One Ring Zero brought its big-top contortionist anthems to Amie Street this week. ORZ is the dynamic-duo of Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, indie-alt. ringleaders from Brooklyn. They brought us only two tracks (please sirs, more), but we can't argue with the dynamic strangeness of Natty Man Blues (

) and Here Come The Mannequins (). According to band bios, Michael plays the theremin, Joshua plays the accordion, both play the claviola and employ an instrumental compendium including the toy piano, the melodica, the metallophone, the jones-O-phone, the cajon, and so on. Also, they both sing.

"Natty," written by Paul Auster, comes from the 2004 release As Smart As We Are, a literary collaboration/album featuring song lyrics by several other acclaimed contemporary authors. "Mannequins" is the single off their August 2006 release Wake Them Up.

Buy and REC these golden indies y'all.