Louder Than The Music

Electro-pop band Ooberfuse have released their new single 'Call My Name' this week, taken from their upcoming new album 'Seventh Wave', due for release in August 2012. The new song came in response to the Catholic Church calling upon the band to write the soundtrack for its new nationwide vocations framework.

Father Christopher Jamison OSB commissioned the band following the global success of their song 'Heart's Cry' which was used as the Church's Youth Anthem for the visit of Pope Benedict XVIth to the UK in September 2010.

"It was a challenge to write a song that captures the essence of something as sacred and as intimate as being spoken to and summoned by God in the deepest recesses of our hearts", says Hal from Ooberfuse. "When God speaks to us he does so in a strange and other worldly language that it is sometimes hard if not altogether impossible to render into intelligible words. His gentle yet persistent call cuts through the clamour and roar of contemporary life treading as softly as dove's footsteps. For some pop music is part of the noise that drowns out the sound of divinity, desensitising us to the transcendent. On the face of it, it seems incongruous that pop music, especially dub-step, should be used to heighten our awareness of God's call to each one of us."

The band's front-woman Cherrie Anderson adds, "Shortly after submitting our song to Father Jamison we discovered that Cheryl Cole plans to release a song with the identical name! This is a weird and uncanny coincidence. Whereas her song is about her lover calling out her name, our song is about God calling out our name summoning us to a higher life in which we fulfill our holy and God-given destinies."

Listen to 'Call My Name' on BandCamp