MONO
My Story, The Buraku Story TEMPORARY RESIDENCE
A sensitive subject given suitably sonic swaddling.
If there’s one thing that can be said with certainty about MONO’s soundtrack to My Story, The Buraku ory it’s that it sounds exactly like a soundtrack. This Japanese documentary about the Burakumin, a caste of workers often considered “untouchable” because of their occupations – as undertakers, slaughterhouse workers and butchers they’re tainted by death – deals with a sensitive subject, and MONO’s work is suitably delicate, with shifts of mood and momentum that are gentle and gradual. Strings wobble and stretch, sound effects crackle and burr, and it all drifts slowly from one passage to the next in the softest of sonic swaddling.