My Story, The Buraku Story (An Original Soundtrack)

My Story, The Buraku Story is Mono's first-ever feature-length motion picture soundtrack. The documentary film explores the discrimination against a group of people – commonly called "the burakumin" – who were classed into lowly groups and segregated from the rest of Japanese society.

This discrimination is not based on race or ethnicity, but rather on place of residence and bloodline, and has existed for centuries – albeit very rarely acknowledged or discussed in Japan. Director Yusaku Mitsuwaka imagined the exemplary score for such a culturally sensitive and significant subject, and idealized Mono to help tell this story through their legendarily cinematic music.

Following their recent experiments with electronic textures infused into their trademark dynamic rock compositions, My Story, The Buraku Story finds Mono at their most understated and elegiac. The songs are largely built around piano, strings, synths, and choral vocal loops. The arrangements are masterworks of understated execution with oversized emotional resonance.

By far Mono's most delicate album, My Story, The Buraku Story is a fitting document of the band's first-ever full-length film soundtrack.