The start of a new album! This is the opening piece to the second volume of the Yogurt Original Image Soundtrack collection! After drawing out the cover art for the album, I knew I needed to arrange a piece that matched the cover art, something airy and very open, complete with matching sounds of nature. Borrowing the original Yogurt melody, I managed to twist it around to fit the new opening arrangement.

A new piece from me! This one is most definitely related to the Yogurt Short Comics series. It’s another theme related to Risa and her computer geekiness. Throw in cute sounds and somewhat chiptune noises, and we have another piece that paints Risa doing her everyday thing.

A new piece for Yogurt OST Vol.2! A rather simple, improvised piano piece. There’s a scene that I imagined involving Yogurt’s dad cracking open an old piano decorated with photographic mementos of his family, as well as his late wife. After not having played anything in a long time, he taps a couple keys to find that it’s still surprisingly in-tune. He softly plays into the evening, piecing together what he recalls from a time long passed.

A very simple, cutesy piece for Yogurt! It’s not quite a character theme, but when putting this piece together, it’s hard not to imagine Yogurt doing something cute. It’s not perfect, but it definitely feels fun and rather innocent.

A very slow improvised piano and violin piece. Every once in a blue moon, I take the Yogurt series on a more heartfelt, sincere direction. I show you some of Yogurt’s deepest thoughts and feelings. This piece in particular was inspired by a summer chapter of comics involving Yogurt watching the fireworks and recalling a familiar past. It’s the little moments like this, outside all of the slice-of-life hijinks, that really gives my series a little more depth. There’s so much going on within the characters that I’m not showing in the comics.

A somewhat more airy, dramatic piece for the Yogurt soundtrack. It’s kind of hard to picture where exactly I can see this in the Yogurt series, but it’s definitely a one time thing. If anything, I can kind of picture a scenario of a sunrise over the horizon.

Another piece for the second Yogurt Original Image Soundtrack! A simple piano and strings piece to help illustrate the slower paced, nostalgic moments that Yogurt tends to have throughout the series. Not quite Yogurt in deep thought, in fact, quite the opposite. I can imagine Yogurt spacing out as she lets feelings of nostalgia take over.

A fun filler piano piece. For the Yogurt soundtrack, you can’t really get enough of these simpler, playful pieces, especially since my comic series is chocked full of silly moments between my characters. It’s also a nice break between the melancholic and dramatic pieces in the album.

Another simple piece for the Yogurt OST! This one is a cute one with xylophones in it. It doesn’t go with any one scene in my comics in particular, but I can imagine that it’ll work well for those cute moments where my characters act like they’re each other’s siblings or something. That or when actual siblings show up.

A new piece for the Yogurt OST! This one was a lot of fun to make. It has a vaguely ballroom dance feel to it. With a name like mansion, you’d think that it would be fitting for Olivia’s McMansion, but I think it fits more with the somewhat haunted mansion venue than anything else. I’ll leave it up to the imagination. If the piece ever gets used in a Yogurt scene, those would be the first places to hear it.

Ah. It’s been a while since my last piece. There have been some fairly emotional chapters that took place since my last piece. I figured that I can have another slower, more emotional piece. It’s not particularly fresh, but I have been playing around with some new string samples in this one. In my mind, I was kind of imagining the chapter about Yogurt’s Mother’s passing. The name of this piece is the very same name as the short picture book that Yogurt and Berry made for Yogurt’s Mother. The melody for this piece has been borrowed from my first volume’s track “Family”.

Here’s a fairly laid back piece. A bit of guitar, piano, and a flute! It’s quite soft and whispery. In some ways, it’s almost like the piece “Journey” from my first album. I can especially hear something like this in the Yogurt series when it approaches the more sentimental chapters. With the end of high school just around the corner by Vol.6, I picture a lot of rather soft moments.

The Yogurt theme, but accompanied by an orchestra. If you haven’t read the comics already, the Childhood Arc of the series has reached the climax, with Yogurt confessing her feelings to her childhood friend, Gabriel. To celebrate, I wanted to put together a music piece of Yogurt’s theme in its full glory accompanied by violins, cellos, brass and horns and the likes. If you listen carefully, you’ll also catch Gabriel’s subtle theme, the piece called “Childhood Friend”. It kind of blends in with Yogurt’s theme nicely, which I think matches pretty well with the setting it’s based off.

The closing piece for Yogurt Original Image Soundtrack Vol.2. It closes up the very same way that the series opens up in, by returning back to the windy countryside filled with nature and all. The Yogurt theme can be heard throughout the piece. Unchanging.

Surprise, surprise! The very first piece to start the Yogurt OST album is none other than Yogurt’s theme, played live in one go by our very own, YogurtM (Lee Cheong Loong). Digital music creation has never been my strong point, but I have played piano enough to compose my very own pieces, however simple they may be. While I may be responsible for composing the basic melodies of several pieces in the album, it wouldn’t feel quite right if I myself didn’t play a piece in my very own album. So I’ve performed a live recording of Yogurt’s theme as the opening piece to the soundtrack!

The rain continues to pour… Here’s another Yogurt OST piece, once again, composed and arranged by your very own YogurtM (Lee Cheong Loong)! Inspired by the rainy days, the piece aims to capture the calmness in rainstorms, something that Yogurt has grown very fond of (minus thunder and lightning). Even Yogurt’s theme can be heard throughout this piece. This was the first time I’ve composed digital music using more than just the piano. Learning to use music software has always been daunting for me, but now that I’m committed to finishing a soundtrack, I’ll have to get to it.

Here’s another full track from the upcoming Yogurt Original Image Soundtrack! The original melody was composed several years back, but with the help of composer Paul Cecchetti in reimagining and arranging the piece, we are able to bring you a piece much closer to what I had imagined years back. This playful, light-hearted piece was inspired by the characters Risa and Terry, as well as any antics that follow. In a way, it’s their theme song!

This piece is a re-imagining by Paul of a composition that I’ve made several years back called, “A Beginning“. This new reprised version was meant to capture the feelings I’ve imagined back when Yogurt visited the mountains with her father, a significant point in Yogurt’s life. Here’s another tidbit: This was first piece arranged for the soundtrack, which dictated whether or not I was going to commit to producing a soundtrack.

Here’s a piece played by, you’ve guessed it, Yogurt and Berry! Together, they play their melodica and recorder (See Picture), instruments that many have grown up with in their childhood! The piece starts off with them playing “Hot Cross Buns”, a nursery rhyme that every kid knew how to play during my childhood. Of course, after Yogurt and Berry got the hang of it, they went off and made sweet, sweet music together.

It was nice having this in here. The point of image albums is that they paint a picture of the characters and stories that you just can’t achieve by writing or drawing comics. By matching the piece to the illustration I’ve drawn of them, the characters feel that much more alive.

Another piece arranged and composed by myself! This piece was heavily inspired by classic military marching bands, fifes, and drums. When Yogurt was training Berry how to swim, something like this piece came to mind. Not only that, but generally anywhere in my comics where characters are training each other, I would hear this kind of music. You could also imagine Yogurt and her friends about to embark on a hiking trip or something.

Composing music digitally is certainly quite a bit of fun, even if some of these pieces are simple. The idea of practically having an orchestra at my fingertips is still something that needs a bit of getting used to. Good instruments are pricey, but they are totally worth having in your arsenal.

Here’s something a little more waltzy and simple. Essentially, it’s just the Yogurt theme again tied together to fit a triple metre, for that extra waltzy feel. The scenarios I imagine with this piece are generally light and cutesy moments, like Yogurt walking on leaves, or Chloe clinging to her brother. Not a very special piece, but essential nonetheless.

To no surprise, this track was inspired by Risa’s character. In the comics, Risa has been shown to be up to date in the latest of electronics, as well as being someone who spends much of her time doing relatively geeky things compared to the other characters in the series. I’d imagine this simple 8-bit styled piece to play whenever Risa flexes her geekiness in any way, whether it’s showing Yogurt how to use a smartphone, or raging away on imageboards on the internet.

Another piece! This one combines a little bit of electronic sounds together with acoustic instruments, something a tad bit different than the rest of the soundtrack. This piece uses the same melody from track 3, “Commute”, and for a good reason. I imagine this piece when Yogurt is travelling, whether it’s in a car racing down the highway, or in an airplane travelling overseas.

A new piece from Paul Cecchetti for the Yogurt Original Image Soundtrack! This is a lounge jazz rearrangement of Risa and Terry’s theme, which was track 4, Just Kidding. The more relaxing atmosphere of the piece was more to reflect Terry’s laidback character, as opposed to the childish Risa. I imagine this piece whenever Terry is prepping or cooking meals and dishes, but it could also be used when Terry is kicking back and relaxing.

Another simple and cutesy piece! In my mind, Yogurt and Berry are back again to play the melodica and recorder, only this time, they are playing along with me! It’s easy to imagine a piece like this being used for any cutesy moment in the comic series. I definitely can hear this while Yogurt is having her silly moments, like her building a tower of yogurt cups, or trading food with Berry.

This takes me back. This piece is a refreshed arrangement of a piece taken from the old Yogurt recordings. It is based off the improvised piece called “Berry”. Of course, over the years, the main theme solidified into what is now used in this arrangement.

In a way, it is Berry’s theme, but not entirely. It’s more like Berry’s theme as thought of from Yogurt’s point of view. In fact, this piece borrows a lot from Yogurt’s theme. By all means, I’m no pianist, but I’ve been meaning to refresh this piece for a long time, so it’s nice to hear it again outside of a cruddy microphone recording.

A new addition to the Yogurt OST! A slow, soft piano and violin piece for Yogurt. As the series progresses, the story will focus more on Yogurt. More often than not, Yogurt looks back and recalls certain memories that she holds dear. For the more subtle, sentimental memories, I’d imagine a piece like this would be fitting.

A slow, soft, and very simple piano and violin piece. It starts off with a very whispery piano before the violin and piano duo cuts in. As the name suggests, I’d imagine this piece to kind of paint the gentle moments in the comics, such as when Yogurt went stargazing with her friends.

Another slow, waltzy piano and viola piece. The piece borrows a lot of themes from my previous Yogurt arrangements, and it still manages to sound like a different track. I can easily imagine the piece to paint a picture of Yogurt and Berry going on a regular outing together, which happens more often than not whenever her friends don’t quite have anything planned.

I was playing around with some 8-bit sounding chip noises, and I got around to mixing it up with some acoustic instruments. The result is something that actually sounds fun to my ears. Incredibly simple, and nothing over the top. I can imagine Yogurt and her friends just hanging out and having fun. With a bunch of 8-bit sounds, you can almost picture Risa driving the group.

Now this takes me back. This piece is actually a rearrangement of a piece that I recorded many years back as part of the Yogurt Image Pieces. It was originally under the title “School”, but seeing how we already have a more fitting piece for the schoolyard, I’ve opted to change it. Nothing really special, but hearing an older piece come to life with better instruments is always interesting.

In my mind, this is clearly a piece for Yogurt. The scenario that comes to mind would be the stargazing scene during Yogurt’s camping trip.

Back to the beginning, where it all began. This is the original full arrangement of Yogurt’s Theme, as I have been playing for several years. No, it’s not quite like the very first track in the album, since that was a rearranged intro piece. While the basic themes were transposed and used as foundations for several pieces in the album, there hasn’t been a track in the album that captured the original Yogurt’s Theme in its most raw and basic form. So, the last two pieces in the album will be just be that, Yogurt’s Theme.