I hope I am getting the band name correct and that they weren’t called something else. I found this account by a Duncan Forgan that has 19 tracks recorded between 1995 and 1999 by what looks like a band called The Cairo Years.
The quality is varied, but there are some gems not to be missed like “Summer Starts Here” or “City Sickness”.
The tracks available are: “Girl You’ll Never Know”, “Telling Jokes at the Astral Flights”, “Can’t Recall”, “The Other Side of Summer”, “Over You”, “Am I Bothering You?”, “City Sickness”, “Summer Starts Here”, “What’s the Gain Girl?”, “Warm Sun Rising”, “Papal Confession”, “Here’s To My Life”, “Lifeboat”, “New Kensington Stroll”, “The Fast Society”, “15 Years”, “Amsterdam Canals”, “Thirteen” and “Estrangement Song”.
All of them were uploaded 5 years ago. Aside from these songs there are a few more but they are not tagged as The Cairo Years. Maybe these were other projects of Duncan.
I do think I know what is Duncan doing these days. He seems to be living and working in Southeast Asia, mainly in Bangkok. He is a writer and broadcaster, especially about Asian travel, culture and cuisine, for different publications including TIME, Esquire and The Guardian. Previously he had been a features writer for newspapers in Scotland (where he is from) and an editor of travel guides in the Middle East.
He has plenty of articles online, here is one about Japan’s Nothern Soul club scene.
I am just going through some of them. I wonder then about these songs. If he was based in the Middle East at some point. Maybe “The Cairo Years” may mean recordings he did while he was living in Cairo? Who knows. It is a possibility. Or just a coincidence. Don’t know if he lived there.
Many questions are to be answered, but it is really cool to see someone that has worked for news organizations and has good music taste, feels very close at home.
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