Today, Aminé shares a live performance video from his new album 13 Months of Sunshine. Filmed in the Addis Skatepark in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this latest visual offering sees the rapper perform a handful of highlights from the album, including “New Flower (feat. Leon Thomas),” “Temptations,” “Arc de Triomphe,” and “13MOS,” while surrounded by the internationally renowned Ethiopian Girl Skaters Crew.

 

 

Released this past May, 13 Months of Sunshine is a play on the 13-month calendar that Aminé’s native Ethiopia and Eritrea follow, as well as a direct reference to the Western marketing campaigns to entice tourists to visit Ethiopia in the 60’s and 70’s. “They came up with this slogan to show people that there was so much more to Ethiopia than what is advertised,” the rapper shared, “I related so heavily to it, because on this album, I am showing that there’s so much more than what everyone assumes about my music—myself included.” Guided by intimate conversations with family members, specifically his father, and the strong ties to his East African heritage, 13 Months of Sunshine sees the rapper reevaluate his meteoric success and the legacy he wants to leave behind through intentional storytelling.

Executive produced by Dahi (Ravyn Lenae, SZA, Kendrick Lamar), every line on the 16-song album passes the “small reading room test” through lyrics that he “would be proud to read, without music and in front of 30 people,” Aminé explains, “Every line had to pass that test.” From the Waxahatchee-featuring indie pop beauty of “History” to the psych-synth invocation of Toro y Moi-assisted album closer “Images” on 13 Months of Sunshine, the rapper presents his most exacting vision to date as well as a ferocious appetite as both a listener and curator of sound.

On the heels of the album’s release this past spring, Aminé announced a tour in support of 13 Months of Sunshine across North America, the United Kingdom and Europe for this Fall. He’ll be kicking off the tour with the second edition of The Best Day Ever Festival taking place September 13th and 14th in his hometown of Portland before taking the music of his new acclaimed album and his storied catalog across the Live Nation-promoted 4-month run.

 

Upcoming Live Dates 

# – support from Lido 

& – support from Sango 

% – support from Tommy Gold 

^ – support from Niko B

9/13 – Portland, OR @ The Best Day Ever Festival

9/14 – Portland, OR @ The Best Day Ever Festival

9/16 – Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater #

9/18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic #

9/19 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater # * 

9/20 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre #

9/23 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues #

9/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall # * 

9/25 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre #

9/27 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium #

9/29 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom #

9/30 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live – Moody Theater #

10/2 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works #

10/3 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy & 

10/5 – New York, NY @ Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage &

10/6 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia &

10/7 – Washington, DC @ Echostage &

10/8 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway &

10/10 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY &

10/11 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY &

10/12 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS &

10/14 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed &

10/16 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit &

10/18 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave/Eagles Club & *

10/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis &

11/24 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre %

11/28 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma %

11/30 – Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel %

12/2 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz Manchester %

12/3 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton %

12/5 – Zurich, CH @ Komplex 457 ^

12/7 – Warsaw, PL @ Progresja ^

12/9 – Frankfurt, DE @ ZOOM Frankfurt ^

12/10 – Hamburg, DE @ Große Freiheit 36 ^

12/11 – Luxembourg, LU @ den Atelier ^

12/12 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max ^

12/14 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt ^

12/15 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max ^

12/16 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall ^

12/19 – Copenhagen, DK @ Falkonersalen ^

12/21 – Stockholm, SE @ Fållan ^

*Non-Live Nation Date

+With Lido

=With Sango

%With Tommy Gold

^With Niko B