Emahoy distributed the tracks on Souvenirs on homemade CD-Rs during her lifetime, and the album was compiled and posthumously reissued by US label Mississippi Records in February 2024.

[2] Emahoy died in March 2023 at the age of 99,[4] and the recordings on Souvenirs were found among boxes of cassette tapes she had left in her cell at the Kidane Mehret Church.

[1] In 1984 Emahoy's mother died and she left Ethiopia, and eventually settled in the Kidane Mehret Church in Jerusalem, where she lived for the rest of her life.

[2] In a review for The Quietus Jakub Knera called Souvenirs "a document of exile and war made by a virtuoso, mesmerising pianist in supposed privacy.

"[1] Jim Hickson of Songlines called Souvenirs a "special, touching album" but said that "this set doesn’t quite give the revelatory, otherworldly experience of Tsege-Mariam’s solo piano works.