| The Breathing Shadow | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Nightingale |
| Cover: | The Breathing Shadow.jpg |
| Released: | 1995 |
| Studio: | Unisound Studio in Finspång, Sweden |
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| Length: | 53:31 |
| Label: | Black Mark |
| Producer: | Dan Swanö |
| Next Title: | The Closing Chronicles |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
The Breathing Shadow is the first album by the Swedish rock band Nightingale. It was recorded and mixed within a week by Dan Swanö alone at his Unisound Studio; Nightingale did not yet exist as a band, and was simply a solo project by Swanö. This is the only album of Nightingale to use a drum machine (the other albums have Swanö or someone else on drums). The songs "Nightfall Overture" and "The Dreamreader" were re-recorded on the 2004 compilation album, Nightfall Overture.