The Breathing Shadow is the debut album from Nightingale

Nightingale (band)

The band's latest album is White Darkness and it was released 4 June 2007.-Line-up:*Dan Swanö : Vocals, guitars, keyboards...

. It was recorded and mixed within the span of a week by Dan Swanö

Dan Swanö

Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.As a multi-instrumentalist he is...

 alone at his Unisound

Unisound

Unisound is a recording studio that used to be in Finspång but was closed down by Dan Swanö it because of his family but it was relocated to Örebro, Sweden into his Home....

 studio. In this album, Nightingale did not yet consist of a band, and was simply a solo project by Dan Swanö. This is the only album of Nightingale to feature a drum machine (the other albums either feature Swanö on drums or someone else on drums). Unlike the hard rock/AOR-orientated direction of later albums, this album showcases the style of goth rock similar to The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company...

. The songs "Nightfall Overture" and "The Dreamreader" were re-recorded on the 2004 compilation album Nightfall Overture.

Track listing

1. "Nightfall Overture" - 8:10
2. "Sleep..." - 4:40
3. "The Dreamreader" - 5:24
4. "Higher Than the Sky" - 6:15
5. "Recovery Opus" - 2:15
6. "The Return to Dreamland" - 3:04
7. "Gypsy Eyes" - 3:38
8. "Alone?" - 6:37
9. "A Lesson in Evil" - 5:53
10. "Eye for an Eye" - 7:22

Credits

Nightingale

• Dan Swanö - vocals, lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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  , rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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  , keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
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  , mixing, mastering