Coconut Hotel is an album originally recorded in 1967 by the American avant rock band Red Krayola.
The intent was for it to be the band's second album after the release of The Parable of Arable Land, but it was rejected and shelved indefinitely by International Artists.
We recorded a second album, Coconut Hotel, which the label didn't like at all, which was this abstract music, the most extreme version of the logic that we could conceive of at that time, and also answered to our needs.
"[6]For Coconut Hotel, Mayo Thompson, Steve Cunningham and Frederick Barthelme returned to Andrus studio in Houston.
"[8] Richie Unterberger of AllMusic, wrote: "This has so little commercial potential that it makes Zappa's Lumpy Gravy sound like AM radio fodder" also adding, "It's totally uncompromising, and rather wearisome, to be honest.